IBM Power Systems advantages

Highlights

• Deliver services faster, with higher quality and superior economics
• Design optimized systems for specific business services and workloads
• Select the optimal operating environment from AIX, IBM i and Linux
• Consolidate and reduce cost with PowerVM virtualization
• Deliver resiliency without downtime with PowerHA and IBM Storage
• Build systems on the foundation of POWER7 processor technology
• Deploy services on blades, modular servers, and supercomputers

Performance redefined

Everyone knows what ‘performance’ meant for IT in the past. Built on the foundation of POWER7® processor technology, Power Systems™ servers and blades continue to excel and extend industry leadership in these traditional benchmarks of performance.

But the IT landscape is evolving rapidly. And, as processes become more interrelated and complex, IT is being called upon to solve challenging new problems—and implement new projects, both with higher service levels and in a more cost effective manner. IBM has the systems, software and expertise to help clients implement projects that make their IT an enabler of innovation and a catalyst for business change.

Deliver services faster, with higher quality and superior economics

Today’s IT performance means delivering services faster, with higher quality and with superior economics. The emerging measures of IT performance are around agility and the ability to help the business capitalize on new opportunities. IT is measured on providing an infrastructure that can handle rapid growth and manage business risk while meeting higher required service levels. And of course it is expected that new services will be delivered with tighter budget constraints—with IT expected to do more with less and find the lowest cost solutions possible.

Watson and optimized systems

Today, intelligence is increasingly being embedded in every operational process—from supply chain management, to human resources and payroll, to financial, security and risk management. And now, as more of the world becomes instrumented—everything from roadways, power grids, consumer goods and food—businesses need the ability to analyze the “big data” coming from these sources in real time. Optimized systems will increasingly be designed to address the unique needs of specific workloads and big data analytics, combining servers and software with critical skills and domain expertise.

Watson is emblematic of this new approach of optimized systems design in the era of smarter computing. It combines IBM DeepQA analytics software, POWER7 processor-based servers, and innovative skills from IBM Research. Watson was designed to answer Jeopardy! questions posed in natural language in less than three seconds, using massively parallel POWER7 processor performance to execute thousands of complex analytics tasks simultaneously. Watson, however, is not a supercomputer. It uses commercially available IBM Power® 750 servers that are also deployed by thousands of businesses today to run optimized systems for everything from complex analytics to transaction processing.

But Watson’s breakthrough is not in natural language processing alone. Watson represents an impressive leap forward in systems design and analytics. Its IBM DeepQA software pioneers a new kind of analytics for unstructured text and big data. Powered by IBM POWER7 processor technology, Watson is an example of the complex analytics systems that are becoming increasingly common and critical to business success and competitiveness in today’s data-intensive environment.

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Power architecture:

POWER® processor technology is an instruction-set architecture that spans applications from consumer electronics to supercomputers. POWER is built on an open architecture, making it an open ecosystem that supports freedom of design. Learn more about the world of POWER at www.power.org (link resides outside of ibm.com).

POWER7 processors provide the foundation for designing workload optimized systems in conjunction with software and expert domain knowledge. To achieve maximum performance, POWER7 processor-based systems are designed with workload optimizing technologies. For example, Intelligent Threads technology dynamically switches the processor threading mode to deliver optimal performance for different workloads. TurboCore mode also offers the option to optimize the system for frequency and cache utilization delivering the maximum per core performance for database and transaction workloads. Active Memory™ Expansion helps reduce memory costs by enabling physical memory to be logically expanded up to 100 percent for some workloads—such as SAP.

Power is integrated design and development

A totally integrated approach to the design, development, and testing of each and every Power server ensures the resiliency required for today’s IT infrastructure. All POWER7 server models include innovative reliability, availability and serviceability features that help you avoid unplanned downtime. And, with Capacity on Demand, Hot-Node Add and Active Memory Expansion—Power Systems enterprise servers ensure you can keep your most important applications available, even as you add capacity to handle new business demands.

Power Systems are also optimized with the ability to securely run multiple applications on AIX®, IBM i and Linux® operating systems on a single server—so you can manage fewer systems with lower cost and higher utilization. No longer do you need to manage complex and inefficient server farms with each server dedicated to a single application or operating environment. Now you can consolidate workloads and significantly reduce costs throughout your infrastructure, while dramatically improving your ability to meet changing processing demands.

