Migrate to IBM Power Systems
Over the last four and a half years alone, more than 3,300 businesses have migrated their competitive UNIX systems to Power.
An historic shift is underway of clients migrating from Sun and HP UNIX systems to IBM Power Systems. With the introduction of POWER7, that pace has accelerated with over 500 clients migrating in just the 1st half of 2010. In addition, more clients are realizing the benefits of consolidating workloads that have been running on x86 servers onto Power systems.
Learn how and why Sun, HP and x86 users are moving to Power (02:43min)
Cost reduction, improved service and managing risk are three good reasons why more than 2,100 users have eliminated from their server farms to migrate to Power Systems.
Benefits achieved by clients migrating to Power Systems
– Reduce the cost and complexity of their IT infrastructure by spending less time on systems administration, maintenance and troubling shooting.
– Take advantage of better application performance with POWER7 processors that provide superior raw performance and automatically shift system resources to changes in demand.
– Position their businesses for the future with fast deployment of new applications and services into production – in hours or days instead of weeks.
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– An extensive family of servers that deliver significantly more performance and capacity than competitive UNIX or x86-based systems.
– Workload optimizing features that automatically flow system resources to the workloads that need them – real-time.
– Virtualization without limits enabling greater levels of utilization and more flexibility.
– Dynamic energy optimization combined with highly energy efficient systems.
– Resiliency without downtime with systems that enable higher availability.
– Management with automation eliminating many of the daily challenges of system administration.
How does your system stack up against POWER processor-based servers?
Power performance
IBM Power Systems lead HP and Sun 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.
Power efficiency
The combination of performance, consolidation, and virtualization enables you 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.
Power availability
The IBM Power servers implement reliability, availability and serviceability features inspired by more than 40 years of mainframe experience in running mission-critical applications.
Our POWER6 and POWER7 processor-based servers support:
* First Failure Data Capture
* Processor Instruction Retry
* Alternate Processor Recovery
* Bit Steering
* I/O EEH
* FW isolated partitions
* Live Partition Mobility and Application Mobility
No competitive UNIX or Linux server has a majority of these features.
Power virtualization
POWER processor-based servers are unique among UNIX® and Linux® servers in that they support the same virtualization product, PowerVM™, and almost all of the same virtualization features in servers ranging from blades to highend servers. The features of PowerVM are even more impressive.
Features like:
* Minimum partition size as small as 1/10 of a processor with granularity of 1/100 of a processor
* Automatic CPU adjustments based on load (POWER Hypervisor™)
* Dynamic reconfiguration without rebooting
* Dedicated and virtual devices in guest operating systems
* Virtualize network and storage for guest operating systems
* Active Memory Sharing
* Live Partition Mobility between systems provide exceptional capability for the user consolidating homogeneous and heterogeneous workloads
