IBM System x Hyper-V Private Cloud Solution

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IBM System x Hyper-V Private Cloud SolutionThe comprehensive, usable cloud for midmarket clients from System x, Microsoft and Brocade

Our understanding of your goals

Businesses of all sizes see Private Clouds as a path to obtaining the benefits of cloud technology with a significant turn-key implementation.

Clouds are a perfect solution for the deployment, management, and measurement of services both internally and to customers.

Private clouds offer a robust, highly available and secure implementation that is designed to be modular, to grow, and easily add resources to meet demand.

Our approach to meeting your goals

The use of powerful yet mainstream IBM® System x® Rack servers is one of the best returns on investment.

The IBM System x Private Cloud offering (PCO is the result of a collaboration with industry leaders Microsoft® and Brocade (among others) to simplify and secure a Private Cloud solution that is scalable, flexible and extensible.

The latest Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track platform provides dynamic resource allocation and the use of a high bandwidth 10 Gb network fabric provides a high performance backbone to energize virtual machine migration.



IBM System x Hyper-V Private Cloud Solution (continued)The comprehensive, usable cloud for midmarket clients from System x, Microsoft and Brocade

OverviewFeatures:

The IBM System x Private Cloud offering is a reference architecture that brings a ready-to-use, high-performance, ultra reliable datacenter to businesses looking to benefit from the promise that cloud computing offers. The solution is:

• Modular for secure scalability—Easily add resources to meet demand

• Designed for elasticity and flexibility—Service demand management is fully automated and can be securely reallocated

Benefits:

Why IBM?

The IBM System x Private Cloud offering is designed with mainstream high-performance servers, high-bandwidth network switches and a richly featured storage system. All these major subsystems are built around a modular architecture that can be scaled to meet grow with need while maximizing common management and administrative components. The system is designed to optimize value with a private cloud offering that is:

• Robust and ready—With leading-edge technology from IBM, Microsoft and Brocade

• Designed to drive economies of scale—Pooled resources yield higher utilization and lower overall costs

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• Robust and ready private cloud

– Leading edge technology from IBM, Microsoft® and Brocade

• Modular for secure scalability

– Seamlessly add resources to meet demand

• Designed for elasticity and flexibility

– Service demand management is fully automated and can be securely reallocated



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