Announcing IBM PowerVM™, the virtualization platform designed for mission-critical applications
PowerVM is software that delivers industry-leading virtualization on IBM POWER™ processor-based systems for UNIX®, Linux® and i5/OS® customers. It is based on IBM's 40 year history of virtualization leadership and used today by thousands of customers for large-scale mission-critical production environments. PowerVM technologies include Micro-Partitioning™, Live Partition Mobility and virtualized storage management.
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PowerVM helps businesses cut the energy costs of server sprawl
Running out of room in your datacenter? Unable to fit additional servers into your raised floor environment without a costly power upgrade? Go green and save with PowerVM and potentially cutting energy costs by up to 65%1 through server consolidation.
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PowerVM helps reduce operations costs to fund new business opportunities
Inundated with new workload requests, even in the face of ever shrinking budgets? PowerVM can help you reduce the cost of existing infrastructure by up to 72%2, leaving you with money to spare for new business ventures.
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PowerVM helps keeps applications available as your business grows
Tired of coming into the office at 2AM on Sunday night for planned server maintenance? Working in a 24/7 business where application downtime is unacceptable? Exploit the innovative features of PowerVM like Live Partition and Application Mobility to help you eliminate application downtime.

