It’s time to start thinking differently about your IT infrastructure
Most IT infrastructure in midsized companies is underutilized. Experience tells us that it is often difficult to manage, pushing operational cost and complexity to unsustainable and uncompetitive levels. IBM has the portfolio of Express Advantage offerings including systems, storage, services, software and real-world experience to build a truly dynamic infrastructure that can help you reduce cost.
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IBM Power Systems IBM BladeCenter IBM System x IBM Storage Information Infrastucture IBM Power Systems - with POWER6™ processor technology, can run AIX®, IBM i, and Linux® operating systems simultaneously on a single system, setting new standards for performance, availability and efficiency. Learn more (US) IBM BladeCenter - is built on IBM X-Architecture, our blueprint for bringing innovation to x86 systems. Unlike stand-alone servers that need multiple power supplies and fans, individual systems management, numerous cables and a lot of space, IBM BladeCenter is compact and easy to use. The blade contains all the necessities to run an application including processors, memory, I/O and storage. Learn more (US) IBM System x - has announced new rack and tower servers built on IBM X-Architecture with outstanding performance and new, ultra-energy efficient designs. These servers integrate the new generation of blazing fast Intel Xeon 5500 series processors. Learn more (US) IBM Storage Information Infrastructure - brings together a breadth of solutions designed to help you manage the information explosion, streamline costs, improve service delivery, and mitigate risks. Learn more (US)
- VIRTUALIZATION
IBM Power Systems IBM BladeCenter IBM System x IBM Storage Information Infrastucture IBM Power Systems with PowerVM - provides the ability to pool and share system resources reducing IT expense and improving TCO. Power Systems re-balance workload demands automatically; re-provisioning system resources wherever and whenever needed, without having to constantly monitor system operations. Learn more (US) IBM BladeCenter - Consolidate and simplify your Linux®, UNIX®/AIX®, IBM i and Windows® workloads with IBM BladeCenter — the most comprehensive server virtualization solution in the industry. IBM System x - Consolidating and virtualizing on IBM System x servers enables you to increase hardware utilization while decreasing the existing physical number of servers. This translates into real dollar savings through lower energy and IT resource usage. IBM San Volume Controller (SVC) - can help increase utilization by more than 30% and save up to 50% in administration and management costs. Learn more (US)
- PERFORMANCE AND SCALABILITY
IBM Power Systems IBM BladeCenter IBM System x IBM Storage Information Infrastructure IBM Power Systems - offer outstanding performance and take the lead in over 70 key computing performance benchmarks.
Learn more (US)IBM BladeCenter HS22 – experience increased performance with the new 2-socket, 30mm blade based the new Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 series. Process up to twice as many transactions per minute on the HS22 as compared to its predecessor.
Learn more (US)IBM x3650 M2 and IBM x3550 M2 - have over 60% higher SPECint score vs. the previous generation processor; up to 2x the virtualization performance on VMmark benchmark vs. previous the generation processor; and more than double (118%) performance on floating point benchmark.
Learn more (US)IBM System Storage DS5000 – disk storage delivering industry-leading performance with up to 2X the performance of EMC CX3.
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- ENERGY EFFICIENCY
IBM Power Systems IBM BladeCenter IBM System x IBM Storage Information Infrastructure IBM Power Systems - with POWER6™ EnergyScale technology helps drive down energy consumption. IBM System Director, Active Energy Manager™ assists customers in monitoring energy consumption and improves utilization of available energy resources. Learn more (US) IBM BladeCenter S - is designed to facilitate impressive compute power in an energy efficient package. It can be up to 50% more energy efficient than rack or tower servers. BladeCenter S can help you reduce both your power and cooling costs. Learn more (US) IBM x3650 M2 and IBM x3550 M2 servers - with new energy smart design and efficiency can reduce operational costs over $ 100 per server per year.
These System x servers consume up to 25% less power when fully utilized, up achieve up to 60% reduction when idle vs. previous generation processors. .IBM System Storage TS3500 Tape Library - can lower data retention costs by up to 60%, including energy, space and maintenance costs by deploying a blended storage architecture of disk and high performance, high density tape storage. Learn more (US)
Find out more about IBM Express Advantage servers and storage for medium business
| IBM’s strategy for dynamic infrastructure (US) (PDF, 116KB) |
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| BladeCenter Readiness Tool (are blades right for you?) (US) |
| Security Assessment Tool for mid-size companies (link resides outside of ibm.com) |
| IBM Financing (US) |
| IBM Migration Factory (US) |
| Top Midmarket Innovators Report (US) (PDF, 613KB) |
| Client success stories (US) |
| ForwardView e-Magazine (US) |
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