IBM Power Systems & BladeCenter Product Family
IBM BladeCenter (PowerBlades) |
IBM Power Systems |
The Server for Medium-Sized Businesses
The ability to consolidate and manage multiple workloads on one IBM Power Systems dramatically reduces the total cost of ownership (TOC) and increases the return on investment (ROI).Medium sized companies face the challenge, because of growing business, of supporting hundreds of end users in one or more locations. Typically, their IT departments and teams do not grow with the company. The lack of specific IT skills and smaller IT staffs as well as limited IT budgets, add to the medium sized company’s challenges. IBM System i was developed specifically to consolidate workloads efficiently on one system. IT infrastructure, web infrastructure, databank based processes, development, or business applications are all part of the System i workload “pie.”
Lowest Total Cost of Ownership – Lower Entry Pricing
IDC’s market researchers of confirm: System i is the hardware-platform with the lowest TCO when compared to diverse Windows, Linux and Unix servers. With the introduction of the server models Express 515 and 525, IBM reduced the entry price ranges by using user based pricing.The IDC report confirms the benefits of System i: “System i requires less staff than its predecessors for system management and operation than other server types; has significantly less downtime; supports more users and workloads; and lower maintenance cost result in lower total cost of ownership.”
More information can be found about the benefits of System i in the IDC White Paper “The Business Value of IBM System i in Midsize Business Deployments”, 2007:
