Power Systems is at the forefront of delivering solutions to gain faster insights from analyzing both structured information and unstructured big data including video, images and content from sensors, social and mobile devices. To draw insights and make better decisions, businesses need the secure, flexible and open platform of Power Systems plus solutions and software that supports continuous data load, runs multiple concurrent queries, delivers analytics in real-time and contains a massive IO bandwidth

Advantages

IT staffs today have more flexibility in deploying new and expanded business workloads due to proven technologies like virtualization. However, virtualization alone, without effective systems management tools and processes can increase the workload on an already-overburdened IT staff, inhibiting their ability to deliver innovative services and drive business growth. To address todays challenges and tomorrows opportunities, businesses need to ensure high availability, security, and quality of existing services, while meeting customer expectations for new services that are delivered in the shortest possible time.

IBM offers comprehensive solutions that improve service delivery by providing a consolidated view of physical and virtual resources running any workload combinations on AIX, Linux, and IBM i operating environments. Enterprise service management solutions for AIX workloads helps more closely link managing IT operations with meeting business requirements.

IBM offers IBM Systems Director Editions for Power Servers web-based, point and click management solutions designed to reduce time required to monitor and repair enterprise systems for higher availability, deploy and optimize systems for increased efficiency, and to plan and document infrastructure to better understand current capabilities and future capacity needs.

IBM System Director Editions provide choices to select the package of automated management solutions that best fits business needs.

IBM Systems Director Express Edition provides a foundation for systems management and integrated tools needed for monitoring, system configuration, and the update capabilities IT administrators need to remotely manage Power servers.

IBM Systems Director Standard Edition includes the Express Edition functions and adds advanced deployment, monitoring, energy management, and network control features under the same console.

IBM Systems Director Enterprise Edition includes all functions of the Standard Edition and enables superior performance and availability management and automated resource deployment and availability management required for a flexible and agile infrastructure.

AIX Enterprise Edition complements Systems Director by linking platform management of AIX workloads with enterprise service management by including all features of Systems Director Enterprise Edition, the Workload Partitions (WPAR) Manager, and shared storage pools through PowerVM.

IBM Power HA is designed to protect business applications from outages of virtually any kind, helping to ensure round-the-clock operations availability for business critical applications.

Power SC ensures security and compliance with common industry security standards.