Server consolidation is rapidly becoming recognized as one of the best ways for businesses to increase IT efficiency while reducing overall costs. System p™ servers include both the leadership performance and the proven virtualization capabilities to enable a successful consolidation of your applications on the AIX 5L™ and Linux® operating systems.
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Get the help you need to assess your consolidation requirements and mitigate business interruption risks by taking advantage of services provided through the IBM Server Consolidation Factory for System p. Our consolidation experts work with you to understand and manage your costs through:
- Detailed analysis and CFO-ready TCO report to aid decision-making
- IT environment analysis and recommendation of a System p server consolidation solution that is optimized to scale up or scale out to meet your needs
- Planning assessment factors in your costs for space and utilities
- Highly-customized financing/lease structures and payment terms help you conserve cash and fit budget cycle requirements.
Once you are ready to begin the consolidation and migration of systems to System p servers, the IBM Server Consolidation Factory team can:
- Deploy and test the consolidation environment without disrupting your current operations
- Design flexible options for autonomic failover helping reduce the impact, or in some cases eliminate workload outages
- Migrate multiple UNIX® operating system applications to AIX 5L and Linux
- Train your staff on System p hardware and systems management at your location, and offsite for IBM Advance POWER Virtualization techniques
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