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IBM® Systems Director Editions provide options to select the level of leading management solutions from IBM based on your needs - from basic hardware management to more advanced cross enterprise management. IBM Systems Director Editions are packaged to make it simpler, easier to deploy and more cost-effective to purchase the features needed to manage servers, storage and networks in your data center.
IBM offers integrated management solutions – from platform management through service management – to drive greater operational management efficiencies and break down the barriers that get in the way to achieving a Smarter Computing. IBM Systems Director Express, Standard and Enterprise Editions provide an integrated set of tools to enable your IT organization to address major concerns associated with managing both physical and virtual server infrastructures. Systems Director Editions significantly reduce operational complexity, dramatically improve the efficiency of IT staff and systems, and control costs while meeting demanding business requirements for service delivery.
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| Visualize physical/virtual system relationships1 |  |
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| Monitor system health1 | |
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| Provide threshold and error alerts1 | |
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| Update operating systems and firmware1 | |
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| Simplify deployment with virtual images1,2 | |
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| Control energy use within existing capacity | |
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| Monitor network system health with servers and storage | |
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| Automate configuration and placement for new workloads1 | |
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| Manage workload availability end-to-end | |
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| Understand capacity | |
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| Analyze and report historical performance | |
1 These features have been bundled into a special Systems Director edition available only for IBM PowerLinux. For more details please view System Management Solutions for IBM PowerLinux
2 Power and PowerLinux systems only
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IBM Systems Director: Optimized and simplified management of IT infrastructures
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"With IBM Systems Director, we get much better visibility of the status of every component, so we can react immediately and resolve issues before they actually affect the business." - Andrea Cicchirillo, IT Project Manager at KÖTTER Services
White papers
- IBM Systems Director: Platform Management Backbone and Baseline for Integrated Service Management
- IBM's Systems Director 6.3: Improved Usability, Installability, Functionality (433KB)
- IBM Systems Director VMControl: Advanced Multi-Platform Virtualization Management (589KB)
- Unleash the hidden power of IT (1.02MB)
Achieving business results through comprehensive systems management.
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IBM Systems Director ITG Paper (1.41MB)
Save up to 34% on server administration costs.
- Managing Complexity in the x86 Data Center: The User Experience (749KB)
Case studies
- KÖTTER Services gets proactive with data center management
- Burda Digital Systems gains flexibility, reliability and availability with IBM systems
- Zucchetti Group dramatically improves its customer service
- B C Jindal Group streamlines operations and cuts costs
- City & County Healthcare Group consolidates servers, gains a cloud-ready infrastructure
Videos
Webinars
See the new features and functions of IBM Systems Director 6.3. Watch the Webinar replay.
How unified platform management can optimize capital expenditures (capex), operating expenditures (opex)... and your organization (from Stratecast/Frost & Sullivan).
Articles and press release
- IBM Systems Director offers Heterogeneous Management of all IBM (plus other select) system resources — and serious capex/opex savings potential (237KB)
- Virtualization Management from IBM can help organizations take evolutionary, not revolutionary steps to the Cloud (465KB)
- IBM Systems Director's Active Energy Manager pours on systems management relief to cool raging energy costs, saving companies 15-50 percent per year (251KB)
- Investing in Smarter Systems: Systems Director delivers higher quality
- IBM Announces New Storage Systems Designed to Increase Efficiency; Optimized for Workloads such as Transaction Processing & Analytics