Power Systems Software™ options enable you to manage both physical and virtual environments, including the capability to control data center energy usage and orchestrate processing resources to better meet business goals. And Power solutions are designed to provide you with a road map to continuous availability of mission-critical applications—even when an expected or unexpected interruption occurs.

Today's POWER7 systems combine industry-leading performance, scalability and modularity to enable you to get the most from your investment and build a flexible, responsive infrastructure that easily adapts and grows based on your business needs. With a virtualization hypervisor built into every Power System, all performance benchmarks are achieved in a virtualized environment, unlike competitive systems that can be subject to lower performance when using third-party virtualization software.

These systems also leverage IBM’s mainframe heritage and experience in building the most available UNIX®, IBM i and Linux systems in the industry. POWER processor-based systems have long been known for mainframe-inspired reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features such as First Failure Data Capture. We extended that capability to include Processor Instruction Retry, Alternate Processor Recovery, Partition Availability priority, Live Application Mobility, and Live Partition Mobility. These features are designed to help enable you to eliminate systems related planned and unplanned outages.

Power is modular and scalable servers and blades

IBM has a full range of Power systems from Blades and 2U rack systems to the industry’s most powerful and scalable UNIX system, the Power 795, and the worlds largest Power 775¹ Supercomputer. Each of these systems delivers leadership performance and scalability in its class.

IBM Power 795: The most powerful UNIX system ever with up to 256 processor cores and 8 TB of memory enables capability to consolidate up to 1,000 Virtual Machines.

IBM Power 780: Modular high-end system with up to 64 cores and 2 TB of memory in four nodes delivers leadership flexibility, scalability and resiliency vs. all other competitive UNIX servers.

IBM Power 775: Supercomputer that shares Watson’s DNA and through the worlds highest performance and energy efficiency dramatically reduces project concept to delivery time for the toughest challenges in science.

IBM Power 770: Innovative modular server that provides non-disruptive growth from four to 64 processor cores, all with enterprise class RAS.

IBM Power 755: An ENERGY STAR-qualified high performance computing cluster node, designed for extreme parallel processing with 32 processor cores.

IBM Power 750 Express: ENERGY STAR-qualified for server consolidation and virtualization projects, features one to four processor sockets and six to 32 processor cores. The server used by Watson.

IBM Power 740 Express: For small- to mid-size databases or as a consolidation platform with one or two processor sockets with four to 16 processor cores and 256 GB of memory.

IBM Power 730 Express: Designed for rack to rack consolidations in dense IT environments with two processor sockets and eight to 16 processor cores.

IBM Power 720 Express: Designed for distributed application servers or integrated business solutions with one processor socket and four to eight processor cores.

IBM Power 710 Express: Infrastructure and application servers with one processor socket, and a choice of four to eight processor cores.

IBM BladeCenter PS700, PS701, PS702, PS703, PS704 Express: Cost and energy efficient blades for application workload virtualization with four to 32 processor cores.

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Power is an IBM software stack

Deploying Power Systems Software technologies enables businesses to fully exploit Power Systems servers. Realize the benefits of leadership IBM PowerVM™ virtualization with AIX, IBM i and Linux operating systems options on a single server—as well as IBM PowerHA® for availability, and IBM Systems Director for energy, security and platform management. IBM’s integrated approach to developing the Systems and Systems Software together enables unique benefits that deliver the higher system utilization, availability and flexibility that clients have come to enjoy with Power Systems.

Power is virtualization without limits

Enterprise clients are leveraging virtualization not only to reduce the costs and maximize their IT infrastructure investments but also to provide more flexibility, higher application availability and improve response time to business needs. The unique capabilities of PowerVM are enabling clients to achieve extremely high levels of sustained utilization—80 percent to 90 percent in some cases—while delivering greater flexibility in deploying your virtual machines—all built upon the advanced resiliency features and uncompromising performance of the Power Systems platform.

PowerVM offers Micro-Partitioning® with the ability to run up to 10 partitions per processor core, and dynamically move processor, memory, and I/O resources between partitions to support changing workload requirements. PowerVM Live Partition Mobility enables active partitions to be moved between servers—no matter what size of partition you are running—virtually eliminating application downtime for planned systems maintenance. Live partition mobility can also be used to upgrade workloads between POWER6 and POWER7 processor-based servers without an application outage.

