Does your server virtualization platform matter?

Getting the most out of your IT investment with PowerVM virtualization

A new study from Solitaire Interglobal describes how PowerVM virtualization on Power Systems delivers dynamic support for your business with greater agility, optimized efficiency, and trusted resiliency for mission critical workloads, outperforming popular competitors.

Risk factor summary.Virtualization is a very hot topic in today’s technology discussions. Equality important, a strong virtualization strategy is critical for cloud delivery models. IBM believes that virtualization is also a key element in achieving the benefits of Smarter Computing.

Download the complete study from Solitaire Interglobal “Does your Virtualization Platform Matter?” to see how PowerVM stacks up to the competition from a research survey of over 61,000 customers.

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About the Study

The study of 61,320 customers by Solitaire Interglobal Ltd. (SIL) shows the value of the virtualization method to the application suite. The purpose of the analysis was to examine the real-world impact on businesses that deploy IBM’s PowerVM virtualization method, compared to those using competitive offerings such as VMware. The areas examined span business and technical metrics, ranging from comprehensive cost components to time-to-market agility. The study correlated the technical components with their associated business metrics that show how different commercially available virtualization technologies compare across a broad set of IT business metrics including:

  • Customer satisfaction
  • Agility (time-to-market)
  • Total cost of ownership
  • IT stability and reliability
  • Staffing
  • Risk
  • System efficiency
  • Economies of Scale

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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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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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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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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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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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