Summary
One server or storage platform cannot fit all needs. Scaling right means picking the scale-up or scale-out approach — or combination of the two — that best fits each situation. With this strategy, you are not locked into a single platform or a single vendor — instead, you can choose the optimal mix of technologies to provide the greatest ROI for your company.
When you scale right, you can mix and match Intel® architecture-based blades and rack servers. You can deploy powerful RISC servers based on the IBM® POWER™ architecture or even host hundreds of smaller servers on a single mainframe. IBM storage systems support all of these types of servers, providing shared access to enterprise data. When you choose the best mix of technologies to handle each workload, you are indeed optimizing the return on your IT investment.
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This article discusses how you can leverage unique IBM capabilities to help transform your data center to lower costs, improve agility and exceed service level expectations.
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Farchioni Olii
The world's fourth-largest producer of extra-virgin olive oil has benefited from IT consolidation.
MSTC Limited
This leading Indian importer of scrap metal, asked IBM Business Partner Web Development Company, Ltd., (WDC) to upgrade its infrastructure to improve the availability and scalability of its online auction services.
Aviza Technology
This semiconductor equipment manufacturer needed a cost-effective way to resolve IT reliability issues while also boosting performance and enabling new levels of flexibility.
Voith AG
This large German engineering and manufacturing firm, saved 70 to 80 percent of the energy cost and 30 percent of the software cost when they consolidated on IBM POWER5™ processor-based servers.
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