Virtualization Networking

Your network and maximizing the benefits of virtualization

Virtualization of IT resources can deliver wide ranging benefits from space and energy savings and reduced operations costs to enabling IT to rapidly respond to new services demands or peaks in demand. Networks will play an essential role. They must meet more stringent network performance and availability requirements to enable fast reliable access to virtualized resources. They need to provide the flexibility and responsiveness that allow workloads to be moved around for most efficient use of IT resources. And they have to deliver robust security to ensure information is protected and shared only with trusted users. Getting the network right is critical to realizing the benefits of virtualization.

Optimal network availability and performance

These new demands on networks require a new approach. Networks need to be planned, designed and implemented as an integral part of storage, server and application virtualization. IBM can help. Network optimization services from IBM can help you build your network to better meet the high-availability, high-performance and security requirements for your virtualized environments. Taking a holistic approach, we help you understand, plan for and satisfy dynamic networking demands with a flexible, robust and resilient data center network design and expertly managed implementation.

Easing network challenges

IBM Networking Strategy, Optimization and Integration Services provide the networking expertise to help you assess - and proactively plan for the network that will meet the needs of your consolidation or virtualization initiatives. With over 30 years experience architecting, designing and integrating servers, storage, networks and management solutions in the data center, IBM brings proven methodologies and extensive technology partner relationships to help improve the success of your virtualization projects.

IBM has hardware, software, and services to help you optimize your network. For more information:

• Networking for a dynamic infrastructure with IBM

Assessment and planning

• Networking strategy and optimization services:
  • Network infrastructure optimization for consolidation and virtualization

Design and integration

• Network integration services for data center networks:
  • Consolidation and virtualization
  • Data and storage network convergence

Managed services

• Managed network services
• Threat mitigation services - network protection - managed protection services

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