Smart IT Infrastructure
The backbone of a smarter business
You know a smarter business when you see one
You know a smart business when you see one. It's the retailer you turn to first because the merchandise is always original and available. The medical centre that coordinates your health records across 22 facilities. The power company that lets you set your own usage by appliance.
These advances are possible because digital intelligence can be infused into almost any object, process or natural system that makes up the way our world works. IBM is working with visionary organizations to use this intelligence to do almost everything—from traffic flows to electric power to food supply chains—more effectively.
While select systems are becoming smarter, the vast majority of the world's IT infrastructure—mobile devices, PCs, servers, data centres, software and the processes that make it all work—remain slow, inefficient and incapable of the work ahead. But there are new computing capabilities that can literally "reinvent" existing IT properties, making them leaner, flexible, resilient and smarter.
SOA
Often, the first step to an agile organization starts with connecting your applications in a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Yansha, a Chinese retailer, implemented the first SOA-based supply chain, reducing order lead time from 2.5 days to 4.5 hours.
Virtualization
Virtualization can dramatically improve server utilization. The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is transforming its systems through consolidation, standardization and virtualization. This has resulted in a 150% increase in processing capacity.
Service Management
Control all of your IT assets from one point, gain greater visibility into your system as a whole and grant your users control. It's possible... with service management.
Security
A smart infrastructure assumes security capabilities that are integrated across the organization, yet specialized enough to address a myriad of threats.
Dynamic Infrastructure
A dynamic infrastructure is designed to help clients integrate the growing intelligent business infrastructure with the necessary underlying design of a flexible, secure and seamlessly managed IT infrastructure.
New Enterprise Data Center (PDF, 2.02MB)
The heart of any infrastructure is the data centre. IBM's New Enterprise Data Center combines virtualization, energy efficiency and security capabilities.
Green technologies
With energy costs eating up 30-40% of the IT operations budget, green technologies are critical to any smart infrastructure strategy.
