Power Systems

The facts that really matter

There were over 1100 Power migrations during 2010, with more than 90% from Sun and HP customers (including x86 consolidations). In 2010 alone, Power Systems achieved nearly 400 competitive migrations.

Power is performance redefined.

Power Systems is smarter computing.

Transform your business with an experienced partner.

Smarter computing with IBM Power Systems is realised through an architected transformation of IT via:

Big data & information integration
Optimised systems
Service delivery / cloud

Don’t hinder your business’ potential with an outdated infrastructure any longer. IBM has the skills and technology to help you plan, implement and maintain your infrastructure, and can do so on a budget you can trust. By taking a comprehensive view of IT operations, IBM can help you transform your IT infrastructure into an agile Smarter Computing operation to help you meet your strategic goals now and in the future.

Market-leading IBM Power Systems is a commercially broad platform, offering industry-leading performance, stable/committed roadmap, best-of-breed virtualisation and energy efficiency. And these systems have a track record — protecting investments in applications, skills and technology resources.

Only IBM can offer workload optimisation innovations today for balanced systems design that give you the confidence and flexibility to select the platform that best suits your business requirements now and in the future. And the IBM Migration Factory provides a team of experts who have over 25 years of know-how in seamlessly moving customers to IBM systems.

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Clabby Analytics – Itanium: Slip Sliding Away (398KB)
On March 22nd, 2011, Oracle announced that it would stop development of all of its software on the Itanium platform. Oracle will provide support for existing Oracle/Itanium customers on today’s products — but customers looking to take advantage of future features and functions will be forced to switch platforms

IT COSTS: All client examples cited or described are presented as illustrations of the manner in which some clients have used IBM products and the results they may have achieved. Actual environmental costs and performance characteristics will vary depending on individual client configurations and conditions. PERFORMANCE: www.tpc.org as of 01/26/11 [IBM Power 780 (3 x 64 C)(24 Ch/192 C/768 Th); 10,366,254 tpmC; $1.38/tpmC; avail 10/13/10 v. Oracle SPARC SuperCluster w/T3-4 Servers (27 x 64 C)(108 Ch/1728 C/13824 Th); 30,249,688 tpmC; $1.01/tpmC; avail 6/1/11]. TPC-C is a trademark of Transaction Performance Processing Council. www.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/ as of 01/26/11 [IBM Power 795 (32 P/256 C/1024 Th); 126063 users/2-tier SAP ERP 6.0 pack4/AIX 7.1 + DB2 9.7; cert 2010046 v. Oracle SPARC Enterprise Server M9000 (64 P/256 C/512 Th); 39100 users/2-tier SAP ERP 6.0/Solaris 10, Oracle 10g; cert 2008042]. SAP is a registered trademark of SAP AG in Germany and several other countries. IBM, the IBM Logos, ibm.com, Power Systems and the planet icon are trademarks of IBM Corp registered in many jurisdictions worldwide. A current list of IBM trademarks is available on the Web at "Copyright and trademark information" at www.ibm.com/legal/copytrade.shtml. Other product and service names might be trademarks of IBM or other companies. © Copyright IBM Australia Limited 2011 ABN 79 000 024 733. © Copyright IBM Corporation 2011. All Rights Reserved.