VMControl™ complements PowerVM by providing automated virtualization management that minimizes time to provision virtual machine images and enables management of system pools. With POWER7, PowerVM and VMControl virtualization software supports up to 1,000 virtual machines on a single system, providing massive consolidation capability for exceptional costs savings.

Power is the future of UNIX with AIX

AIX is an open standards-based UNIX operating system designed to comply with the Open Group’s Single UNIX Specification Version 3. AIX exploits decades of IBM technology innovation and is designed to provide the highest level of performance and reliability of any UNIX operating system. According to ITIC’s 2010 survey, AIX scored the highest reliability ratings among 15 different server operating system platforms.¹

According to IDC, Power Systems with AIX leads in worldwide UNIX server revenue share.² In addition, with the introduction of POWER7, there has been an acceleration in client migrations to Power Systems through the IBM Migration Factory in order to take advantage of the exceptional performance, scalability, virtualization and resilience of POWER processor-based systems and Power Systems Software.

The latest AIX 7.1 release features new cluster-aware integration with PowerHA, as well the ability to run AIX 5.2 Workload Partitions to facilitate application migration and reuse. The AIX operating system is available in three Editions for a range of capability and flexibility for both mid-sized and large enterprises.

AIX 7 and the previous release, AIX 6, are binary compatible with previous versions of AIX including AIX 5L™. This means that applications that ran on earlier versions will continue to run on AIX 7 or 6—guaranteed.³

Power is total integration with IBM i

IBM i is an integrated operating environment with a more than 20-year reputation for exceptional cost effectiveness, security and business resilience. IBM i integrates a trusted combination of relational DB2® database, security, web services, networking and storage management capabilities. ITG reports that costs to use Power Systems and IBM i 6.1 average 41 percent less than x86 servers and Microsoft® Windows®.⁴

The latest IBM i 7.1 release includes enhanced DB2 support for XML and column-level encryption, automatic movement of hot data to solid-state drives, enhancements to RPG to extend applications to mobile devices and web services, plus enhanced virtualization and resiliency options.

IBM i 6.1 included expanded options for virtualization, upgraded storage and availability management, breakthrough Java™ performance, support for POWER7 and POWER6 and BladeCenter®, and a broad range of middleware and tools to help drive application transformation.

Power is scalable Linux, ready for x86 consolidation

Both Red Hat and Novell SUSE Linux run natively on Power Systems, offering a scalable alternative for open source applications. Reducing x86 server sprawl through consolidation and virtualization is a key priority for many companies today. Linux on Power Systems with PowerVM provides a scalable, virtualized alternative to running Linux on x86 servers.

PowerVM Lx86 cross-platform virtualization technology also enables x86 Linux workloads to run without recompilation and take advantage of the scalability of Power Systems. This means Power Systems clients can immediately benefit from the latest Linux applications.

Power is resiliency without downtime

Power Systems solutions benefit from decades of IBM experience in designing and deploying high availability hardware and software. PowerHA SystemMirror disk clustering solutions are available to help keep your systems—and your business—running 24x7x365.

PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX and IBM i Editions are data center and multisite resiliency solutions designed to help protect critical business applications from outages: planned or unplanned. PowerHA is integrated with cluster aware capabilities in both the AIX and IBM i operating environments. PowerHA pureScale™ technology delivers levels of database scalability and availability unmatched on UNIX or x86 systems, and is offered as a component of DB2 pureScale.

Power is data protection and compliance

IBM offers tools to protect data from threats and unauthorized access on Power servers running AIX, i and Linux workloads. Data encryption capabilities to protect file systems, data and backup are an integral part of the AIX and IBM i operating systems, both of which also support role-based access control. Whether you want to manage the security of your Power servers, or include other elements in your infrastructure—IBM solutions provide intuitive administration that helps you to define, enforce and audit your business security policy.

