Reduce IT Costs and Complexity

IT managers and CIOs today face a daunting challenge. Given the economic downturn, one of their highest priorities is to decrease the cost of their IT infrastructure and accelerate ROI while also improving service levels. The question for most IT investments becomes, "How do I reduce my up-front cost burden and recover costs within a 12-month window?"

With IBM Systems & Services, you can begin to reduce your IT cost and complexity by consuming less energy and less space thanks to simplified server management.

IBM has the capability, expertise and track record to provide a consistent, highly scalable consolidation platform that provides maximum resource utilisation, driving low cost and effectively managing a highly virtualised, dynamic infrastructure.

Count on IBM for:

Lower TCO through integration of servers, storage and networking through unmatched virtualisation expertise (with over 40,000 virtualisation clients), resulting in usage of less space and energy consumption and simplified server management.
Open, innovative and reliable architecture, optimal leadership performance, price/performance and exceptional investment protection.
Tailored, IT-wide solutions (not one size fits all) so your infrastructure achieves the highest potential savings and builds the ideal foundation for a dynamic infrastructure that supports your changing business needs.
Ground-breaking processor and systems technologies, delivering maximum compute performance for the least power consumed.
A comprehensive set of tools to track and trend power consumption and heat output, as measure, diagnose and manage energy efficiency, and drive down costs.
Accelerate ROI and improve cash flow with IBM Global Financing.

Reduce IT costs and complexity and improve responsiveness

With the right technology, you can simplify your infrastructure, make it more responsive, and reduce your IT costs.

Virtualisation can help — by deploying multiple virtual servers on one physical server, organisations can simplify management, cut hardware and energy costs and increase server flexibility. Tracking, updating and maintaining one physical server is often easier and less expensive than doing the same for several.

According to ITG, you can save up to 16.4% on lT infrastructure costs over 3 years with IBM servers and storage as compared to HP equivalent solutions. (and up to 15.3% for Dell)¹

Clients can reduce server acquisition costs by over $400K and save up to 91% of the energy use by consolidating on the Power 550 Express from the Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000, while also using up to 1/7th the rack space and up to 90% fewer cores.²

Clients can save more with IBM Storage since overall 3 year costs average 21.6% less for IBM DS3000/DS4000 storage systems as compared to other storage products.¹

Increase energy efficiency and reduce energy costs

IDC estimates that for every $1.00 spent on new servers today, an additional $0.50 is spent on power and cooling. Unless drastic changes are made, IDC expects this ratio to increase to $0.70 or more by 2011.¹

With IBM tools to diagnose, measure, and manage energy efficiency, you can drive down costs as well as respond to energy efficiency mandates. Start the process by bringing IBM on site to identify simple, low-cost energy saving ideas and predict your potential savings.

IBM's full line of servers is at the forefront of energy efficiency. System z mainframes can run at utilisation rates as high as 100% for extended periods of time.³ Through a combination of performance, consolidation, and virtualisation, Power Systems, enable you to save up to 90% of the energy required by Sun, HP and Dell servers.⁴ The Power 570 is 1.9 times as efficient as the HP rx8640 and the Power 560 is 1.6 times more efficient than the HP rx7640.⁴

Potential cost savings from IBM Systems Director 6.1 to manage large number of physical & virtual servers can reach 34.5% for Windows & 43.8% for Linux x86.

And this efficiency extends to storage systems. With IBM Storage systems, overall three year costs average 21.6% less for IBM DS3000/4000 systems than for Dell/EMC AX4 and CX3 systems, and 22.9 percent less than for HP Modular Storage Array (MSA) and Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) systems.

Benefit by partnering with a leader

We provide sustained, tangible benefits to your business. Our experience and technology leadership extends in many directions:

Year after year, IBM’s patents give us a glimpse of how life could be better with the help of technology. Now, for the sixteenth consecutive year, IBM is the number one United States patent holder. And even though IBM broke the 4,000 patents mark last year, our leadership in this area is about much more than just numbers. It’s about paving the way for smarter patent systems and processes -- and making inventions and technologies available and open in the public domain to drive innovation.
For a record-setting tenth consecutive time, an IBM system holds the number one position in the ranking of the world's most powerful supercomputers. The IBM computer built for the "roadrunner project" at Los Alamos National Lab — the first in the world to operate at speeds faster than one quadrillion calculations per second (petaflop) — remains the world speed champion.
IBM is a pioneer of Virtualisation with end-to-end expertise capable of providing customised solutions to its clients as per their needs.
IBM Global Financing: IBM Global Financing helps you acquire the IT solutions that your business needs in the most cost-effective and strategic way possible. Choose from a variety of financing options to address your unique solution requirements and help manage your cash flow and assets.

Migrating to a simpler, more efficient infrastructure can reduce IT costs in so many ways. With a small number of highly efficient servers and storage devices, you lower your administration, hardware maintenance, software and energy costs. IBM can work within your budget to provide you with the high-performance technology and world-class expertise to set you on the right path for years to come.

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