Today, system performance must be defined by a set of attributes critical to both technology and business metrics

• You need to reduce power consumption, but your applications still must perform
• You need to scale your applications as your business demands
• You have to handle transactions quickly, but they also need to be accurate and reliable

To achieve lower costs and higher performance requires a balancing act. Smarter performance means balanced systems built to scale flexibly and efficiently, coupled more closely than ever with smarter software to deliver an environment optimized for the business.

IBM offers a range of systems designed to meet your needs today that can also efficiently scale to meet your needs in the future:

• IBM® System x® servers combine x86 industry standards with IBM innovation, resulting in increased efficiency, performance and ease of use. They are available in a variety of form factors from large-scale data center installations—including blades—and are flexible enough to match specific business requirements.
• IBM Power Systems™ offer scalable performance options including blades and easy-to-grow modular servers, with efficient virtualization for server consolidation and lower cost, workload optimization for rapid cloud infrastructure deployment, and a broad range of business solutions based on AIX®, IBM i and Linux®
• IBM System z® servers provide the world's fastest and most scalable enterprise system, designed to reduce the cost, complexity and inefficiency of today's multiarchitecture data centers while delivering the availability, security and manageability needed to make tomorrow's clouds ready for business today.