Oracle recently announced that it will no longer develop future versions of its software products for Intel Itanium, joining Red Hat, Microsoft, Ubuntu and others in abandoning development and essentially marginalising the Itanium platform.
This leaves you with a dilemma that could impact your organisation in the future.
Because of this a historic shift is underway of clients migrating from Oracle and HP UNIX® systems to IBM Power Systems™.1
Over the last five years, IBM Migration Factory has been involved in more than 3,500 migrations2 from non-IBM UNIX systems to Power.
With the introduction of POWER7®, that pace has accelerated with over 1,100 migrations in just 2010 alone. In addition, more clients are realising the benefits of consolidating workloads that have been running on x86 servers onto Power Systems.
Why choose IBM Power?
IBM Power will solve your integration concerns
Whether you’re looking for traditional solutions such as ERP and transaction processing or solutions for a smarter planet requiring massive scaling and analytics, IBM and IBM Business Partner solutions help you keep an eye on tomorrow while making sure current operations don't miss a beat. Designed from conception for optimal performance, scalability and quick time-to-value, your IT shop can benefit from pre-integration of the operating system and IBM and ISV software and often, pre-installation on Power Systems.
IBM Power provides better resilience
The IBM Power servers implement reliability, availability and serviceability features inspired by more than 40 years of mainframe experience in running mission-critical applications. POWER7® processor-based servers support:
- Reliability in hardware is all about how often a hardware fault requires a system to be serviced – the less frequent the failures, the greater the reliability
- Availability is how infrequently such a failure impacts the operation of the system or application. A highly available system design insures that most hardware failures will not result in an application outage.
- Serviceability concerns itself with identifying what fails and ensuring efficient repair.
No non-IBM UNIX® or Linux® server has a majority of these features.3
IBM Power could reduce your energy bills
One of the more pressing issues facing datacenter managers today is power usage. The power requirement for datacenters has grown so much that some customers may have to build new facilities because they can't bring enough power into current sites to run their future operations. IBM is approaching this problem with our Big Green initiative.
Power Systems are very energy efficient. The POWER7® processor-based servers, the IBM Power 750 Express, Power 770, and Power 780 can deliver three times the energy efficiency of competitive servers. The combination of performance, consolidation, and virtualization enables yfou to save up to 90% of the energy required by Sun, HP and Dell servers. POWER processor-based servers require less power for same class servers and provide even greater savings in highly consolidated environments. The Power 750 and Power 755 are ENERGY STAR®-qualified servers designed with more features to help clients become more energy efficient.
IBM Power will outperform any other similar solutions4
Power Systems™ performance allows clients to get the work done with fewer and/or smaller systems. This advantage has helped our clients to reduce the total cost of ownership with savings in software costs for products licensed by the core, energy costs, floor space, and other operational costs. IBM Power servers lead similar vendor offerings in performance in highend systems, in midrange systems, in entry systems, and in blade systems.
That's right – Power servers are the leader in all the categories.
Need more?
Call Avnet today. We will listen to your concerns and arrange for the right IBM Business Partner to contact you directly.
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Terms & Conditions - This promotion is available to customers who qualify as new customers as determined at Avnet's sole discretion. Start and End Dates - This promotion is valid until December 31st, 2011. Who is Eligible? - New end-user customers. Approval - Avnet reserves the right to withdraw this offer at any time.
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