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A dynamic, scalable infrastructure that can be easily managed is critical with today's 24/7 business environment. IBM recognizes these requirements and delivers PowerVM™ with Live Partition Mobility, Capacity on Demand offerings and a broad range of concurrent maintenance features to enable a roadmap to continuous availability.

Virtualization

Virtualization can help reduce complexity as you grow your infrastructure. The comprehensive systems technologies and services that comprise the IBM PowerVM features are designed to enable you to aggregate and manage resources through a consolidated, logical view.

Capacity on Demand

With Capacity on Demand (CoD) for Power™ servers, you can non-disruptively increase your processor and memory resource as needed, without disruption — and then turn extra capacity off when your workload subsides. That means you can match your capacity with your business goals.

High availability

IBM PowerHA for AIX®, IBM i and Linux® helps you to achieve the business continuity that you need as your business grows. IBM PowerHA provides reliable high-availability services, monitoring your critical applications running on IBM Power servers. The combination of IBM's servers, AIX, IBM i, Linux, and PowerHA provides protection and availability you can depend on.

Security

IBM Power servers and AIX 6 deliver dependable hardware and software security to help you manage growth and complexity. Use the advanced authentication, accountability, administration and encryption capabilities of the Power platform and AIX to set system-wide security policies for your organization along with controls that are configurable on a user-by-user basis.