Roadshows across Saudi Arabia highlight salient features of IBM's Power Servers

The roadshows, held recently in Khobar, Riyadh and Jeddah, shed light on the importance of selecting the right systems such as IBM Power Architecture in order to enable businesses to run with agility and speed.

IBM Power's dynamic infrastructure can unite business and IT, offering seamless access to IT services and resources and cohesively integrating and managing the exploding volume of information regardless of source.

The IBM Power Servers, proven to deliver on innovative technology, simplifies operations, improves utilization of resources, reduces overall costs of server capacity, addresses energy costs, and cuts IT management costs and complexity, besides boosting connectively in an effective manner.

The road shows evoked good response from businesses, with the Eastern Region registered very high participation. The modules during the road show focused on the solutions and tools offered by the Power Servers which help IT platforms to rapidly move to a more dynamic infrastructure that provides a cost effective, creative, high performance, secure and resilient service delivery model.

Maher Greiss advisory sales specialist Power systems at SBM, said:

"In today's economic climate, the ability to adapt to changing business conditions requires a dynamic infrastructure. IBM Power systems can help businesses get the most from its IT assets through a cost-effective infrastructure that is available 24x7. The system is all about making businesses and IT environment ready to be part of a planet that is becoming smarter. Power can help with unique technologies and services for virtualization, energy efficiency, management and business resiliency."

The solutions not only helps in managing information and optimizing business performance but also offers the security, compliance, resilience and business risk management solutions with proven expertise and full access to a global network of industry-leading skills, technology and services. The solutions extends the life of existing data center assets with improved utilization of servers and storage -- floor space and facility costs are typically reduced by 25-50% by executing new server consolidation projects.

More businesses are moving all or subsets of their infrastructures to the IBM Power Architecture every day to get the Power advantage known as 'performance plus'. The processor-based servers offer a combination of leadership performance, energy efficiency, flexible virtualization features and RAS features designed to maximize application availability.

The IBM Power System is the first of a new generation of servers unifying the former System I and System p product lines. With the new Power Systems, all IBM's Power platform I, Linux, and UNIX user communities can come together under a unified platform while each maintains its own highly valued business propositions, thus offering optimal utilization with minimum costs.