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Dear Mr. Client:

I would like to thank you for sharing your time to discuss our IBM® Power Systems™ offerings. Based on our discussions, I have attached a proposal for the Power 520 i Edition offering that can reduce your monthly operations costs by **PERCENT** and deliver **NUMBER** times more performance than your current system, providing you the power to run new applications.

This proposal reflects our objective to assist **CUSTOMER** achieve its goals by leveraging our proven IBM i operating system and advanced POWER6™ technology. We constructed this solution’s phased implementation to address **CUSTOMER**’s immediate needs and to help minimize impact to your normal operations.

The IBM Power 520 i Edition is the latest version of our most popular server for mid-sized clients running IBM i applications. This new system delivers what you value in your current **MODEL** solution: legendary reliability, trusted security, integration, and simplified operations – plus more. The proposed 520 supports our latest hardware and software technology, including the industry’s fastest processor, the IBM POWER6 processor.

With the advancements in technology, we are able to provide the Power 520 i Edition at a price that can reduce your monthly operations costs. Based on our discussion, my understanding is that you are currently paying **DOLLAR** per month in hardware and software maintenance fees. With Power 520 i Edition, you can save ** DOLLAR** per month, enough to cover the lease price on the new system.

With the performance available on the Power 520 i Edition, you can support new and updated applications to reduce costs, improve service and mange risk in other parts of your business. For example, you can

Extend existing applications to the web to provide better service to customers, partners and suppliers

Analyze your data to make data driven decision, reducing costs in other areas of the business

Run the latest **ISV** applications to meet regulatory requirements and improve employee productivity

Integrate business applications with voice applications, improving productivity and customer satisfaction

Reduce risk with a high availability solution

I would like to thank you for the loyalty and trust your company has shown by investing in IBM system products and solutions over the years. Thank you for considering the attached proposal to meet your requirements. I look forward to discussing the elements of this proposal with you in detail. Please feel free to contact me for any additional information.

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Table of Contents

Executive Summary......................................................................................................................1

Our Understanding of Your Goals.............................................................................................1Current Solution..................................................................................................................1

Our Approach to Meeting Your Goals.......................................................................................1Solution Summary.....................................................................................................................1

Power 520 Express.............................................................................................................2IBM i....................................................................................................................................2Additional Software.............................................................................................................2Services..............................................................................................................................2

Why IBM....................................................................................................................................3

About **COMPANY** (for :Business Partner: Use)....................................................................4

IBM Power 520 Express................................................................................................................5

Specifications............................................................................................................................5IBM Power 520 Features and Benefits.....................................................................................6

IBM i................................................................................................................................................8

Highlights of IBM i 6.1...............................................................................................................8IBM i Features and Benefits......................................................................................................9

Additional Software.....................................................................................................................11

Virtualization with PowerVM....................................................................................................11Running Linux on Power i with Power VM with Lx86..............................................................11High Availability with PowerHA or IBM iCluster......................................................................12

The business benefits of IBM iCluster for i.......................................................................12Innovative solutions to simplify your Windows infrastructure..................................................13

Centralized, graphical server management......................................................................13Synchronized security.......................................................................................................13Simplified storage management.......................................................................................14Consolidated backup........................................................................................................14Flexible server deployment...............................................................................................14

Business Intelligence with DB2 Web Query............................................................................14Enhance & Extend your Applications with Rational Tools......................................................15Web Enablement with PHP.....................................................................................................16Unified Communications and Collaboration............................................................................16

Services........................................................................................................................................18

Configuration and Pricing Summary.........................................................................................19

Implementation Plan...................................................................................................................20

Terms and Conditions...................................................................................................................21

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Executive Summary

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Our Understanding of Your Goals

Based on our conversations, you told us the key goals for **CUSTOMER** include:

**GOAL related to reduce cost**

**GOAL related to improve service**

**GOAL related to manage risk**

Current Solution

In addition, you are currently supporting your **TYPE OF APPLICATIONS** applications with an IBM **MODEL**. This system is currently costing you **DOLLAR** per month in hardware and software maintenance fees. The **MODEL** has the following components:

**Number of cores, speed of core, CPW of system**

**NUMBER** GB of Memory

**NUMBER** GB of Disk with **NUMBER** of drives

Running i5/OS® **VERSION AND RELEASE**

Our Approach to Meeting Your Goals

To meet your goals, we propose to replace your IBM® **MODEL** with a Power 520 i Edition running IBM i 6.1. This solution has the following benefits for **CUSTOMER**:

