By virtualizing storage and server infrastructure, you can move away from a vertical approach to a more integrated IT environment. IBM is a leader in virtualization with the ability to virtualize our clients’ infrastructures across not only servers, but networking and storage devices as well. Virtualization can help enable benefits such as:
Significant cost reductions and increased asset utilization
Shared infrastructure that leverages common tools and increases business resilience
Increased flexibility through shared resource pools that help mask infrastructure complexity
Today, virtualization technology benefits businesses of all sizes. Many IBM clients taking advantage of server and storage virtualization are small and midsize businesses. They find the improved management and TCO offered by IBM Virtualization to be of particular value.
Server virtualization
Server virtualization allows a physical server to be partitioned to run multiple secure virtual servers. This creates an opportunity to consolidate physical servers, thus helping to reduce hardware acquisition and management costs. IBM’s heritage in server virtualization reaches back 40 years to the mainframe. Today we offer solutions for Microsoft® Windows®, UNIX® and Linux® consolidation.
IBM System Storage™ solutions combine the power of our storage virtualization and IBM Tivoli® storage management software to help you reduce the complexity and costs of managing your storage area network (SAN)-based storage.
Virtualization capabilities of IBM WebSphere® Extended Deployment enable you to run mixed application types and workload patterns. With these capabilities, you can optimize the resource utilization and management of your IT infrastructure while enhancing the quality of service for your critical applications.
