Upgrade systems for business value

Manage systems growth, complexity, and risk.

Interdependent IT systems are only as secure, fast, and resilient as the weakest link. When you identify and upgrade aging or underperforming components the value resonates beyond the new asset area, improving functionality and extending business value across the entire enterprise.

If you’ve already identified an upgrade path, contact your IBM representative today. If you’re just beginning your analysis, check out the options on this page for an overview of popular upgrades that are delivering big benefits for many of our customers.

Servers

System z

With IBM System z and the new System z10™ Enterprise Class, you can realize significant advantages in energy efficiency, processing capacity to handle large workloads, and total cost of ownership.

Power Systems

Introducing The New Power Equation, the IBM Power™ servers. From the IBM Power™ 595 down to the IBM BladeCenter® JS12 Express, these servers support UNIX (AIX®), Linux®, and IBM i environments on a single Power system, all using POWER6™ processor technology. POWER6 performance, more solution choice, PowerVM™ virtualization, scaling as never before, and PowerHA™ high availability offerings all add up to new value for you.

Operating systems

IBM i 6.1

IBM i 6.1 sets new standards for efficiency and resiliency in business processing. To help your business thrive in competitive marketplaces, this release includes expanded options for virtualization, upgraded storage and availability management, breakthrough Java performance, new support for POWER6™ processors and BladeCenter®, and a broad range of middleware and tools to help drive SOA transformation.

AIX 6

The next step in the evolution of the UNIX® operating system, AIX® 6 prepares you to take advantage of the latest processor technology. New features for virtualization, security, availability and manageability are designed to make AIX 6 even more flexible, secure and available than previous versions.

Storage

Enterprise Disk DS8000

Virtualized, resilient, high-performance disk storage for business-critical enterprise workloads. Through virtualization, you can simplify management, allocate system resources more effectively and better control application quality of service.

Data Encryption

The IBM System Storage TS1120 and Ultrium 4 Tape drives offer encryption at the device level to protect data without impacting server performance. These easily implemented solutions are compatible with IBM and non-IBM Systems, so you can upgrade without making additional changes to your infrastructure.

Virtual Tape Server

The IBM Virtualization Engine™ TS7700 is a mainframe virtual-tape solution that is designed to optimize tape processing for faster backup and restore operations, easier tape management, and lower storage costs.

TS3400 Tape Library

The IBM System Storage™ TS3400 Tape Library is designed to offer the high capacity and performance advantage of the IBM System Storage TS1120 Tape Drive, in a smaller automation footprint. An external 5U standalone or rack-mountable unit, the TS3400 provides up to 37.8 TB of compressed tape storage and transfer rates up to 104 MBps per drive.