IBM and SBM host 'Move Up to i' roadshows in three major cities

These new servers provide significantly more performance to run additional applications to help reduce costs in other areas of the business, improve services, and manage risks.

Companies rely on an efficient IT infrastructure to support business-critical applications. As they need to know that their systems and business processes are deployed to meet the highest service levels defined by their business units plus can be adapted to handle every new business opportunity. IBM i (formerly knows as i5/OS) running on an IBM Power Systems server offers a highly scalable and virus resistant architecture with a proven reputation for exceptional business resiliency. Running applications based on i has helped companies over many years to focus on innovation and delivering new value to their business, not just on managing their data centre operations.

Having a more dynamic infrastructure is all about selecting the right systems and software to enable businesses to move with agility and speed. Getting there with IBM i mean implementing proven solutions on a platform you can trust. By choosing the latest Power platform, IBM i applications get world class performance plus dynamic infrastructure flexibility, with the opportunity to lower monthly operations costs.

IBM i integrate a trusted combination of relational database, Web services, networking and storage management capabilities. It provides a broad and highly stable database and middleware foundation for efficiently deploying business processing applications, with support for over 5,000 solutions from over 2,500 ISVs. i solutions are offered through an extensive, highly skilled worldwide network of IBM Business Partners that is backed by IBM's trusted services and support infrastructure.

IBM i has more customers than any other IBM system platform with hundreds of thousands of customers across hundreds of thousands of systems. Present in 115+ countries across 20+ industries the system i caters to the small, midsized and enterprise sectors running on the fastest processors in the industry; POWER6 5.0 GHz on servers from 1 to 64 cores.

IBM develops, fully tests and pre-loads the core middleware components of i together up front, whereas on other platforms, operation system, database and middleware integration is done in the data center. The pre-integration and testing of i is a key factor in enabling companies to deploy applications faster and maintain them with fewer staff. Virtualization and workload management are also built into i to enable you to run multiple applications and components together on the same system, driving up system utilization and delivering a better return on IT investments.

The roadshows were held in Jeddah, Al-Khobar and Riyadh on October 5, 6, and 7 respectively. IBM speakers highlighted on topics like Power Systems and IBM i roadmap, POWER High Availability Business Continuity & Resiliency, Virtualization Strategies, DB2 Web Query and Dynamic Infrastructure - IBM's new approach to build your infrastructure ready for a Smarter Planet.