Redefine your IT performance with leading virtualization

Are you thinking of refreshing your legacy Sun or HP-UX systems? Consider upgrading to IBM Power Systems.

Power Systems are running 3X to 7X more virtual images per production system than Oracle Sun, based on a study of over 60,000 customer sites¹. IBM’s advanced virtualization capability, PowerVM, enables you to get dramatically more efficient use of your IT infrastructure. PowerVM shows lower overall expenses by as much as 71% for larger organizations¹. 

Power Systems are designed for superior performance of mission critical workloads.  For example, Power Systems with DB2 performed three times faster than SPARC with Oracle Database, using the same number of cores, based on results from the two-tier SAP® Sales and Distribution (SD) standard application benchmark². 

With Power Systems you can tailor hardware and software support to meet your requirements per system. With Oracle Sun, one size fits all. All hardware is now required to have Premium level support. Or none.

Moreover, you can make the change with confidence.  IBM offers a long term roadmap backed by over 20 years of consistent delivery.

¹ “Does Your Virtualization Platform Matter? Getting the Most Out of Your IT Platforms with Virtualization “, Solitaire Interglobal, April 2012 . This document was developed with IBM funding. Download.

² Results on two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark, as of April 3, 2012: IBM Power 795 (32 processors, 256 cores, 1,024 threads) achieved 126,063 SAP SD benchmark users running the SAP enhancement package 4 for the SAP ERP application 6.0, AIX 7.1 and DB2 9.7; certification number 2010046 v. Oracle SPARC Enterprise Server M9000 (64 processors, 256 cores, 512 threads), which achieved 39,100 SAP SD benchmark users running SAP ERP 6.0, Solaris 10, Oracle 10g; certification number 2008042. SAP and all SAP logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and several other countries.