Sometimes choosing the right platform to run your business can be confusing. Choosing IBM technology is the easy part. Let MCS tell you ten great reasons why the Power Systems™ server family is the right choice to enhance your infrastructure. The reason why they are called “Power” Systems™ is the result of the combination between IBM’s System ‘i’ (AS/400) and the System ‘p’ (RS/6000) into a common hardware platform. That’s one reason alone, but there are really ten specific ones that can help you realize the potential of an efficient Power Systems™ server environment.
- Virtualization provides the ability to pool and share system resources reduces capital expense and improve Total Cost of Ownership. Power Systems™ re-balance workload demands automatically: re-positioning system resources wherever and whenever needed, without having to constantly monitor system operations.
- Live Partition mobility – No more downtime for maintenance, re-balance your workloads across systems, and grow capacity without disrupting users. Shift running applications to other systems without interruption.
- Reliability – Power Systems™ servers are the industry’s most reliable Unix/Linux platform.
- Energy Efficient – This architecture helps drive down energy consumption. This is important in any business climate.
- Outstanding Performance – In addition to energy efficiency and virtualization technology, the IBM Power Systems™ lead 70 + key benchmarks.
- Reduce Software Licensing costs – Power Servers do more work with fewer cores. Fewer Power cores equal reduced software license costs for many applications.
- Trusted Security with auditing and compliance tools – The Power Systems™ Servers are known as one of the most reliable and secure business systems in the industry. It’s virus resistant safeguarding against hackers and keeps business secure.
- Simultaneously combines multiple instances of AIX, IBM i, Red Hat and SuSE Linux on a single system.
- Non-disruptive upgrades can be done by moving running applications to other systems without disrupting users. This is a painless way to grow your business.
- Competitive financing rates. IBM is helping businesses with enhanced financing rates and flexible options that will help make this technology affordable.
IBM has invested significant resources to be competitive in the market place while at the same time making their technology more affordable for all businesses. The Power Systems™ are energy efficient, scalable and reliable. It’s all about saving you money over the long term investment. The business climate is constantly changing and businesses need to adapt and do more to survive and grow. IBM Power Systems™ allow you to do that. Ten reasons your business can’t afford to do without. Let MCS help you get to that solution.
