IBM Up to 70% reduced memory pricing makes it even easier to cut operational costs with Power Systems

IBM Up to 70% reduced memory pricing makes it even easier to cut operational costs with Power Systems
In today’s economy IT managers often feel as if they’re walking a tightrope. Take one step: manage costs and maximize ROI from IT investments. Take the next step: keep critical business applications performing at the highest levels possible. With each step try to strike just the right balance between cost and performance in the data center. A proven strategy for achieving this goal is virtualized system consolidation. Consolidation can enable immediate cost saving by reducing energy requirements, saving necessary floor space, reducing operational and administrative cost. It can also help deliver optimized workload performance.
Power = ROI – sprawl
IBM Power Systems virtualization solutions offer proven capabilities to support the most efficient use of computing resources while still providing the application performance your customers, employees and partners demand. As virtualization use increases, the demand for memory increases as well. As customers consolidate more workloads from SPARC, Itanium and x86 onto Power Systems, the long-term benefit of these consolidation solutions has become clear and companies like yours need the bottom line results. Your procurement officer is looking at acquisition cost. Your CFO is concerned about time to return on investment. IBM has heard these concerns and is making a major move to ensure companies find it even more attractive to consolidate on Power Systems.
Beginning November 17, 2009 in the US and Canada, and by November 24, 2009 in most other countries, IBM is lowering the price of Power Systems memory features by up to 70%, helping to lower the hardware cost of a powerful and more efficient virtualization solution by up to 41%. Consider as an example a current Sun customer who would like to consolidate 25 Sun Fire V490 and V890 servers with 128 cores running database applications and another 128 cores running other applications. That customer could consolidate onto two IBM Power 550 Express servers. Another option would be to consolidate on 8 HP blade servers, but that would have a cost of $1,000,000 more in the first year alone.1 This isn’t a promotion, but a permanent price reduction. IBM is committed to offering lower total cost of acquisition to help you accelerate a return on your investment — and realize even greater savings from virtualization and consolidation on Power Systems.
IBM Power Systems virtualization solutions built on PowerVM offer proven capabilities to support the most efficient use of computing resources while still providing the application performance your customers, employees and partners demand. Virtualization and consolidation have become key tools in the cost/performance IT equation. By consolidating smaller systems onto larger, more powerful systems, you can save floor space, energy costs and administration effort.
Now with IBM Power Systems virtualization solutions, you get:
Uncompromised virtualization performance with PowerVM
Proven, reliable IBM technology built on POWER processors
High availability and disaster recovery with PowerHA SystemMirror
Industry leading virtualization management capabilities with IBM Systems Director VMControl
Legendary IBM service and support
And you get it all at a lower cost than ever before. In 2009, hundreds of customers have switched from Sun or HP to IBM Power Systems for their critical business applications. To find out more contact your IBM representative, Business Partner, Mid-Blue International Ltd on 01322 407000