End-to-end virtualization

The Goals

With the number of applications in your portfolio growing every day, you can’t afford to add a new server and storage system for each new workload. Server consolidation and storage consolidation with virtualization can help you optimize your IT resources. With virtualization, you can reduce the number of servers, storage, desktop, and network devices to reduce complexity and make IT management simpler. You can also reduce electricity used to power and cool these systems and save on floor space in your data center.

The Advantages

IBM offers a range of server consolidation and storage consolidation solutions – along with services to support planning, implementation and ongoing operations. With support for a range of hypervisors and virtualization technologies, these offerings can offer your business a number of advantages.

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 virtualization with features such as extended memory, active memory failover, advanced RAS and others, thereby optimizing service levels.
• Leverage advanced application and data migration tools to help save time and minimize 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 virtualization options designed to meet current and emerging challenges.