Assess your needs

You need a dynamic insfrastructure. But where do you start?

Overview

Achieving a dynamic infrastructure starts with identifying where you most need to initially focus. Whether you are first looking to improve service, reduce costs or manage risk, IBM has services, software, hardware and financing to help. Review the core needs below to understand your next steps.

Deliver high-quality services efficiently

If you’re looking for a way to build and manage a dynamic infrastructure that allows you to respond rapidly to change and deliver higher quality service to your customers at a lower cost, you’ll want to learn more about IBM Service Management.

How to get started: Do you have what it takes to respond rapidly to change and deliver higher quality service to your customers at a lower cost? Use the IT Service Management Self Assessment Tool to find out.

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Manage IT and other assets simply

IBM Asset Management provides the unique ability to manage all types of business and operational assets.

Many companies have implemented multiple asset management solutions to meet the needs of different types of assets. With IBM Asset Management you can use one system for all asset types.

How to get started:

Reduce costs while maintaining performance

Virtualization provides the ability to pool IT resources to reduce capital expense of hardware, software and facilities. It breaks the barriers of physical devices in a dynamic infrastructure, improving TCO, resiliency and flexibility.

How to get started: Learn more about the integrated array of feature-rich virtualization solutions from IBM.

Reduce energy costs and carbon footprint

From energy assessments to innovative technology, IBM energy and environment solutions and services are available to help identify and rectify energy trouble spots, enabling energy savings, increased power availability, operational efficiencies, and increased sustainability.

How to get started: Learn more about the latest technologies, solutions and strategies that can help you improve the energy efficiency of your IT infrastructure:

Explore the IBM Data Center Family

Breakthrough energy savings with IBM BladeCenter HS 22

Download the Robert Francis Group white paper Increasing Energy Efficiency with x86 Servers

Tivoli Monitoring for Energy Management free trial offer

Watch how kika/Leiner built a new green data center

Greening IBM DemoCentral Datacenter with Energy Management Solutions

Manage and secure data and information

It’s not just about adding capacity to keep up with data volume; it’s about ensuring information availability, retention, compliance and security and finding smarter ways to extract business value from your information resources.

How to get started:

Attend this Information Infrastructure webcast (link resides outside of ibm.com)

Enable resilient systems and operations

Our solutions are designed to help provide the right level of availability and to help enable compliance with regulatory requirements for security, recovery, uptime, and data protection

How to get started: Learn your company’s exposure to data, event, and business-driven risks.

Webcast: Resiliency: the silver lining to cloud computing from IBM (link resides outside of ibm.com)

Webcast: Resiliency as a Competitive Advantage (link resides outside of ibm.com)

Business continuity and resiliency services (562KB)

Protect systems and data from security threats

IBM can empower organizations to dynamically monitor and quantify security risks, better understand threats and vulnerabilities, better respond to security events, better quantify and prioritize their security investments.

How to get started: Learn how IBM Security can help address security risks and compliance management needs

Understand the business value of my projects

At any given point in time, an organization will have multiple projects they could potentially complete, each with their own champions and pressures. Help remove the pressures by completing a Business Value Roadmap projects assessment. IBM can help by providing the overall business value a project can deliver, including the ROI, so you can see which projects can deliver the most value the fastest and accelerate your company’s journey to a dynamic infrastructure.

How to get started: Learn more about the IT Optimization Business Value Roadmap

Understand the benefits of cloud computing

IBM can help you better understand the opportunities available with cloud computing—a great dynamic resource—which, for the right situation, can improve service, reduce cost, and speed time to delivery. Learn how cloud computing could be the right sourcing option for your business.

How to get started: Learn more about cloud computing from IBM.

Meet business demands despite shrinking budgets

IBM can help you speed up the implementation of your entire project despite a constrained budget. Creative financing can reduce technology spend rates while gaining access to new capital sources.

How to get started:

Implement a more flexible IT infrastructure

One size does not fit all. Because your business is unique, your infrastructure must be also be tailored to your specific needs.

How to get started: Contact your sales representative to see how we can work with you to identify the benefits of a dynamic infrastructure in your environment.

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