IBM has merged its virtualisation technologies with its service-oriented architecture (SOA) offerings. The merger is intended to provide more balanced, flexible use of resources throughout a company.
According to the company, the IBM System p servers combined with IBM middleware for SOA will maximise existing hardware and streamline business processes and improve overall system performance.
"The new System p Configurations for SOA Entry Points combines the best of IBM server and virtualisation technology with IBM software to make it easier to deploy new systems in an SOA," said David Chancellor-Maddison, business unit executive for the systems and technology group at IBM South & Central Africa.
IBM says the offering allows partitioned servers to run multiple operating systems and allow processes to be switched from one partition to another depending on the workload it requires. The company says that the cluster-multiprocessing system will also provide fail-over protection.
"This powerful combination will help customers adapt to business changes with a flexible infrastructure, reduce IT costs, increase quality of service and simplify the utilisation of system resources," says Chancellor-Maddison.
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