Virtualization

While significantly increased IT utilization is the primary advantage, virtualization enables IT managers to recapture valuable floor space. With fewer physical machines to operate, companies have realized dramatic savings on power, cooling, management and other infrastructure costs.

IBM helps you reduce costly downtime, free up staff, minimize licensing costs, automate operations and get more value from your IT investments with innovative solutions, software, services and platforms for meeting your virtualization requirements.

For example, through the use of IBM virtualization capabilities, a medical center reported $US 80M in capital and operational cost savings and a 220% increase in capacity--without increasing support staff.

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It also enables you to dynamically refine the way resources are assigned so that they continually meet service level agreements.

For example, the manager of Linux at a large Insurance company told us: "With the virtualized infrastructure, we can provision servers literally in minutes...Rapid provisioning lets us try things that we'd never have considered attempting before...It promotes out-of-the-box thinking because the risk cost is so low. What virtualization really gives us is a strong foundation for innovation."

Despite offering many advantages, one challenge virtualization presents is the difficulty of managing a virtual infrastructure layered over a physical infrastructure. IBM management solutions provide visibility, control and automation you need to effectively manage your virtualized environments, delivering an integrated solution to manage your resources, dynamic workloads, and services.

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Early virtualization adopters have reduced IT complexity and increased resilience in their IT infrastructures. Managing and securing data without affecting its availability has been a long-standing IT challenge. Now, there is a compelling answer--virtualization.

Today's challenging business environments require solutions that ensure information availability and recovery at the best possible speed. IBM virtualization capabilities include solutions that are designed to deliver near zero downtime operation for companies' IT infrastructures.

For example, a major shoe manufacturer, believes: "The centralized infrastructure provided by IBM saves on costs and ensures that our operations are maintained even in the event of a catastrophe."

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