Historically, workloads have been tied to dedicated hardware resources, resulting in over-provisioned, under utilised infrastructure and costly operating inefficiencies. Virtualisation allows you to consolidate and flexibly subdivide available server, storage and network capacity to create multiple virtual systems. The result is a more agile infrastructure that can deploy multiple workloads onto fewer hardware resources.

With a cohesive portfolio of systems, software and service offerings designed to exploit virtualisation, IBM is able to help your organisation plan and implement a consolidation strategy tailored your needs.

Support ongoing cost savings

• Enable more efficient capital expenditure with platforms that are designed to host among the highest numbers of virtual machines in the industry.
• Avoid vendor lock-in by using hypervisor neutral solutions.
• Lower power, cooling and floor space requirements with advanced green technologies and management software.

Improve service delivery

• Enable rapid deployment of new virtual systems and new workloads with assessment, design, and implementation services.
• Choose from the widest range of servers and storage portfolios in the industry tuned to virtualisation with features such as extended memory, active memory failover, advanced RAS and others, thereby optimising service levels.
• Leverage advanced application and data migration tools to help save time and minimise operational disruption.

Increase business agility

• Reduce infrastructure complexity with highly dense virtual machines coupled with leading RAS features to free up IT to respond more quickly to business needs.
• Facilitate easier integration of heterogeneous environments for an ideal mix of technologies to address your service objectives.
• Leverage a broad ecosystem of virtualisation options designed to meet current and emerging challenges.