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Server consolidation

Get lower TCO and increased operational efficiencies

  
Learn about consolidation from businesses who are realizing the benefits.

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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Many companies struggle with complexity as they grow larger. Many companies struggle with complexity as they grow larger. Over time, they have to add applications, servers and storage, leading to a large and complex data center.

This situation can become a limit to your success, leading to underutilized resources to be logically represented, freeing
them from the limitations of device level management. This helps you to manage multiple applications and information across shared resources, optimizing your IT systems.

With an efficient data center, you could benefit from... With an efficient data center, you could benefit from:
  • Reduced physical complexity
  • Lower energy costs
  • Higher levels of availability, response time and security
  • Fewer required licenses for systems software, databases and middleware
  • Improved service quality, and backup and recovery
  • High development and deployment productivity
  • And reduced application project cycles and risks

IBM has helped many companies build efficient data centers. IBM has helped many companies build efficient data centers. For example, we helped:
  • The University of Pittsburg Medical Center, one of the most renowned academic medical centers in the United States,
  • And we helped Computacenter, a leading European independent provider of IT infrastructure services

By redeploying their systems onto the System p platform... By redeploying their systems onto the System p platform, these companies gained flexibility in allocating their server resources and were able to speed their processes.


We can help you gain leadership performance, versatility and manageability, too – at potentially We can help you gain leadership performance, versatility and manageability, too—at potentially lower costs than you are experiencing now and with an easier migration path than you might think.

Establish an IT infrastructure that enables innovation
throughout your business. Build an efficient data center with the IBM System p5 590 and 595.

For more information about building an efficient data center with IBM System p models 590 and 595, call your IBM representative or go to ibm.com/systems/p.

 
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Server Consolidation Using Advanced POWER Virtualization and Linux