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Highlights

  • Achieve business success simply with the flexible, scalable IBM Power™ Systems family
  • Reduce complexity and costs by managing multiple environments on a single system with PowerVM™
  • Simplify management of IT resources with storage virtualization provided by the IBM i operating system
  • Increase business agility with broad application portfolio from broad range of operating systems

Success can be simple

Today's on demand businesses rely on a variety of IT infrastructure technologies—from messaging systems to firewalls and file servers to database and Web application servers. The complete picture can be very complex and expensive. But it doesn't need to be—not any more. To help simplify your IT infrastructure, IBM Power Systems servers with IBM PowerVM virtualization technologies, and the IBM i operating system (formerly known as i5/OS®) provide innovative technology to integrate mixed computing environments and applications and simplify IT infrastructures. These IT optimization offerings can help reduce IT complexity and total cost of ownership while maximizing computer resources usage, simplifying IT management and matching business needs with the right applications. The Power Systems family with PowerVM and IBM i offers an integrated design and an uncomplicated approach to help manage unpredictable growth. Integrating the operating systems, middleware, database, security and storage into one system means that your infrastructure should be flexible, scalable and easy to use. The agility of a Power Systems infrastructure can increase your capability to meet unexpected customer and market demands while simultaneously reducing your infrastructure management costs.

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1 Windows applications are supported via integrated System x or BladeCenter offerings.


 
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