IBM Power Systems solutions

UNIX, Linux, and IBM i solutions for your business


Why IBM Power Systems solutions

Whether you’re looking for traditional solutions such as ERP and transaction processing or smarter computing solutions that are workload optimized, IBM and IBM Business Partner solutions help you keep an eye on tomorrow while making sure current operations don't miss a beat today.

Solution providers

IBM has formed alliances with several technology partners to develop solutions that can help your organization deliver value in every area of your business. POWER7 servers provide high scalability and performance by taking advantage of workload optimized technologies – resulting in an ideal platform for ISV solutions to be optimized with IBM middleware.

PowerLinux solutions

Linux. PowerLinux solutions are optimized to deliver high value Linux services, and are specifically designed to bring the capabilities of POWER7 to customers of competitive x86. These capabilities enable businesses to reduce cost with solutions that are more powerful than x86 Linux, more scalable than VMware, and more reliable than Windows. PowerLinux solutions are tuned to the tasks of big data analytics, industry application solutions, and Linux applications services.

Business Analytics solutions

IBM delivers the most comprehensive information integration platform for key initiatives such as warehousing, application consolidation/retirement, single view, information governance, big data and application improvement so organizations can speed time to value, reduce integration costs and increase information quality.

  • IBM Smart Analytics System
  • IBM Smart Analytics System 7710
  • IBM i for Business Intelligence

Cloud computing solutions

With extraordinary quality of service, simple workload optimization and advanced virtualization, IBM Power Systems cloud solutions are designed to help you improve service delivery, enable business innovation and reduce costs with extreme scale.

  • Power Systems Cloud solutions
  • IBM SmartCloud Entry on Power Systems
  • IBM Service Delivery Manager
  • IBM Workload Deployer

IBM PureFlex System

The PureFlex System™ combines compute, storage, networking, virtualization and management into a single infrastructure system that is expert at sensing and anticipating resource needs to optimize your infrastructure.

Collaboration solutions

IBM unified communication and collaboration software on IBM Power™ Systems solutions are designed to help make your business more social, provide an immediate and cost effective way to take action across your organization and with business partners and customers -- resulting in more efficient and effective one-on-one communication, team collaboration and business process execution, and reduced business cost.

  • IBM Lotus Sametime
  • IBM Lotus Domino
  • IBM Lotus Quickr
  • IBM Lotus portals and dashboards

Additional Power Systems solutions

  • Designed from conception for optimal performance, scalability and quick time-to-value, your IT shop can benefit from pre-integration of the operating system and IBM software and often, pre-installation on Power Systems.

IBM AIX Solution Editions
IBM AIX Solution Editions combine the experience and expertise of IBM and Independent Software Vendors in building business value with your IT investments. Combining Power systems with AIX, PowerVM and selected ISV business applications can help your business grow quickly and efficiently.

IBM i Solution Editions
The IBM i Solution Editions are designed to help you save time and money by taking advantage of the combined experience and expertise of IBM and independent software vendors (ISVs).

IBM i CBU with PowerHA
A packaged solution that is easy to order and easy to implement, a perfect choice for improving your current Disaster Recovery (DR) approach from tape backup to the fast recovery times available with a secondary system.

IBM Rational Power Appliance
The IBM Rational Power Appliance enables rapid delivery of popular Eclipse-based application development tools for individual and team-based AIX developers with three simple POWER7 configurations. These tools include the latest Rational compilers for AIX, optimized for POWER7, providing increased performance for custom business solutions.

Business Intelligence solutions
IBM Power System solutions for Business Intelligence can accelerate deployment of a data warehouse or analytics application, and grow with you in a cost-effective manner while providing a level of performance and reliability that enable timelier and more effective business decisions.

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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 Oracle and HP UNIX clients have migrated to POWER. Learn how Power Systems has helped them improve their business performance, reduce risk, and establish a more secure future.

IBM Solutions Editions

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Open source infrastructure

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