Power is sustainable IT infrastructure

Many companies are running into floor space and energy challenges in their data center due to the explosion in data and growth in IT applications. Analysts have projected that up to 70% of large enterprise clients will face the need for major changes to their data centers in the next few years. It is becoming critical for these clients to begin to create a more sustainable and cost efficient IT infrastructure. In addition, being socially responsible yields real business benefits. The POWER7 based systems deliver extraordinary new capability to expand an enterprise’s IT capability without expanding their floor space or even energy consumption. As an example the Power 795 delivers over four times the compute capacity of the Power 595 in the same space and energy envelope. POWER7 technology can potentially quadruple the capabilities of a data center without having to change the size, configuration or power and cooling infrastructure. Efficiencies in space, power, costs, and labor as well as the potential for new market opportunities await the company that focuses on building a more sustainable business and IT infrastructure. Enable the sustainability of your business by improving the efficiency of operations, assets and people, while reducing costs, improving your public image, and opening the door to new opportunities.

Power Systems energy management solutions monitor and control energy usage to help you manage energy efficiency in your data center. Each Power server has EnergyScale™ technology built into the POWER7 processor. Through consolidation and virtualization with PowerVM, businesses have realized dramatic energy savings. And with IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™, you can identify trends in your energy usage and thermal profile, turn off processor cores or limit the energy draw across one or a group of Power servers, and track environmental data from applications used to monitor air conditioning units, Uninterruptible Power Supplies and Intelligent Power Distribution Units.

Power is management with automation

With platform management technologies on Power Systems, businesses not only get a complete picture of their systems and how well they are operating, but also the tools to deploy, optimize and maintain these systems at maximum effectiveness and efficiency. The result is optimized workload performance, energy efficiency and cost control. On Power Systems, server virtualization management is integrated with network and storage management for complete resource control.

IBM System Director Editions for Power are sized for every data center. It is simpler than ever for a single operator to manage both physical assets and virtual resources. With IBM Systems Director for platform management and Tivoli® for enterprise service management solutions, Power Systems offer a unified systems management solution that can improve service delivery. VMControl provides automated virtualization management and minimizes the time it takes to provision virtual images and manage system pools.

Leverage “performance plus” by deploying virtualization, availability and management software to fully exploit Power Systems servers.

Power is optimized systems designed for smarter computing

From online self-evaluation tools and workshops to comprehensive assessments and complete migration services, IBM services teams and IBM Business Partner experts around the world can help you determine where to begin or how to make the most of your current Power Systems solutions.

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¹ ITIC 2009 Global Server Reliability Report: ibm.com/common/ssi/fcgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=SA&subtype=WH&appname=STGE_PO_PO_USEN&htmlfid=POL03058USEN&
attachment=POL03058USEN.PDF (PDF, 1.26MB)

² IDC Quarterly Server Tracker Q210 release, August 2010

³ More information on the binary compatibility of AIX can be found at ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/compatibility/guarantee/index.html

⁴ More information on costs to use Power Systems and IBM i 6.1 can be found at ibm.com/common/ssi/fcgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=SA&subtype=WH&appname=STGE_PO_PO_USEN&
htmlfid=POL03062USEN&attachment=POL03062USEN.PDF (PDF, 508KB)

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Highlights

• POWER7® servers and blades offering high qualities of service at affordable prices
• Over 15,000 business solutions running on AIX®, IBM i and Linux®
• Reduce costs with PowerVM™ virtualization, manage risk with PowerHA® resiliency
• Deliver projects faster by leveraging IBM Business Partner expertise

Deliver new services faster

Mid-sized businesses are the engines fueling a Smarter Planet, creating roughly 65 percent of the worldwide gross domestic product. Through their innovation, mid-sized companies are constantly creating new products and services to address growth opportunities. IBM works with thousands of mid-sized firms globally to help them compete in a smarter world—utilizing a comprehensive portfolio of hardware, software and services offerings specifically designed and priced for their unique business needs.

With IBM Power Systems™ Express® servers and software, IBM can help companies deliver services faster to better capitalize on new opportunities. IBM also has extensive business, industry and technology knowledge and experience through a network of local Business Partners. Their local perspective gives them the ability, backed by IBM, to work hand-in-hand with you to provide new services with speed and agility.

Deliver higher quality services

IBM Express offerings are a broad and highly successful set of targeted products, solutions and services that matter to mid-sized businesses.

With a range of options from blades, 2-U, 4-U rack and tower systems, IBM Power Systems Express servers provide the high qualities of service and energy efficiency at affordable prices that mid-sized companies demand for their business solutions.

With over 15,000 business solutions available, IBM Power Systems Express servers have the applications mid-sized companies need to help grow their business. And IBM Power Systems Express servers and Solution Editions options simplify acquisition and deployment of popular ISV applications that seamlessly fit into an existing IT infrastructure.