Supports your existing business applications running on IBM i

Leverages the IT skills you already have supporting IBM i

Provides **NUMBER** times more performance than your current system

Provides the latest hardware and software technology

Solution Summary

**COMPANY** proposes the following Power 520 i Edition Server for **CUSTOMER**:


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IBM Power 520 i Edition rack-mount and deskside options

Power 520 Express

**NUMBER** GHz IBM POWER6™ processor with **NUMBER** cores

**NUMBER** GB of memory

**NUMBER** GB disk drives

DVD, Ethernet, and tape drive

One year warranty

IBM i

IBM i 6.1

One year software support and maintenance

Additional Software

**List additional software proposed – for example**

DB2® Web Query

Rational® tools

PHP

Unified Communication and Collaboration

PowerHA™

PowerVM™

Services

**List any installation or management services that are proposed**


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Why IBM

IBM and IBM Business Partners can work with you every step of the way from acquisition, to design, to turnkey installation and migration, and even to running the systems.

IBM has committed resources and integrated testing to develop relevant IT infrastructure and industry-specific solutions with outstanding performance and technological innovations.

The Power 520 i Edition is complemented by a network of IBM Business Partners who provide thousands of applications that address the needs of many small and mid-sized companies.

Solutions for the Power 520 i Edition system span a wide range of industries including transportation, construction, wholesale and retail, distribution, light manufacturing, services, and professional groups.

IBM provides broad support for open standards, enabling better integration and interoperability among virtualized systems, and delivering superior value.

In addition to running IBM i, the Power 520 i Edition can also run AIX® and Linux®

operating systems, providing supporting over 15,000 applications

Solid technology roadmaps for growth give the IBM Power 520 i Edition offerings a competitive advantage and give you a sense of security with your IT investment. The Power family is designed to allow your company to focus on the business at hand by giving you ease of integration and management. With a range of systems, including the Power 520 i Edition, you now have offerings from IBM that are specifically tuned for small and mid-sized companies, and give you excellent price/performance, with reliability, availability, and security features that the competition will find difficult to match.


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About **COMPANY** (for :Business Partner: Use)

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IBM Power 520 Express

For a complete integrated business system, the Power 520 Express allows the small or mid-sized company seeking simplicity to avoid increased spending and staffing requirements while becoming more responsive to their customers, improving their productivity and keeping their data secure. The Power 520 i Edition integrates features to simplify your IT environment and delivers a complete, cost-effective business system that can grow with your business.

The IBM® Power 520 Express is a 1-, 2- or 4-core entry server utilizing 4.2 GHz or 4.7 GHz POWER6™ processors designed to deliver outstanding business value to smaller and mid-sized businesses while meeting the needs of many mission-critical applications. It offers outstanding price/performance in a commercial IT environment; a breadth of available applications; superior reliability, availability, serviceability (RAS) characteristics architected to avoid, detect and recover from errors to achieve near-continuous availability; EnergyScale™ technologies and software tools to measure energy use and direct policies toward the energy-efficient operation of the server; and outstanding PowerVM™ virtualization to help achieve increased system utilization. This highly flexible, available and easy to manage server enables companies to spend more time running their business utilizing a proven solution from thousands of ISVs that support the IBM i, AIX®, and Linux® operating systems.

SpecificationsStandard Configurations

Processor Cores One, two or four 64-bit 4.2 or 4.7 GHz POWER6

Level 2 Cache 4 MB per processor core (8 MB on 1-core systems)

Level 3 Cache 32MB on 4.7 GHz

Memory 2 GB to 64 GB of DDR2 SDRAM1

Internal drive options Six 3.5" SAS (146.8 GB, 300 GB, 450 GB 15K rpm) or Eight 2.5” SAS (73.4 GB 15K rpm; 146.8 GB 10k rpm) or Eight Solid State Drives (69 GB)

Internal SAS disk storage

Up to 2.7 TB

Media Bays One slimline and one half-high

Adapter slots Two PCI-X (266 MHz (DDR)), Three PCI Express 8x

Standard I/O Adapters

Ethernet Two Ethernet 10/100/1000 Mbps ports, or Four Ethernet 10/100/1000 Mbps ports, (option), or Two 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports (option)

Integrated Disk 3G SAS controller (internal; RAID optional)


