IT-Informatik Client Reference Video

Published on 08-May-2009

Industry:
Computer Services

Deployment country:
Germany

Solution:
Enabling Business Flexibility, Energy Efficiency, Enterprise Resource Planning, Information Infrastructure, Linux, Linux for Power, Operational Management, Optimizing IT, Server Consolidation, Systems & Network Management

Overview

IT-Informatik chose IBM Power Systems servers, leveraging IBM PowerVM technologies to run SAP applications under Linux in separate virtual partitions (LPARs). Data is stored in a SAN built around IBM System Storage DS4700 hardware, managed by IBM Tivoli Storage Manager.

Business need:
IT-Informatik wanted to be able to offer SAP application hosting services to its mid-market clients. The company needed to find a hardware infrastructure that would maximise security, flexibility, and ease of management. The complete package was intended to make the latest SAP NetWeaver-based applications attractive to smaller companies that otherwise might not consider them as a viable option for their business.

Solution:
IT-Informatik chose IBM Power Systems servers, leveraging IBM PowerVM technologies to run SAP applications under Linux in separate virtual partitions (LPARs). Data is stored in a SAN built around IBM System Storage DS4700 hardware, managed by IBM Tivoli Storage Manager.

Benefits:
PowerVM enables new LPARs to be created within minutes, making it 80 per cent quicker to set up new SAP ERP environments for clients. Virtualization also ensures high utilization of IT resources – minimizing the number of physical servers that need to be managed. This reduces administrative effort for staff, and saves on further investments in hardware. The new servers save more than 65 per cent of the data center space that would be required by a traditional non-virtualized environment.

Video

Video Transcript

The New Power Equation

Ulm, Germany
IT-Informatick and IBM Power Solution

Achim Schuetz, SAP Director
IT-Informatik

[0:10] Ulm is a very old town with a very old cathedral and in contrast to that we have a science park with very new technology so with a few footsteps your from the middle age to the next century.

[0:28] IT-Informatik is a full service provider. We do everything from selling hardware, selling stand out software, programming individual software, and in the end we do the consulting for your business processes.

Jochen Wohrle, System Architect
IT-Informatik

[0:43] We started the relationship with IBM with the running SAP system in a Linux environment on the Power Systems platform.

So with that good experience we decided to go further in this platform and now we are doing hosting services on Power 6.

Achim Schuetz, SAP Director

[1:10] With the power solution we have the hardware and infrastructure to meet the requirements from very small customers to very big customers.

Every big customer started as a small one.

Together with these technologies we can handle nearly every size of customer and every dynamic size of customer.

[1:34] The DS4700 is our reliable storage layer. It gives us the performance to handle the peaks. We don’t have a peak problem with Power 6, we don’t have a peak problem with Power 5, and we don’t have a peak problem in storage.

[1:51] The power solution is designed for virtualization. There is no need to have dedicated hardware for every peak so we save a lot of headroom. It’s very easy to manage our virtual environment.

Jochen Wohrle, System Architect

[2:03] Our customers are all satisfied with our hosting solutions because they get the power they want at every time, so they are really happy to be in this hosting environment.

[2:13] We can do our SAP hosting in just one way, because the new speed of new Power 6 models, we are able to do hosting in a small footprint.

Achim Schuetz, SAP Director

[2:34] With the Dynamic Infrastructure based on Power Solution we can meet the business needs of our customers.

[2:38] If we want out customers to grow we have to give them the possibility to grow. With IBM we can scale from very very small customers to very big customers.

Jochen Wohrle, System Architect

[2:52] We save the money in our hosting environment and we give it to our customers. We are able to give the benefit of our solution to our customers.

Achim Schuetz, SAP Director

[3:01] Power solution saves floor space, saves work, and every time we do not need to take care of the machine we can take care of the customer.