Benefits and solutions

A successful journey to a dynamic infrastructure

Only IBM can provide a complete portfolio of solutions and services, innovative servers, storage and systems software that facilitate combined business and IT. Dynamic infrastructure solutions lay the foundation for:

• business services that are delivered securely, efficiently, reliably and cost effectively
• an energy efficient IT infrastructure that can reduce energy and operational costs, address space, power and cooling issues, and contribute to achieving a company’s overall green objectives
• security, compliance, resilience and business risk management
• more effective information management to reduce risk and efficiently and securely stores, protects and optimizes information access

Each solution initiative contributes to a holistic approach to improve service, reduce cost and manage risk:

Service management
Service management solutions help you create and manage a more agile, business-oriented and dynamic infrastructure so you can rapidly respond to change and deliver higher quality services at a lower cost.

Asset management
Hardware, software, and services from IBM help you maximize the performance and lifetime value of assets across your enterprise—production, facilities, transportation and IT—and closely align them with your overall business strategy.

Virtualization
Virtualization and consolidation can reduce IT complexity to help your data center become more resilient and secure while reducing costs. The ability to deploy capacity and server images virtually increases speed of deployment roughly by a factor of 30 times*.

Energy efficiency
Energy efficiency solutions can help lower data center energy costs by up to 40% or more through facilities design, power and cooling infrastructure, active energy management, and efficient, scalable IBM systems.

Information infrastructure
IBM’s comprehensive approach to information infrastructure addresses compliance, availability, retention, and security requirements while helping businesses get the right information to the right person at the right time. Potential benefits include up to: 75% decrease in capital costs, 600% increase in input capacity, 300x improvement in throughput, 500x improvement in hardware price/performance ratio.

Business continuity and resiliency
Business continuity and resiliency solutions keep your business running in the event of an internal or external risk, planned or unplanned, and allow your IT experts to devote more time to innovation. Less than 50% percent companies surveyed have disaster recovery and business continuity strategies in place, according to researchers at UK-based Chartered Management Institute. And among those who have planned for business continuity and resiliency, 75 percent report that efforts are likely to be “haphazard” and “untested.”

Security
IBM Security solutions deliver the full breadth and depth of capabilities that enable organizations to take a business-driven, holistic approach to security, compliance and risk management. This,in alignment with an IT governance framework, supports the secure delivery of services with speed and agility in a dynamic infrastructure.