1. Management Costs Lowered

The movement to a Power7 system has never been an easier decision with maintenance costs significantly reduced. The new Power7 systems come with a 3 year warranty resulting in no software or hardware maintenance costs over the 3 year period, saving you money immediately. The system can either be leased or bought and over the 3 year period the savings will be noticeable from maintenance to energy savings.

2. Cost Effective and Power Performance 

Additional performance, capacity and energy efficiency are all key reasons why businesses are moving to Power7 systems. Power7 systems provide more CPW for lower costs resulting in better price for performance than IBM's competitors are offering.

3. Virtual i zation 

PowerVM virtualization enables businesses to consolidate multiple workloads onto fewer systems, ultimately allowed an increase in server utilisation and a reduction in costs. PowerVM offers Micro-Partitioning to manage the use of LPAR's per core and delivers 4x the performance & virtualization capability than previous systems. Deploying applications faster, reduction in costs, an improved service and improved IT infrastructure efficiency are all benefits of virtualization.

4. Outstanding Energy Efficiency

Each Power server has EnergyScale technology built into the Power7 processor which helps lower energy costs without sacrificing performance or business flexibility. Energy management solutions can be monitored and energy use can be controlled to provide optimum energy efficiency in customers' data centre's. In conjunction with IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager, trends can be analysed across servers to help reduce energy costs whilst full performance is still in operation.

5. One Platform – Multiple Programs, Multiple Operating Systems

Power 7 enables Linux to run alongside other applications to provide a centrally managed systems through the consolidation of AIX and I databases. 'Out of the box' Linux solutions are also made available from all major Linux suppliers meaning Power Systems clients can immediately benefit from the latest applications.
 

6. Consolation of Database and Application Workloads

The need to have a server dedicated to a single application or operating environment is no longer required with Power7. The consolidation of workloads will also significantly reduce costs throughout customers' infrastructure whilst being able to meet changing processing demands. This can enable one single larger server to do the same comparable work of up to 1000 smaller servers.
 

7. Live Partition Mobility & Live Application Mobility

The Live Partition Mobility and Live Application Mobility sustain the system availability during maintenance and re-hosting. When migrating applications, this facility ensures a smooth transfer from system to system without disrupting services and loads.