Power Systems Cloud solutions

Highlights

• Improve performance and scalability by optimizing workload based IT assets to ensure the ideal elasticity of your cloud.
• Enterprise quality of service (QOS) virtualization provides the best foundation for your cloud’s mission-critical applications.
• Automated management, provisioning and optimization of your resources ensure optimal utilization for changing demands.
• Self-service portal and standardized service catalog leverage the features of your cloud to enable automated delivery of services without IT intervention.
• Breadth of solutions to help customers at any point in their cloud journey.

The unprecedented interest and projected IT spend on cloud computing is coming from all types of organizations, businesses and governments that are seeking to transform the way they deliver IT services and improve workload optimization so they can quickly respond to changing business demands. Cloud computing can significantly reduce IT costs and complexities while improving asset utilization, workload optimization and service delivery.

Today’s IT Infrastructures face challenges on many levels; typically they:

• Are composed of silos that lead to disconnected business and IT infrastructures
• Contain static islands of computing, which result in inefficiencies and underutilized assets
• Struggle with rapid data growth, regulatory compliance, integrity and security
• Face continuous rise of IT administration costs

As a result of these challenges, organizations are looking towards a Smarter Computing infrastructure and are demanding from IT a service delivery model that enables growth and innovation while lowering overall IT costs. An effective cloud computing environment built with IBM Power Systems™ cloud solutions helps organizations transform their data centers to meet these challenges; it:

• Delivers integrated visibility, control and automation across all business and IT assets
• Is highly optimized and scales IT up and down in line with business needs
• Addresses the information challenge by delivering flexible and secure access to data and mitigating risk.
• Utilizes flexible delivery models, automation and virtualization to greatly simplify IT service delivery and provide enterprise QOS capabilities including higher application availability, improved performance, more scalability and enterprise-class security

Power Systems cloud solutions allow customers to build an effective cloud computing environment, enabling them to reduce IT costs, improve service delivery and foster business innovation.