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In today's demanding workforce, everyone requires continuous and immediate access to information. IBM works closely with IBM DB2® engineers and leading database vendors like Microsoft® and Oracle® to ensure IBM System x, BladeCenter® and System Storage™ offerings are optimized to host data from the smallest department-level databases to massive enterprise data warehouses —reliably and economically for a dynamic, scalable infrastructure that helps you respond quickly to changing business demands.

Key benefits

IBM System x and BladeCenter servers built with X-Architecture® innovation offer proven mainframe-inspired server solutions providing industry-leading resiliency and availability.
System x enterprise servers provides extra processor, memory and I/O capacity to help simplify virtual-server deployments — especially when application requirements are growing or unpredictable.
BladeCenter integrates servers, storage and networking to help you save space, simplify IT management complexity and reduce costs associated with power and cooling.
Tiered storage offers improved efficiency and reduced cost by using a mix of storage systems with different performance and cost characteristics to match the requirements of different types of data.

Featured offerings

The IBM InfoSphere Balanced Warehouse™
The IBM InfoSphere Balanced Warehouse™ is a complete data warehousing solution comprised of pre-tested, scalable and fully-integrated system components designed to help reduce the complexity, cost and risk of designing, implementing and maintaining data warehouses for businesses large and small.

IBM DB2 9 for Linux UNIX and Windows
DB2 9 provides a scalable, high performance information management system that can compresses data to greatly reduce storage requirements — and can help to improve database performance for SAP and other popular applications.

Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 provides an agile database infrastructure that allows you to be more responsive to business challenges by providing capabilities to deploy, consolidate and manage line-of business, custom and business intelligence applications.

Oracle Database
Oracle Database delivers clustering, workload management and datacenter automation for flexible dynamic enterprise grid computing with high levels of scalability and reliability so you can respond faster to changing business needs and make better business decisions.

Featured customer success story

AGCO Fendt ploughs a new furrow for SAP with IBM System x and DB2 — AGCO Fendt's SAP HR system now runs on the two IBM System x servers — one for the production environment, and one for test and development. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager has also been implemented, to provide backup and recovery services.

Over the next three to four years, AGCO Fendt will gradually migrate more business-critical SAP systems — including financial accounting and production planning — to the new IBM System x and DB2 UDB platform. "With the migration of SAP HR to IBM System x, we have proved the value of the new platform," says Anton Seelos. "Configuration is fast and easy, and the Xeon processors offer excellent performance for our SAP software — at very low cost of ownership."