IBM Power Systems - Accelerating the Path to Optimized Systems

The explosive growth businesses are seeing today places new demands on Information Technology (IT). Some challenges include a noticeable growth in information sources, exponentially increasing data, level of complexity of business applications and an alarming rate at which hardware is proliferating in data centers. Managing and maintaining storage and servers is a huge challenge and adds to the existing hardware infrastructure, thus increasing an organization IT costs.

In this white paper, we discuss how IBM’s Smarter Computing, in particular IBM software that includes WebSphere Application Server, DB2 and AIX, has been optimized to leverage the massive parallel architecture and virtualization capabilities of Power Systems to help alleviate many of the challenges IT organizations face today.

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Advantages

Companies embracing Smarter Computing are implementing IT infrastructure based on the IBM Power Systems platform that is designed for data, tuned to the task and managed with cloud technologies. With Power Systems, businesses can outpace their competitors by delivering services faster, differentiate their offerings by delivering higher quality services, and turn operational cost into investment opportunity by delivering services with superior economics.

Hardware

Power Systems hardware provides the foundation for designing workload optimized systems in conjunction with software and expert domain knowledge. Power servers and blades are modular and scalable and designed from the chip through the software stack to help deliver new levels of business performance.

Operating systems

Power servers deliver flexibility and choice of operating systems to enable your business to select the best applications for your business needs. Whether running 1, 2, or all 3 - coupled with PowerVM, they maximize the benefit of Power Systems in your business.

System software

IBM's integrated approach to developing Systems and Systems Software stacks together delivers maximum utilization, availability, and flexibility helping you deliver new advantages in your business.

Solutions

IBM and IBM Business Partner solutions exploit key benefits in Power Systems that help you deliver new capabilities and new competitive advantages to your business.

Migrate to Power

Over the last five years thousands of clients have migrated to POWER. Learn how Power Systems has helped them improve their business performance, reduce risk, and establish a more secure future.

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