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Other ports Three USB, two HMC, two system ports

Expansion Features (optional)

High-performance PCI adapters

4 Gigabit Fibre Channel, 10 Gigabit Ethernet

GX adapters RIO-2, 12x GX

GX slots Two

Virtualiation Technologies

POWER Hypervisor LPAR, Dynamic LPAR, Virtual LAN

PowerVM (optional) Express, Standard, and Enterprise Edition

RAS Features IBM Chipkill™ ECC, bit-steering memory and cache, Processor Instruction Retry, Alternate Processor Recovery, Service processor with fault monitoring, Hot-plug disk bays, Hot-plug PCI slots, Hot-plug and redundant power supplies and cooling fans, Dynamic Processor Deallocation, Extended error handling on PCI-X slots

Operating Systems

IBM i IBM i 6.1 or i 5.4

AIX AIX V5.3 or later

Linux SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for POWER™ or later

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.5 for POWER or later

Physical Characteristics

Power 100v to 127v or 200v to 240v AC

Desk side 21.3"H x 7.2-12.9"W x 24.7"D (540 mm x 182-328 mm x 628 mm); weight: 90 lb (40.8 kg)2

Rack drawer 6.8"H (4U) x 17.3"W x 21.2"D (173 mm x 440 mm x 538 mm); weight: 70 lb (31.7 kg)2

Warranty Nine hours per day, Monday through Friday (excluding holidays), next-business-day for one year (limited) at no additional cost; on-site for selected components; CRU (customer replaceable unit) for all other units (varies by country). Warranty service upgrades and maintenance are available

1 Available configuration options are dependent on the number of processor cores and other factors

2 Weight will vary when disks, adapters and peripherals are installed

3 i 5.4 not supported on 4.7 GHz configurations

IBM Power 520 Features and BenefitsFeature Benefits

POWER6 microprocessor Offers an ideal platform to help you reduce the cost and complexity of your IT environments

Deploy new business applications quickly with a rapid ROI, and improve overall systems management


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Feature Benefits

Integrated IBM i operating system and middleware

This highly integrated approach is designed to help make these systems easier to install, easier to use and easier to manage compared to competitive server architectures

You don’t have to install, test, troubleshoot, and maintain these required software layers

Multiple operating system support

Provides the flexibility to select the right operating system and right applications to meet your business needs

Designed to help simplify your IT environment and broaden your application choices

Mainframe-inspired RAS (Reliability, Availability and Serviceability)

Technology built into the IBM Power platform helps to automate systems management tasks and help prevent downtime

Exceptional Price/Performance

A simple, affordable solution with outstanding capability providing the flexibility to start small and grow to meet new business demands


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IBM i

Companies rely on an efficient IT infrastructure to support business-critical applications. 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 known 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 center 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 means 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 integrates a trusted combination of relational database, security, 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 develops, fully tests and pre-loads the core middleware components of i together up front, whereas on other platforms, operating 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.

Highlights of IBM i 6.1

IBM i 6.1, the latest version of the integrated operating system for Power servers, can deliver significant benefits for i customers including:

Enable consolidation of i and x86 servers with an IBM BladeCenter® solution. i 6.1 is supported in IBM BladeCenter S and H with BladeCenter JS12, JS22, JS23, JS43 blades.

Reduce impact of planned and unplanned outages with high availability solution from IBM. i 6.1 supports the new PowerHA for i disk clustering solution.

Improve performance for i and IBM Systems Storage™ environments through improved SAN support. i 6.1 with POWER6 processor based-servers.


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Improve performance for Java™ and WebSphere® applications with i 6.1 enhancements. In Java application performance tests, IBM i delivered 68-78% more transactions per second than i 5.4 running on the same POWER5+ processor based-server.

Reduce IT costs with an easy, integrated, web-based management environment. i 6.1 delivers Systems Director Navigator for i that enables web-based management. Navigator integrates with IBM Systems Director 6.1 providing a rich management environment for multiple, heterogeneous servers.

Meet regulatory requirements by protecting data at rest and backups of critical business information through advanced encryption options available for i 6.1.

Reduce costs and simplify creation of test and development environments through virtualization of i storage. i 6.1 with POWER6 processor based-servers can be a virtual partition, receiving its I/O resources from another IBM i or PowerVM™ VIOS partition.

