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The IBM Power platform provides a flexible, secure and more easily managed infrastructure than competitive UNIX and x86 platforms. IBM’s investment in the Power technology has enabled IBM to differentiate the Power platform with undisputed reliability, superior security, higher virtual density with lower cost and quick provisioning of solutions in a cloud, while improving overall client experience.

Undisputed reliability – IBM’s AIX v 7.1 running on Power Systems, averaged approximately 10 minutes of per server/per annum downtime and recorded the least amount overall downtime.1

Superior security – 10X less reported security complaints than commodity servers based on Intel x86.2

Higher utilization, lower cost – PowerVM demonstrated virtualization efficiency and density that is 2.5X higher than competition to increase asset utilization and streamline integration of traditional and information-centric applications.3

Provision new workloads quickly and easily – Up to 58% faster project deployment.3

IBM is committed to delivering Power technology to the market that drives new opportunities for customers with leading analytics on a secure and highly efficient infrastructure.

What research analysts are saying:

Security

    “In the years 2011 and 2012, x86 deployments reported 205,181 more security incursions than Power Systems with the average cost per incursion 2.3X higher on x86.”

Is your platform secure? Really?, Solitaire Interglobal Ltd., (All rights reserved), January 2013

Significant savings

    “Customers running Oracle DB on Power can realize a savings of up to 40% over customers running Oracle DB on Oracle SPARC. By switching to DB2 on Power, they can save even more.”

Business Impacts on SAP Deployments, Solitaire Interglobal Ltd., (All rights reserved), January 2013

What our clients are saying:

    “The IBM Power Architecture has once again proved its value as a high-performance, highly available platform for SAP applications. We are confident that the Power 750 servers will give us the capacity we need to grow our business over the next two years and beyond.”

Bruno Sticht, Chief Information Officer at Constantia Hueck Folien

    “Our predictive analytics service will help financial institutions focus on their most profitable customers and create goal-oriented offers that are targeted to each customer’s specific needs.”

David Rose, Senior Vice President, Decision Optimization Solutions, Fiserv

1 ITIC 2013 Global Server Hardware, Server OS Reliability Survey; ITIC (All rights reserved); January 2013

2 Is your platform secure? Really?, Solitaire Interglobal Ltd., (All rights reserved), January 2013

3 Does your Virtualization Platform Matter? Solitaire Interglobal Ltd., (All rights reserved), April 2012

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

  • How safe is your critical data?

    How secure is your platform compared to AIX?

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  • PowerVM takes on VMware

    Edison Group - PowerVM up to 525% better performance

    Read the paper

  • Client optimizes SAP applications

    Move to POWER7 from HP - lowers costs, improves business performance

    Read the Bathwick analysis

  • Your server virtualization platform matters

    Achieving lower costs, less risk, higher densities and quality with PowerVM

    Read the Solitaire analysis

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