Reduce IT Costs and Complexity

Simple is beautiful - Simplify your IT infrastructure and reduce costs with industry leading technologies from IBM for the ideal platform for IT consolidation for today’s datacenter and beyond.

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 utilization, driving low cost and effectively managing a highly virtualized, dynamic infrastructure.

You may be getting by with your aging IT infrastructure, but working around its limitations may make it more complex and inflexible in a business climate that demands agility and responsiveness hampering growth and profitability. IBM can help.

Count on IBM for:

Lower TCO through integration of servers, storage and networking through unmatched virtualization expertise (with over 40,000 virtualization 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.
Financing: IBM lease, pay zero dollars down, operating cash optimization, savings on cumulative investment, automatic technology refreshes.

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.

Virtualization can help — by deploying multiple virtual servers on one physical server, organizations 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.

Unlike many of our competitors, IBM offers a rich, diverse and integrated array of virtualization solutions, spanning from x86 systems to System z mainframes as well as the services and software necessary to allow organizations to streamline the management of computing environment and reduce maintenance and support costs by consolidating IT infrastructure. IBM’s experience is unequaled in the industry.

IBM Power Systems support three operating systems — UNIX®, Linux® and IBM i (formerly IBM i5/OS®) — which means, in one environment, you can have access to an estimated 15000 applications, instead of cobbling together systems to support multiple operating systems.

IBM PowerVM™ provides virtualization functionality for AIX®, IBM i and Linux® operating systems. IBM Systems Director family provides a single point of management to control your virtual and physical infrastructure, including Microsoft Windows®, AIX, Linux and i operating systems, helping you reduce IT costs by reducing energy usage and administrative complexity.

With a balanced focus on providing breakthrough performance and high availability, the IBM System x3850 M2 and System x3950 M2 allow scalability from 4- to 8- to 16- socket configurations with a unique pay-as-you-grow design for your changing business needs.

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 2011¹.

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 utilization rates as high as 100% for extended periods of time². Through a combination of performance, consolidation, and virtualization, Power Systems, enable you to save up to 90% of the energy required by Sun, HP and Dell servers³.

Thanks to our System x™ servers like IBM System x3850M2 — which delivers 27 percent better performance per watt than HP ProLiant DL580 G5⁴ — and IBM BladeCenter®—which has an 11:1 consolidation ratio for BladeCenter HS22 vs. older HP DL360 racks — ROI is as fast as three months, along with reductions of your IT footprint by up to 95% and power requirements by up to 93%.

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) systems⁵

Respond more quickly to a changing business climate with leadership performance that delivers value over time.

You need to anticipate and respond to changes faster and better than the competition to succeed in today’s world. With IBM server and storage solutions, like IBM Power Systems based on IBM POWER6 technology and IBM System x enterprise servers with 4th-generation IBM eX4 technology and leading Storage Virtualization, you can run multiple operating environments simultaneously.

This makes it easy for you to add new systems and applications into your existing infrastructure without major disruptions. With IBM Systems, you will be able to:

Migrate easily from other systems
Ensure flexible growth paths
Protect your IT investment and grow as needed with open industry-standard technologies
Pay only for what you need, only when you need it
Simplify your IT environment and potentially save money, even with multiple operating systems, thanks to flexible IBM consolidation options

Get all the details handled in one place

Throughout the process of building your new infrastructure, IBM stands by you, offering an array of services:

With IBM ServicePacs® for Warranty and Maintenance Services, you have a variety of service options available to fit your needs, with response times as low as two hours.

Most company's internal IT resources are already spread thin. IBM Implementation Services can guide you through the transition period to a more effective infrastructure. We can help with everything from basic skills transfer to developing more efficient systems management processes.

Funding is a significant part of any migration effort. IBM Global Financing offers everything from simple leases and loans to complex, customized transactions.

When you migrate, you'll need to dispose of your old equipment. IBM Express Asset Recovery Solutions (ARS) offers a comprehensive range of reasonably priced buyback and disposal services.

Benefit by partnering with a leader

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

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 recently developed the first single x86 server based on eX4, the fourth generation of IBM's chipset for Intel® processor-based servers, X-Architecture to burst through the 1 million transactions per minute barrier on the TPC-C benchmark. This server has many highest/first titles to its credit.
Creation of the highest 4-socket x86 server TPC-C benchmark, delivering more transactions per minute than any other 4-processor server.
Development of the highest 4-processor performance and overall best price/performance on the TPC-E benchmark, outpacing the Dell 4-way server in both performance and price/performance.
Holder of the world record for 8-processor results on two-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark.
Through its BladeCenter range, IBM provides the maximum range of blade server and chassis options to its customers as opposed to its competitors, who provide “one size fits all” solutions.
IBM is a pioneer of Virtualization with end-to-end expertise capable of providing customized 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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