Simplify deployment of Java applications and extend value of business applications through a web application server and web services environment provided with i 6.1

Enhance application functionality and performance with new DB2® database functions and management tools provided with i 6.1.

Deliver the performance required for IBM i applications with POWER6 processor based-servers. These 1 to 64 processor core servers provide industry leading performance for IBM i, AIX®, and Linux® operating systems.

IBM i Features and BenefitsFeature Benefits

Integrated middleware for efficient business processing

Standards-based DB2 database

HTTP Server Powered by Apache

Integrated Web application server

Java and J2EE Web-services environment

IBM WebSphere Application Server Express

Zend Core providing PHP runtime environment

Integration with SQL, .NET, DRDA/CLI, ODBC, JDBC

Support for TCP/IPv6

Multiple file systems (Windows, UNIX, NFS)

Support for MySQL database

Virtualized to manage multiple applications and processes

Subsystem workload manager

PowerVM technology providing Micro-Partitioning and shared processor pools

Automatic balancing of processor and memory resources

Optimized for exceptional business resilience

Highly resilient with built-in cluster architecture

Transaction based journaling leveraged by IBM iCluster® and complementary ISV high availability solutions


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Feature Benefits

IBM PowerHA for i disk-based clustering

IBM Storage System resiliency solutions

Trusted security with auditing and compliance tools

Simple to deploy, object based security model

Virus resistance object architecture

Intrusion detection, prevention, and audit journal

Encryption of data on disk and backups

Secure networking with SSL and VPN

Designed for open application design choices

IBM Rational® development tools

C, RPG, COBOL, C++, Java, EGL, PHP, CL

Supports open source applications built to Apache, MySQL, and PHP stack

Services Oriented Architecture

UNIX® application runtime

Simplified operations and storage management

Web-based systems management

IBM Systems Director

Integrated storage management

Support for integrated and IBM System Storage

Hosts managed storage for i, AIX, Linux, Microsoft® Windows®, VMware

Supported by Power VIOS virtualization

Scalable to handle non-disruptive business growth

Support for IBM POWER® processor-based systems and blades

Technology independent machine interface

Automatic software upgrades from previous releases


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Additional Software

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Virtualization with PowerVM

Complexity can work its way into your IT infrastructure, driven by the introduction of new applications and unanticipated growth. However, adding a server each time you have new demand for a new application means that you also require additional floor or rack space, power, cooling, network interfaces, data storage and administrative resources. Such complexity leads to inefficiency.

The answer is consolidation and virtualization. New technologies have emerged that allow organizations to consolidate multiple operating systems and software stacks on a single platform, and allocate the platform to meet specific business and application requirements in a more dynamic fashion. The latest IBM advances in virtualization break out of traditional silos and offer broader platform support and scalability than ever before.

The IBM® Power Systems family of servers includes proven server consolidation platforms that help you control costs while improving overall performance, availability and energy efficiency. With these servers and IBM PowerVM™ virtualization solutions, your business can consolidate applications and servers, virtualize its system resources, and provide a more flexible, dynamic IT infrastructure.

PowerVM delivers industrial strength virtualization for AIX®, IBM i, and Linux® environments on IBM POWER® processor-based systems. IBM Power Systems servers coupled with PowerVM technology are designed to help clients build a dynamic infrastructure, reducing costs, managing risk and improving service levels.

Consolidate diverse sets of applications built for multiple operating systems on a single server: AIX, IBM i, and Linux

Virtualize processor, memory, and I/O resources to increase asset utilization and reduce infrastructure costs

Dynamically adjust server capability to meet changing workload demands

Running Linux on Power i with Power VM with Lx86

Linux on Power i gives you those same enterprise computing advantages while allowing you to run the Linux operating system and applications like Web services, line-of-business applications, and infrastructure services. Linux for Power is designed for Linux solutions that require a full 64-bit architecture or the high-performance capabilities of the POWER6 processor.

Approximately 3,000 Linux applications have been ported through IBM’s Chiphopper™ program to support Power natively. IBM’s PowerVM Lx86 technology


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(formerly called Pave) is bundled into every PowerVM edition (Express, Standard, and Enterprise). It is this unique software translation

technology that will help provide the ongoing healthy ramp of Linux workload adoption on Power i.

