Smarter computing

Consolidate

Consolidate workloads to improve economics

Are budgets requiring you to take a piecemeal approach to deploying IT solutions? Is your challenge related to complexity and sprawling IT? Are your IT costs spiraling out of control?

Consolidation of your IT infrastructure can help you reduce your total cost of ownership and transform your IT economics. With IBM's uniquely-tuned systems, you can do more with less by simplifying your IT infrastructure and:

• Reduce costs
• Contain server sprawl
• Manage data center complexity
• Enable workload growth, streamline management
• Improve your response time and agility
• Prepare for cloud services

Client example

Nattura Labs (US)

30 percent TCO reduction

• Leader in hair care marketplace
• Seeking to simplify and reduce costs, consolidated its legacy IT infrastructure to IBM systems
• Reduced IT workloads by 30-40 percent

Optimise

Optimise existing workloads to improve performance

You can re-evaluate your infrastructure to determine how your current and future workloads can run more efficiently and to a higher performance level.

IBM offers a range of systems and storage solutions that are optimised for different domain-specific workloads. With them you can redeploy existing workloads to the right systems and:

• Reduce costs
• Improve workload performance
• Improve storage efficiency
• Meet customer service levels as demand grows

Client example

Nationwide Insurance (US)

$15 million savings

• Leading insurance provider
• Facing the need for a new datacenter due to server sprawl, decided to optimise workloads instead, deploying virtualised IBM systems

Innovate

Deploy new workloads

Deploying new workloads provides the perfect opportunity to explore next-generation systems that can fundamentally change both the experience and economics of IT. Our newest class of expert integrated systems combines the flexibility of general purpose system, the elasticity of cloud and the simplicity of an appliance. DeepQA systems (think “Watson”) integrate natural language processing with predictive root-cause analysis to redefine the role of IT. With these advanced systems you can:

• Radically simplify the delivery of IT
• Deploy new applications and services more rapidly
• Accelerate time to value with embedded expertise

Client example

Primerica (US)

Servicing 2.4M+ customers

• Financial services provider
• Deployed new core workloads and re-deployed existing Cognos workloads on IBM systems
• Driving innovation with new services that enable sales agents to research customers, and verify new insurance policies in less than 30 seconds