Deliver services with superior economics

Every IBM Express offering must meet stringent criteria, including affordability, cost-effectiveness, ease of implementation and ease of ownership to ensure their value to mid-sized companies.

Also, many mid-sized companies choose to work with IBM Global Finance to access financing options with great rates, flexible payment plans, plus asset buyback and disposal.

Solutions running on IBM Power Systems Express servers are supported locally by IBM and IBM Business Partner experts who know local market conditions and unique requirements—from initial consultation to implementation, to ongoing hands-on support. IBM offers many options to help you plan your business and infrastructure strategy, from online self-evaluation tools to comprehensive assessments, migration and upgrade services.

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Power is integrated value

A totally integrated approach to the design, development, and testing of each and every Power Systems Express server ensures the higher quality of service required for a cost efficient IT infrastructure.

Power Systems Express servers are optimized with the ability to securely run multiple applications on AIX, i and Linux operating systems on a single server—so you can manage fewer systems with lower cost and higher utilization. No longer do you need to manage complex and energy inefficient x86 server farms with each server dedicated to a single application or operating environment. Now you can consolidate workloads and significantly reduce costs throughout your infrastructure while dramatically improving your ability to meet changing business demands and opportunities.

Power Systems software options enable you to simplify management of both physical and virtual environments including the capability to control data center energy usage and orchestrate processing resources to better meet business goals. And Power solutions are designed to provide you with a road map to continuous availability of mission-critical applications—even when an expected or unexpected interruption occurs.

Power Architecture

Power Systems Express servers are built on the foundation of the POWER7 processor that, in addition to its use in business servers, was used to create Watson, the POWER7 processor-based computer system that competed on Jeopardy!

Watson, a workload optimized system designed to exploit question and answer technology and natural language processing, used a cluster of 90 IBM Power 750® Express servers, systems that are commercially available and in use in thousands of mid-sized companies around the world today.

Power is virtualization without limits

Mid-sized companies are needlessly reeling under high IT management costs, low server utilization, and high energy usage. As a result, consolidation, virtualization and IT management tools and services can transform an IT infrastructure to become a powerful enabler of business growth.

As mid-sized businesses plan projects to transform the costs of their IT infrastructure, they turn to PowerVM virtualization to consolidate multiple workloads onto fewer systems—increasing server utilization and reducing cost. PowerVM provides a secure and scalable virtualization environment for AIX, i and Linux applications built upon the advanced resiliency features and leading performance of the Power Systems platform.

PowerVM offers Micro-Partitioning® with the ability to run up to 10 partitions per processor core and to dynamically move processor, memory, and I/O resources between partitions to support changing workload requirements. PowerVM Live Partition Mobility enables active partitions to be moved between servers virtually eliminating planned downtime. Live partition mobility can also be used to upgrade workloads between POWER6® and POWER7 processor-based servers without an application outage.

VMControl™ provides additional virtualization management capability that helps mid-sized companies that choose to use both PowerVM to virtualize Power Systems and VMware to virtualize their x86 applications. VMControl enables a system administrator to simply monitor and manage virtual machines hosted by PowerVM and VMware from the same screen.

AIX: the future of UNIX

AIX exploits decades of IBM technology innovation and is designed to provide the highest level of performance and reliability of any UNIX® operating system. According to ITIC’s 2010 survey, AIX scored the highest reliability ratings among 15 different server operating system platforms.¹

AIX is an open standards-based UNIX operating system designed to comply with the Open Group’s Single UNIX Specification Version 3.

The latest AIX 7.1 release features new cluster-aware integration with PowerHA, as well the ability to run AIX 5.2 Workload Partitions to facilitate application migration and reuse. The AIX operating system is available in three Editions for a range of capability and flexibility for both mid-sized and large enterprises.

AIX 7 and the previous release, AIX 6, are binary compatible with previous versions of AIX including AIX 5L™. This means that applications that ran on earlier versions will continue to run on AIX 7 or 6—guaranteed.²

IBM i: total integration

IBM i is an integrated operating environment with a more than 20-year reputation for exceptional cost effectiveness, security and business resilience. IBM i integrates a trusted combination of relational DB2® database, security, web services, networking and storage management capabilities. ITG reports that costs to use Power Systems and IBM i 6.1 average 41 percent less than x86 servers and Microsoft® Windows®.³

The latest IBM i 7.1 release includes enhanced DB2 support for XML and column-level encryption, automatic movement of hot data to solid-state drives, enhancements to RPG to extend applications to mobile devices and web services, plus enhanced virtualization and resiliency options.

