IBM® System x® and BladeCenter® servers help to deliver a dynamic infrastructure that provides leadership quality and service that you can trust, as well as:
–Reduces operating costs with higher performance, energy efficiency, simplified management, virtualization and increased utilization
–Manages present and future risk in challenging economic conditions with best-in-class RAS and future-proof IT
–Improves service with an end-to-end approach to systems management.
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Virtualization is a term used for several methods of abstracting physical computer resources into multiple virtual ones. The idea gained massive popularity around 2005 when companies began to virtualize operating systems, but the overall concept of virtualization is hardly a new one.
For a long time now companies have been using stand-alone PCs to give employees access to office productivity and collaboration applications. However, the cost and complexity involved in managing large desktop environments have been pushing many companies to look for alternatives to traditional client-server computing models.




