November 19, 2007—IBM has introduced a powerful array of systems software, hardware, and improved availability best practices to help companies substantially reduce energy consumption and more effectively manage their computing environments, the company has announced.
The new technologies and services allow clients to use fewer servers, make better use of existing technology, and actively monitor power usage, while eliminating significant blocks of planned downtime and freeing up IT staffs on weekends and off-hours.
IBM’s new offerings include:
- A wide-ranging variety of software solutions designed to improve customers’ ability to easily deploy, virtualize, manage and upgrade their systems;
- New POWER6 processor-based IBM BladeCenter JS22 Express systems, bringing the power of the world’s fastest chip to a blade form factor for the first time; and
- A new Availability Factory, allowing qualified customers to get a no-charge assessment of how to implement their own roadmaps to improve application availability and energy efficiency.
At the heart of IBM’s announcement is new virtualization software that enables customers to move running applications or the entire operating system from one physical machine to another with no impact on application availability. These features, including Live Partition Mobility and Live Application Mobility, allow applications to be consolidated onto fewer machines while active, helping to reduce energy consumption, says IBM.
For more information, visit the IBM Web site.