IBM i 6.1 included expanded options for virtualization, upgraded storage and availability management, breakthrough Java™ performance, support for POWER7 and POWER6 and BladeCenter®, and a broad range of middleware and tools to help drive application transformation.

Linux: scalable, ready for x86 consolidation

Reducing the number of underutilized x86 servers through consolidation and virtualization is a key priority for many mid-sized companies today as they look to reduce infrastructure costs. Linux on Power Systems with PowerVM provide a scalable virtualized alternative to running Windows and Linux on x86 servers. Both Red Hat and Novell SUSE Linux run natively on Power Systems offering a scalable alternative for a wide variety of open source applications.

PowerVM Lx86 cross-platform virtualization technology also enables x86 Linux workloads to run without recompilation and take advantage of the scalability of Power Systems. That makes it even easier to take advantage of the latest Linux applications.

Power is resiliency without downtime

Power Systems solutions benefit from decades of IBM experience in designing and deploying high availability hardware and software. PowerHA SystemMirror disk clustering solutions are available to help keep your systems—and your business—running 24×7×365.

PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX and IBM i Editions are data center and multi-site resiliency solutions designed to help protect critical business applications from outages: planned or unplanned. PowerHA is integrated with cluster aware capabilities in both the AIX and IBM i operating environments.

Power is data protection and compliance

Managing data protection and compliance is vital for mid-sized companies to avoid legal and financial exposures owing to the loss of private customer or key financial data. IBM offers tools to protect data from threats and unauthorized access on Power servers running AIX, i and Linux workloads. Data encryption capabilities to protect file systems, data and backup are an integral part of the AIX and IBM i operating systems, both of which also support role-based access control. Whether you want to manage the security of your Power servers or include other elements in your infrastructure—IBM solutions provide intuitive administration that helps you to define, enforce and audit your business security and compliance policies.

Power is management with automation

With the simple-to-deploy infrastructure management technologies on Power Systems, mid-sized businesses not only get a complete picture of their systems and how well they are operating but also the tools to deploy, optimize and maintain these systems at maximum effectiveness and efficiency. The benefits include optimized performance, energy efficiency and cost control but, most importantly, better management tools free up IT staff that mid-sized companies rely on to deliver higher value services to support business growth initiatives.

IBM System Director Editions for Power are sized for every data center. It is now simpler than ever for a single operator to manage both physical assets and virtual resources. IBM Systems Director offers a unified systems management solution to improve service delivery across Power and x86 applications.

Power is sustainable IT infrastructure

Being socially responsible yields real business benefits. With the high energy demands of server rooms and datacenters, many mid-sized companies want to make sure that they are making progress towards a more sustainable and cost efficient IT infrastructure. Efficiencies in space, power, costs, and labor as well as the potential for new market opportunities await the mid-sized company that focuses on building a more sustainable business and IT infrastructure. Enable the sustainability of your business by improving the efficiency of operations, assets and people while reducing costs, improving your public image and opening the door to new opportunities.

Power Systems energy management solutions monitor and control energy usage to help you manage energy efficiency in your server room or data center. Each Power server has EnergyScale™ technology built into the POWER7 processor. And with IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™, you can identify trends in your energy usage and thermal profile plus track environmental data from applications used to monitor air conditioning units and Uninterruptible Power Supplies.

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¹ ITIC 2009 Global Server Reliability Report: ibm.com/common/ssi/fcgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=SA&subtype=WH&appname=STGE_PO_PO_USEN&
htmlfid=POL03058USEN&attachment=POL03058USEN.PDF (PDF, 1.26MB)

² More information on the binary compatibility of AIX can be found at ibm.com/systems/power/software
/aix/compatibility/guarantee/index.html

³ More information on costs to use Power Systems and IBM i 6.1 can be found at ibm.comcommon/ssi/fcgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=SA&subtype=WH&appname=STGE_PO_PO_USEN&
htmlfid=POL03062USEN&attachment=POL03062USEN.PDF (PDF, 508KB)

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