PowerVM virtualization allows you to run one or more instances of Linux along with your existing IBM i operating system. With this capability, you can consolidate workloads from several separate servers onto a single Power i, potentially increasing overall systems utilization levels. Consolidating existing distributed x86 Linux environments into a Power i virtualization environment can also help address the challenges of reducing space, power, and overall life-cycle costs. The PowerVM stack improves business responsiveness and operational speed by dynamically reallocating resources to applications as needed to better match changing business cycles or handle unexpected surges in user demand. It can reduce life-cycle costs and make better use of IT assets by significantly improving server use and the sharing of I/O resources. Lastly, it can simplify infrastructure management by making workloads independent of the hardware resources they run on, enabling you to make business-driven policies to deliver resources based on time, cost, and service-level requirements.

High Availability with PowerHA or IBM iCluster

High availability, business continuity, disaster recovery. Power Systems is committed to investing in —and bringing to market— solutions designed to keep your IT environments resilient. IBM engineers work continuously to optimize IBM Power Systems hardware and operating systems to keep pace with the increasing demand for 24x365 availability. PowerHA™ for i is the IBM Power Systems™ offering for high availability and disaster recovery. It’s an IBM shared storage clustering solution deployed by thousands of clients around the world.

One of the foundational elements for providing a dynamic infrastructure is business resiliency. Your customers expect access to business critical applications and data 24X7 and your operating budgets demand the efficient use of capital equipment and labor. With PowerHA for i, you are able to deploy a solution that addresses both your storage requirements and high availability requirements with one integrated topology that is both robust and easy to use.

IBM iCluster® for i a high availability and disaster recovery solution for business applications running in the IBM Power i™ environment, enables by monitoring, notifying and self-correcting replication issues. It also integrates with SAN and third party solutions to replicate AIX, Linux, and Microsoft® Windows® on System i®.

The business benefits of IBM iCluster for i

With iCluster’s MatchMerge, technology, any changes, additions or deletes are mirrored in near real-time to the backup system. As a single integrated product, iCluster is easy to manage, administer and switch. Its capabilities of built-in self-healing, automatic re-synchronization of suspended objects, always active synchronization checking, email / message queue notification of critical messages and alarms and alerts based on user defined thresholds; reduce the amount of time


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spent reacting to problems. The automatic configuration command along with the ability to configure once on the source and push this configuration out to the backup system means businesses are up and running with high availability much faster.

iCluster is flexible and allows concurrent access to read-only business applications, backups or queries, during mirroring. Using it’s unique XtremeCache® technology, iCluster can scale from small and medium businesses to large enterprises. iCluster is backed by extensive IBM global support.

Innovative solutions to simplify your Windows infrastructure

When it comes to simplifying your IT environment, you need to look well beyond basic hardware or server consolidation. In complex environments necessary to support your business needs, one way to reign in costs is better management, better administration and better control.

The integrated design, advanced systems management and enhanced virtualization technologies make the IBM Power i platform ideal to help you reduce costs, improve productivity and increase responsiveness. What the Power i family allows you to do is integrate, extend and grow your business applications like never before by integrating a variety of operating systems, including i5/OS®, AIX, Linux and Windows Server 2003. You choose and run the best mix of applications for your business and manage them centrally. By helping reduce complexity and enabling a high level of IT flexibility, Power i integration with BladeCenter® and the System x™ platform offers an uncomplicated approach to gaining real business value. Innovative integration The Power i platform combines operating systems, middleware, database, security and storage into a single integrated system. This one system can be deployed very quickly, is less costly and offers easy manageability. Instead of supporting and maintaining multiple disparate servers, often one for each application running on Windows, you can simply integrate operations, networking and server management of a Power i, BladeCenter and System x environment to help:

Simplify your Windows infrastructure, and easily grow for the future

Reduce administration and maintenance costs

Run the applications you need—using resources and skills already in place

Centralized, graphical server management

The Power i Navigator provides a graphical user interface (GUI) for managing the System i and attached BladeCenter and System x servers. You can easily start and stop servers, enroll IBM i users in a Windows domain and perform storage management tasks such as adding new virtual disks to a Windows server. In addition, Navigator for Wireless enables you to view server status and start/stop servers from a Web-enabled cell phone, personal digital assistant (PDA) or a Web browser.


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Synchronized security

We all know the importance of effective security. We also understand the time and costs associated to administer and enforce security measures. One of the ways Power i can reduce IT costs is by enabling IBM i OS and Windows Server user IDs and passwords to be managed centrally. Now when a user is added to IBM i OS, the user can be automatically added to the Windows environment with proper authorizations. When the user changes his or her IBM i OS password, the corresponding Windows password can be automatically updated. This integration capability can do a lot to ease user administration efforts because it eliminates the need for users to maintain multiple passwords across multiple systems.

