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 solutions to be of particular value.
Server virtualization
Virtualization can help by shifting the functionality of many servers onto fewer servers. With virtualization, organizations can gain greater control of their infrastructure, and can improve cost management. IBM offers a rich, diverse and integrated array of virtualization solutions, spanning from x86 systems to System z mainframes as well as the services and software necessary to allow organizations to streamline the management of computing environment and reduce maintenance and support costs by consolidating IT infrastructure. IBM’s experience is unequaled in the industry.
Storage virtualization for a dynamic Information Infrastructure
Virtualization separates the “logical” and physical locations of information, which helps make information more readily available for business applications, regardless of changes to the physical infrastructure. With a virtualized information infrastructure organizations can drive greater and more effective utilization of storage assets, enable greater flexibility and responsiveness to rapidly changing business demands – and significantly simplify the underlying infrastructure.
Application Infrastructure Virtualization
One of the key aspects of a dynamic infrastructure is the flexibility of the application server middleware to re-configure the services on the fly to address new requirements or sudden shifts in demand. Application virtualization is a critical step toward dynamic infrastructure. It increases flexibility and agility to ensure business process integrity, improve service and application performance, and better manage application health.
End-user / client virtualization
IBM Virtual Infrastructure Access Services is a unique end-user virtualization solution that helps you transform your distributed IT architectures into virtualized, open-standards-based frameworks leveraging centralized IT services. It provides security-rich access for your end users to applications, information and resources — anytime, anywhere.
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