Highlights

• Deliver services faster, with higher quality and superior economics
• Solutions for AIX, IBM i and PowerLinux operating environments
• Built on the foundation of POWER7 processor technology
• Consolidate and reduce cost with PowerVM virtualization
• Deliver resiliency without downtime with PowerHA and IBM Storage
• Deployment options include blades, compute nodes and servers

Smarter Computing

The planet is getting smaller, flatter and smarter every day. Global market segments are connected like never before. Economic shock waves, both good and bad, travel the globe in nanoseconds. Newer, smarter technologies arrive daily. New business models are born, and old ones die, in the blink of an eye.

This radical change is placing enormous pressure on businesses of practically every size, in just about every industry. The barriers of entry for competitors are lower. The need to be proactive, which requires an agile, flexible human and IT infrastructure, is critical. To deal with these changes, companies are embracing smarter computing.

Smarter computing entails the creation of an IT infrastructure that is designed for data and that harnesses enterprise information to unlock insights and make better, more informed choices. Organizations embracing smarter computing are creating IT infrastructures that are tuned to the tasks of the business, helping reduce costs by driving greater efficiency and performance for virtually every workload. And smarter computing is managed with cloud technologies, speeding delivery of services and creating an IT environment that has practically no boundaries, enabling the reinvention of processes and driving innovation.

Power is performance redefined

Everyone knows what ‘performance’ meant for IT in the past. Built on the foundation of POWER7® processor technology, Power Systems™ servers, compute nodes and blades continue to excel and extend industry leadership in these traditional benchmarks of performance.

In this new smarter computing era for business and IT, however, forward-thinking companies consider more than server performance, existing skills and ease of management when choosing a platform for new application workloads. They also evaluate how well the platform will help them achieve three core business objectives: delivering new services faster, with higher quality and superior economics.

By implementing smarter computing projects on an IBM Power Systems platform, businesses can outpace their competitors by delivering services faster. They can differentiate their offerings from the competition by delivering higher quality services. And they can turn operational cost into investment opportunity by delivering services with superior economics.

Deliver new services faster

A key measure of performance for IT today is around agility and the ability of IT to help the business gain a competitive edge and capitalize on emerging opportunities. Businesses need to simplify and integrate their IT infrastructure to deliver new services faster.

The IBM Power Systems platform features deep integration and optimization across the full stack of hardware, firmware, hypervisor, operating systems, databases and middleware for simpler, and more flexible, service delivery. Optimized with PowerVM server virtualization for rapid cloud provisioning, companies can speed the delivery and deployment of new applications and processes to support their strategic business initiatives.

Deliver services with higher quality

Today’s IT departments are also measured on their ability to provide an infrastructure that can address demands for increased application service levels, while also balancing rapid change with managing business risk. Businesses need an integrated approach to managing security and compliance, resiliency and business risk to deliver higher quality services.

The IBM Power Systems platform, IBM storage and IBM software provide a highly secure and resilient infrastructure foundation for smarter computing. In addition to the built-in reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) characteristics of Power Systems servers and IBM System Storage® DS8000® and IBM Storwize® V7000 Unified storage systems, IBM PowerHA SystemMirror clustering software is also tightly integrated with the AIX and IBM i operating systems to provide a system-wide solution for business resilience.

Deliver services with superior economics

IT performance today is also measured on its ability to maintain existing services and deliver new services within tight budget constraints. In order to do more with less, businesses need to deliver services with superior economics.

Consolidation of workloads on the Power Systems platform with PowerVM server virtualization is a central feature of differentiation when comparing Power Systems versus x86 servers. PowerVM technology is designed to offer more secure and more scalable virtualization compared to VMware on x86 servers, enabling cost-effective control of server and virtual image sprawl. PowerVM technology also is designed to help Power Systems servers deliver higher server utilization rates than VMware on x86.

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