Start your virtualisation journey with IBM

In an increasingly connected world, the number of transactions and volume of information put ever increasing demands on your IT infrastructure. Customers are seeking a flexible IT infrastructure that can keep pace with demand. On a Smarter Planet, organisations are deploying virtualised infrastructures to improve their business agility. Virtualisation with integrated service management enables a smarter infrastructure that can help you:

• Consolidate and share resources, unshackling your physical infrastructure.
• Bring together new and existing resources to enable a more agile, business-centric infrastructure.
• Deliver low-cost services where and when needed to meet business goals and objectives.

Unlock the value from virtualisation with IBM

With deep expertise, proven methodology and a comprehensive and integrated portfolio of solutions designed to enable and support virtualisation, IBM is uniquely equipped to help you meet these objectives. IBM approaches transformation from a holistic perspective with smarter systems, software and services, enabling virtualisation not only at the platform level, but also across operating systems and middleware to flexibly realign people, processes and technology. The result is a more efficient and effective infrastructure. IBM advantages include:

• Ability to extend consolidation and virtualisation beyond your machine assets to include storage, networks, desktops and applications to respond to changes in service demands with flexibility.
• Virtualisation solutions that are hypervisor neutral, giving you the flexibility to integrate IBM hypervisors and other x86 hypervisors without vendor lock-in.
• Integrated service management providing increased visibility, control and automation for virtualised environments to help you deploy and manage workloads more effectively and efficiently.
• A consultative approach leveraging experience from thousands of customer engagements to help you define and execute virtualisation projects.
• Platforms tuned to better support virtualised environments, enabling greater virtual system density and higher performance needed to virtualise demanding production workloads.
• Rich platform management functions capable of simplifying and unifying the management of physical infrastructure with virtual environments across multiple virtualisation technologies and hardware platforms.
• Solutions which can be tailored to fit any size business and any business need with a comprehensive portfolio helping to optimise all facets of your business services.
• Widest variety of deployment models including IBM-hosted, private (behind your firewall) or hybrid cloud delivery models.

IBM can help you with various aspects of virtualisation and integrated service management based on your unique needs to:

• Consolidate resources
• Manage workloads
• Automate processes
• Optimise delivery