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IBM Systems and SAP. Delivering business performance computingIBM Systems and SAP. Delivering business performance computing

IBM Servers and IBM System Storage™ offer robust, reliable powerhouses for every size business and SAP infrastructure environment. These award winning products combined with IBM's comprehensive Systems Software solutions help to centralize, streamline and automate your physical and virtual infrastructure, allowing you to optimize workloads and increase your ability to deliver IT services that align with business goals.

IBM PureSystems is a new family of Expert Integrated Systems with four main customer initiatives: Consolidate, Optimize, Innovate and Accelerate Cloud. The PureSystems family of Expert Integrated Systems will provide SAP customers with the next generation infrastructure for SAP solutions designed for simplicity, yet with advanced integration to SAP technology. SAP customers can run their applications on one system that includes AIX, Linux, IBM i or Microsoft Windows operating systems with integrated storage management. Moreover, the system is built on decades of expertise, enabling deep integration and central management of the comprehensive, open-choice infrastructure system. Some customers call this new family of PureSystems a "Data Center in a Box." Below are links with more information for SAP applications on IBM PureSystems.

The revolutionary new design of the IBM zEnterprise™ System addresses the complexity and inefficiency of today's multi-architecture data centers by giving you the ability to integrate and unify IBM System z, Power and System x resources as one complete system. The IBM System z Solution Edition for SAP Applications, provides an integrated and robust platform for deploying new SAP functions that is designed to provide a flexible, scalable, secure environment designed to support your evolving SAP requirements. See more on the winning combination of IBM System z and SAP business solutions or Or get details on consolidating SAP infrastructures on IBM zEnterprise.

IBM BladeCenter plays an integral role in your SAP environment and can integrate SAP application and database servers, storage and networking to help you reduce complexity, simplify IT management and reduce power and cooling costs through a flexible and highly scalable design. Choose from the latest high performance Intel® Xeon® processors, IBM POWER™ processors and AMD Opteron™ processors. Mix and Match the computing power to your solution requirements and diverse computing workloads. Learn more about IBM BladeCenter and SAP solutions

IBM System x servers are excellent SAP application and database servers. The IBM System x portfolio of highly reliable servers for Windows® and Linux® are designed to help use less power while scaling quickly, easily and inexpensively-perfectly suited for large enterprises using SAP Business Suite, SAP HANA ™ as well as small- to mid-sized businesses using SAP All-in-One or Business One who need power, performance, business-critical reliability, improved scalability, enhanced system management, and reliability at an affordable price. Learn more about IBM System x and SAP solutions

IBM introduces new POWER7® processor-based systems, software and solutions for companies of all sizes. New high-end offerings redefine computing to address the challenges of a smarter planet — large scale business analytics and databases, high volume transaction processing, and consolidation to exponentially lower costs. New Express systems for midsize businesses offer attractively priced servers and upgrades, combined with IBM System Software provide proven capabilities to simplify server rooms while positioning companies for future growth.

From entry to enterprise systems, these easy-to-administer, integrated business servers provide a sturdy platform for launching your SAP solutions. Many customers know the history of IBM i to be AS/400, iSeries and Power i servers. The IBM i platform provides customers the easiest to manage server platform for SAP with a history and reputation for reliability, performance, scalability and ease of system management.

  • The IBM i Solution Editions bring significant value to SAP customers by reducing implementation and management time, increasing availability and supporting multiple workloads
  • IBM Quick Install for SAP is designed to deliver a low cost of ownership through:

    • Fast implementation with out-of-the-box installation.
    • A preconfigured and customized industry specific solution.
    • An end-to-end installation that saves you installation time and reduces your implementation costs.

Additional Resources

Webcast from SAP TechEd LasVegas 2011 Shall I Stay or Shall I Go ... to x86? Technical Factors and Considerations

Webcast from SAP TechEd LasVegas 2011 How to Move SAP HANA from the Sandbox to the Main Stream

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