IBM Delivering Virtualisation and Cloud

CIOs of many organisations are embracing smarter computing by making the move towards virtualisation and cloud. In the 2011 Essential CIO study, 76% interviewed across Australia and New Zealand cited virtualisation as a key component for forward planning. In the same study, 60% also identified cloud as a key business priority – interestingly, in 2010, it didn’t even rank.

Cloud technology leader IBM, has created a ‘power couple’ in the IBM Storwize V7000 and IBM Power Systems POWER7 solution. When used together, it’s possible to fast track up to 100% virtualisation and significantly reduce energy costs by as much as 90%. And by introducing IBM Systems Director into the equation, migrating to the cloud can be essentially seamless.

For a limited time experience the long-term benefits of IBM Power SystemsTM POWER7 together with IBM Storwize V7000, and save up to 67%

• Gartner White paper: Virtualisation Reality

Virtualisation continues to deliver IT savings and efficiencies, and is the foundation for many IT initiatives. This research focuses on the impact of virtualisation on traditional IT areas of servers, desktops, storage and management, as well as the future impact and planning aspects.

Edison Group White paper: IBM PowerVM Virtualisation technology on IBM Power7 Systems

Today’s business organizations need to rein in IT costs, but without sacrificing performance, security, reliability, and flexibility. A new era has emerged in which it is now possible, through intelligent and strategic use of new and/or advanced technology, to achieve breakthrough economics, considerably reducing the cost of delivering the workloads central to a business’s operation.

• Edison Group - IBM PowerVM Virtualisation (0.99MB)

IDC White paper: End-to-End Virtualisation: A Holistic Approach for a Dynamic Environment

Server virtualisation has been the catalyst for the 3.0 era, and it has driven transformation into every aspect of the datacenter, such as storage, networking, and management. The virtualisation of all aspects of the data center, not just compute, will create the foundation for the cloud model of computing. Achieving this requires a holistic approach to virtualisation and the ongoing management in order to create a unified, dynamic, and agile next-generation computing environment

• Edison Group - IDC Virt White Paper (557KB)

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• Start your virtualisation journey with IBM

  In an increasingly connected world, the number of transactions and volume of information put ever increasing demands on your IT infrastructure. Customers are seeking a flexible IT infrastructure that can keep pace with demand. On a Smarter Planet, organisations are deploying virtualised infrastructures to improve their business agility. virtualisation with integrated service management enables a smarter infrastructure that can help you:

  • Consolidate and share resources, unshackling your physical infrastructure.
  • Bring together new and existing resources to enable a more agile, business-centric infrastructure.
  • Deliver low-cost services where and when needed to meet business goals and objectives.
• Unlock the value from virtualisation with IBM

  With deep expertise, proven methodology and a comprehensive and integrated portfolio of solutions designed to enable and support virtualisation, IBM is uniquely equipped to help you meet these objectives. IBM approaches transformation from a holistic perspective with smarter systems, software and services, enabling virtualisation not only at the platform level, but also across operating systems and middleware to flexibly realign people, processes and technology. The result is a more efficient and effective infrastructure. IBM advantages include:

  • Ability to extend consolidation and virtualisation beyond your machine assets to include storage, networks, desktops and applications to respond to changes in service demands with flexibility.
  • Virtualisation solutions that are hypervisor neutral, giving you the flexibility to integrate IBM hypervisors and other x86 hypervisors without vendor lock-in.
  • Integrated service management providing increased visibility, control and automation for virtualised environments to help you deploy and manage workloads more effectively and efficiently.
  • A consultative approach leveraging experience from thousands of customer engagements to help you define and execute virtualisation projects.
  • Platforms tuned to better support virtualised environments, enabling greater virtual system density and higher performance needed to virtualise demanding production workloads.
  • Rich platform management functions capable of simplifying and unifying the management of physical infrastructure with virtual environments across multiple virtualisation technologies and hardware platforms.
  • Solutions which can be tailored to fit any size business and any business need with a comprehensive portfolio helping to optimise all facets of your business services.
  • Widest variety of deployment models including IBM-hosted, private (behind your firewall) or hybrid cloud delivery models.

  IBM can help you with various aspects of virtualisation and integrated service management based on your unique needs to:

  • Consolidate resources
  • Manage workloads
  • Automate processes
  • Optimise delivery