Minimize risk and maximize results.

Oracle® recently announced it will discontinue new development on the Itanium platform. This follows similar announcements by Red Hat® and Microsoft® last year. In response, IBM® is offering HP Itanium® clients a low risk migration solution. Switch to IBM ex5 servers with intelligent Intel® Xeon® processors through a minimal cost migration assessment and service offerings and experience IBM's industry-leading systems with better performance, and virtualization capabilities than comparable HP Itanium based systems.

You can count on IBM solutions. With consistent product roadmaps and a record of investment protection, IBM has already publically committed to supporting DB2 on HP Itanium into the next decade (see http://bit.ly/mUOdRk - link resides outside of ibm.com).

With eX5 systems, you can achieve:

• Industry-leading transaction processing performance – over 3 million transactions per minute, or 66 percent better than competitive x86 systems¹
• More users and faster response time for greater SAP throughput, as demonstrated through the highest-ever x86 SAP SD 2-tier benchmark performance²
• 14 to 18 percent better virtualization throughput and more virtual machines per system for a more efficient virtualized environment³

With simple, low risk migration, you can expect:

• Thousands of successful client migrations every year
• The expertise and technology to do it right the fist time
• No surprises with free, rapid migration assessments
• Most application codes to run on DB2 without any changes, with DB2's Oracle compatibility feature

"If workload analysis determines that x86 multi-cores can do the job, we suggest that IBM’s System x line be evaluated. We find it superior in terms of breadth and depth to Hewlett-Packard and Oracle x86 offerings for a variety of reasons — particularly in system design, configuration offerings, and related systems software." Joe Clabby, President, Clabby Analytics, April 2011

• Read the Clabby White Paper on HP Itanium migration to eX5

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  Chris Johnson

  Marketing Segment Manager for System x
  IBM System x, x86 Competitive Tools, Sales Enablement

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