IBM Service Management – Optimized Infrastructure

IBM Systems and Storage solutions provide the flexibility, performance and reliability that delivers an optimized IT infrastructure for efficient and effective process, operations and service management

IBM Service Management leverages IBM’s industry leading server and storage products to help:

• Lower complexity, improve operating efficiency with system consolidation and virtualization
• Increase availability and performance with better management of IT and applications with integrated automation and data management tasks
• React with agility and flexibility with dynamic infrastructures that can help organizations meet SLAs.

IBM Servers deliver continuing innovation to help maximize business value with an On Demand Operating Environment that intelligently adjusts and apportions resources to workloads – ensuring the attainment of service level agreements end-to-end across the enterprise. With server consolidationm, organizations can optimize the utilization of their IT infrastructure and realize resource efficiency. Virtualization capabilities delivers.

• Rapid server deployment and provisioning
• Multiple diverse workloads in a protected and isolated environment
• Manage multiple virtual servers from a single point of control
• Leverage mainframe systems advanced capabilities
• Efficient workload management

IBM Servers at a glance:

• System z® provides superior levels of resiliency through the integrated availability, dynamic provisioning and automated recovery capabilities throughout its architecture.
• System i® provides bullet proof reliability and includes many built in features in the hardware and operating system to provide data and application management.
• System p® offerings deliver industry leading performance, unique simultaneous multithreading, advanced virtualization, and the POWER6 architecture
• System x® and BladeCenter® help simplify management and reduce costs with an integrated tool set to provide a consistent, single point-of management of different server platforms and non-IBM systems. IBM Power Executives provides planning, management and protection of power consumption.

IBM Storage helps organizations simplify infrastructure complexity, lower total cost of ownership (TCO), protect data and efficiently manage information throughout its lifecycle. Specific capabilities include:

• IBM disk storage and tape storage offerings
• IBM Storage Area Network (SAN)
• IBM Network Attached Storage (NAS)
• IBM implementations services for Tivoli® Storage Manager
• IBM TotalStorage Virtualization services
• Disaster recovery services solution for zSeries® and ESS
• IBM Storage Software (IBM Grid Access Manager, IBM TotalStorage Productivity solutions, IBM System Storage Virtualization)