IBM Technology Brief Sample

This report is about the benefits that IBM virtualization solutions can deliver to large as well as midsize organizations. Specifically, it looks at the potential bottom-line impact of these. Two examples presented in this report demonstrate a wide range of potential savings in server and storage costs, and in middleware and personnel costs associated with these.

In a large financial services company, effective deployment of IBM virtualization solutions is shown to reduce five-year costs of ownership for x86, UNIX server and disk storage infrastructures by 53 percent; i.e., costs are more than halved. In a midsize manufacturing company, costs of ownership are reduced by 44 percent.