As our planet becomes more instrumented, interconnected and intelligent, it ibecomes easier for midsized businesses to provide the products and services that used to be the select province of larger enterprises. However, substantial challenges exist, such as how to achieve the business performance and scale required, and how to store and manage large amounts of data.
IBM is committed to design and deliver smarter systems to tackle those challenges and to work with our Business Partners to ensure customers can leverage those systems to achieve success.
Recently, IBM announced offerings that can help midsized companies tackle these challenges.
IBM System x3620 M3 Express
Equipped with the latest Intel® Xeon® technology, this system gives growing businesses an affordable alternative to traditional enterprise server offerings.
- Reduces costs by providing a storage-rich system, including integrated RAID adapters and support for up to eight high-capacity, low-cost 3.5" hard disk drives.
- Further lowers the total cost of ownership with its outstanding energy efficiency.
IBM System Storage DS3500 Express / EXP3500 Express
Using next-generation back-end and host technology, this solution provides organizations with a seamless path to consolidated and efficient storage—improving performance, flexibility, scalability, data security and power consumption—while not sacrificing simplicity, affordability, or availability.
- Supports a multi-protocol interface, providing consolidation flexibility that increases efficiencies and lowers costs.
- Leverages management expertise built into intuitive and powerful software.
- Provides enhanced data protection and integrity.
- Supports an extensive suite of Microsoft and VMware solutions.
- Embeds green efficiencies that also reduce energy expenditures.
As your IT infrastructure grows, monitoring applications and infrastructure for availability and performance becomes more critical to keep your business running smoothly. Tivoli® Live–C monitoring services tackles this exact challenge.
Tivoli® Live – monitoring services
Delivers on the promise of superior service with agility and speed, at an affordable price.
- Provides a security-rich, world-class monitoring solution using industry-leading Tivoli® software
- Replaces upfront capital and licensing expenses with affordable, monthly subscription services
- Relieves IT burden with simple, scalable, self-service capabilities and built-in IBM best practices
The primary components of this service include Internet-based connectivity to client infrastructure, server and middleware monitoring, performance and capacity reporting, selected alert action self-enablement and dynamic reporting. Built-in flexibility allows you to choose the best option to meet your business needs.
