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By matching IBM System x hosts to the appropriate IBM System Storage offering, organizations can achieve the fast, flexible, cost-effective, and easy-to-manage x86 architectures they need—today and tomorrow. Rethink your approach to x86 and reap many benefits.

Edison Group interviewed a number of business owners running office or franchise workloads and consultants/resellers who cater to them, in order to assess the server related challenges faced by their organizations, and the server features they most frequently required."

The IBM System ex5 systems with MAX5 memory expansion are ideal virtualization platforms for your enterprise applications. Get more for your server dollar, rest easy about outages, and boost your utilization - the IBM solution lets you go high density with confidence.

This paper provides a brief overview of cloud computing,explains how midsize companies can benefit, and describes thesteps they can take to take advantage of what it has to offer.

Virtualization has been an increasingly important focus among x86 server users since the early 2000s. According to market researchers, numbers of virtual machines (VMs) now outnumber physical servers, and are increasing by 30 to 50 percent per year. Even relatively large, business-critical applications are now being deployed in virtual form.

In this white paper Clabby Analytics discusses price and value comparisons between IBM's BladeCenter Foundation vs. Cisco's Unified Computing System.

The ServeRAID M5025 SAS/SATA Controller is a cost-effective, enterprise-grade RAID solution for external hard drives (HDDs) that integrates emerging SAS technology into an organization's storage infrastructure.

IBM x3690 X5, x3850 X5 and x3950 X5 servers can help enterprises make the most out of SAP applications by delivering outstanding performance. These System x servers are equipped with processors from the Intel Xeon processor 7500 series, which combine exceptional raw compute power with increased memory bandwidth and support for significantly greater memory capacity to deliver superior performance to previous-generation processors. With eight cores in each processor, the four-socket x3950 X5 can be scaled to 32 cores and 64 threads.Organizations can achieve extreme scaling within each node for running demanding workloads on a compact system.

This paper examines the business case a large services organization recently put together to determine whether consolidating their current server infrastructure onto the latest IBM® BladeCenter® HX5 servers powered by Intel® Xeon® X7550 processors could help them reduce costs and improve the efficiency of their IT services.

The iDataPlex solution from IBM is the latest workhorse extending the proven IBM modular and cluster systems product portfolio for the high performance computing community. This IBM green system can help lower power consumtion by upto 40% and can greatly reduce the air conditioning need in data centers.

This paper describes the value IBM BladeCenter Foundation for Cloud can bring to the enterprise. As a “data center in a box,” it combines software, server, storage, networking, and startup services, all pre-tested to operate together as an integrated whole, and it is supported by one of the world’s premier systems vendors.

This thought leadership white paper describes drivers, barriers and considerations for public and private cloud adoption. The many inherent benefits of a cloud environment make itattractive to organizations looking to speed service deliveryand increase IT efficiencies while supporting informationmanagement, service management and service-oriented archi-tecture (SOA) initiatives. While cloud computing offers dis-tinct advantages, organizations that are considering adoptionmust carefully strategize about delivery models, workloads andinfrastructure readiness.

The fifth-generation X-Architecture® of the IBM® System x® eX5 x86 server series fully leverages the functions built into the latest Intel® Xeon® processors to deliver unprecedented memory resources while providing mission critical RAS. Additionally, the MAX5 memory expansion system, an option available only to eX5 systems, uniquely decouples memory from the processor."

IBM has announced a new generation of x86 servers—System x® and BladeCenter® systems and other supporting options—offering an unbeatable combination of performance, value, storage, and energy efficiency designed to help you improve service, reduce costs and manage risk.

Overview - Considerations for protecting the business and meeting processing needs. Today, organizations face increased risk of data loss, rising cost of data backup and the need to comply with regulatory requirements. Partnering with IBM’s business continuity professionals can help you provide security-rich, managed protection for your client’s critical data, help them more easily manage regulatory compliance and reduce their total cost of ownership. Engage with your clients early in the high-availability sales cycle and improve your positioning with increased scope of services

In a nutshell, Systems Director 6.3 offers systems managers and administrators with a single point of control for managing physical and virtualized systems environments and associated peripherals such as storage.

Cloud computing is an emerging computing model by which users can gain access to their applications from anywhere, through any connected device. A user-centric interface makes the cloud infrastructure supporting the applications transparent to users. The applications reside in massively scalable data centers where computational resources can be dynamically provisioned and shared to achieve significant economies of scale. Thanks to a strong service management platform, the management costs of adding more IT resources to the cloud can be significantly lower than those associated with alternate infrastructures.

IBM® understands the limitations of traditional approaches to the x86 architecture, and continues to invest heavily in making sure that its own offerings break the mould and deliver genuine enterprise-class computing. IBM System x® solutions are founded on decades of innovation and investment, and draw on IBM’s rich heritage of research and development across multiple enterprise platforms.

Cloud computing is a style of computing whose foundation is the delivery of services, software, and processing capacity using private or public networks. The focus of cloud computing is the user experience, and the essence is to decouple the delivery of computing services from the underlying technology.

The IBM Systems Software management portfolio is the integrating force, spanning the data center to bring visibility, automation and control to the infrastructure. The cornerstone of the portfolio is IBM Systems Director, which provides a unified, “single pane of glass” platform for the management of the entire heterogeneous infrastructure – multiple server platforms from x86 to IBM POWER® and mainframe, as well as storage and networking.