To adapt and succeed in today’s dynamic business environment, you need a dynamic IT infrastructure. To be dynamic then means to be continually focused on:
- infrastructure efficiency and reducing costs
- responsiveness to the business and improving service
- effectively managing risk to ensure security, scalability and availability
A dynamic infrastructure is smart—it takes advantage of the intelligence gained across the network and throughout your business to help you compete and excel.
Reduce costs
In today’s financial climate, reducing costs is the top priority for CIOs – not just driving down costs overall, but using IT resources more efficiently. This imperative requires not just incremental improvements in savings or cost reductions, but dramatic improvements in total cost of ownership – leveraging:
- standardization
- alternative service delivery models
- energy efficiency
- virtualization
- consolidation
System x® and BladeCenter® servers and tools are designed with improved efficiency and cooling to lower costs by reducing energy usage in your datacenter. System x and BladeCenter servers can help cut costs with technologies that not only increase performance per watt, but also help plan and control their power usage. And by consolidating and virtualizing on IBM System x and BladeCenter servers, you can increase the utilization of hardware and decrease the number of physical assets in your datacenter, potentially saving you money.
Improve service
Your business faces increasingly savvy customers and a proliferation of agile competitors. To build a smarter planet and win in today’s fast-paced business landscape, you need to transform your service delivery models to achieve superior, differentiated delivery of goods and services. Smarter service delivery requires:
- comprehensive visibility into the full breadth of business and IT assets that support services
- effective control over those assets as well as the business processes they enable
- extensive automation of these processes so that services can be delivered more reliably and economically
Combining open, industry standards with deep business experience and renowned research capabilities, the IBM X-Architecture blueprint equips System x and BladeCenter servers with innovative technology, such as IBM Systems Director 6.1, making IT simpler and more reliable. These capabilities can help support growth - both of your business and your datacenter.
Manage risk
Global expansion, emerging technologies and the rising volume and sophistication of new threats have increased the demand for improved security and resiliency measures for businesses of all sizes. By enhancing security and resiliency, IT becomes more responsive and better prepared to meet the needs of the business. Critical risk reduction issues include:
- infrastructure security and resiliency
- information and data protection
- regulatory compliance
Proactive, secure, integrated tools provided by System x and BladeCenter—for tracking and deploying assets, optimizing performance and even enabling remote maintenance—provide a single, secure, consistent interface to manage your IT. An intelligent system design that includes multiple layers of redundancy, memory protection and advanced availability tools provides the critical resiliency you need.
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