Less really is more......

As your business grows, the need to expand your IT infrastructure becomes essential.  A variety of new servers with a multitude of operating environments is often the common solution adopted to cope with the increasing demands of the business.  The resulting server sprawl is costly in terms of capital expenditure, ongoing maintenance, energy costs and staff required to operate, manage, and upgrade new servers.

Over recent years the trend towards server consolidation and virtualisation has been prevalent in the x86 market, however this functionality has been available on Power i for many years. Apex offers server consolidation solutions using virtualisation technologies for IBM Power i, to help companies to amalgamate their disparate server infrastructures into a cost effective, simplified solution that delivers greater IT resource utilisation and flexibility.

With "Green Computing" rising rapidly on the IT agenda, it is also worth noting the significant reductions in energy costs and consumption that can be achieved through consolidation and virtualisation.

In it's lastest incarnation, PowerVM™ is the family of technologies, capabilities and offerings that deliver industry-leading virtualisation on IBM POWER™ processor-based systems - including Power i.

IBM Power i coupled with PowerVM technology is designed to help you consolidate and simplify your IT environment. Key benefits include:

• Improved server utilisation and sharing I/O resources to reduce total cost of ownership and maximise your existing IT investment.
• Increased business agility and responsiveness by dynamically re-allocating resources to applications as needed.
• Simplified IT infrastructure management by making workloads independent of hardware resources. This allows you to make business-driven policies to deliver resources based on time, cost and service-level requirements.