Simplified storage management

One of the most significant advantages of the Power i family is its unique storage architecture. It can provide more flexibility than stand alone Windows server implementations, where dedicated disk drives are typically attached to each server and every server’s capacity is managed separately. With Power i integration, there is a single pool of virtual storage that Windows may share. “Virtual disks” are allocated in IBM i OS to each System x or blade server individually, yet all physical disk capacity and drive utilization is automatically managed by the Power i for improved performance and asset utilization. If a Windows server begins to run out of disk space, additional virtual storage may be allocated simply and easily, without rebooting.

Consolidated backup

IBM i OS can consolidate the backup of Power i, System x and BladeCenter systems allowing businesses to use their hardware and IT support resources more fully. In a typical server farm, data may be scattered across multiple servers, with backup processes running on each one and multiple tape drives to manage. With the integrated Power i environment, all data and files are centralized in virtual storage and a single process can backup IBM i OS and Windows data to a high-speed Power i tape device. It’s that simple.

Flexible server deployment

Power i storage virtualization also provides innovative options for enhancing the reliability and recoverability of your Windows servers. If a physical server fails, you can quickly and easily switch the server’s storage to a “hot spare” System x or blade server. This can reduce the overall number of servers needed by enabling one “spare” to be available to protect multiple production Windows servers.

Business Intelligence with DB2 Web Query

Business Intelligence (BI) is a broad term relating to applications designed to analyze data for purposes of understanding and acting on the key metrics that drive profitability in an enterprise. Key to analyzing that data is providing fast, easy access to it while delivering it in formats or tools that best fit the needs of the end user.At the core of any business intelligence solution are end user query and reporting tools that


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provide intuitive access to data supporting a spectrum of end users from executives to “power users,” from spreadsheet aficionados to the external Internet consumer.

IBM® DB2® Web Query offers a set of modernized tools for a more robust, extensible and productive reporting solution than the popular Query/400 tool. DB2 Web Query for i preserves investments in the reports developed with Query/400 by offering a choice of importing definitions into the new technology or continuing to run existing Query/400 reports as is. But it also offers significant productivity and performance enhancements by leveraging the latest in DB2 for i query optimization technology.

DB2 Web Query provides the ability to query or build reports against data stored in DB2 for i or Microsoft® SQL Server databases through browser-based user interface technologies. Build new reports with ease through the web based, wizard-like Report and Graph Assist tools or the WYSIWYG Power Painter component.

Simplify the management of reports by significantly reducing the number of report definitions required through the use of parameter driven reports. Deliver data to end users in many different formats, including directly into spreadsheets, or in boardroom-quality PDF format, or viewed from the browser in HTML. Leverage advanced reporting functions such as matrix reporting, ranking, color coding, drill-down and font customization to enhance the visualization of DB2 data.

Add the OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing) feature to interact with the data through slicing and dicing and drill-down capabilities. For the end user on the go, choose the Active Reports feature to allow reporting without having to be connected to the server. Build simple dashboards with the optional DB2 Web Query Developer Workbench. Use the Developer Workbench to hide the complexities of the database (for example, join logic) from end users through metadata. Automate report execution and distribution with the DB2 Web Query Report Broker product. Integrate DB2 Web Query reports into applications with a Software Development Toolkit.

Enhance & Extend your Applications with Rational Tools

Many businesses running IBM i have an existing inventory of applications, data and business processes that are rooted in RPG or COBOL language-based, green-screen applications. Businesses trying to enhance or extend these applications to the Web, or integrate with partners and suppliers, often face technical challenges or skills shortages. Rational Software can help businesses overcome these challenges by providing tools, processes and best practices to enable existing and new IT staff to build and deploy modern Web 2.0 or SOA based applications for IBM i without rewriting the proven code that works – thus lowering the risk and total cost of deploying new business solutions.

IBM Rational® Enterprise Modernization solutions delivered through the Rational Software Delivery Platform offer a low-risk, high-value path to IBM i application modernization and flexibility by:

Maximizing reuse of software investments through application discovery, analysis, revitalizing and repurposing core applications


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Leveraging existing and new people skills to deliver modern SOA and Web 2.0 based applications, regardless of the target platform (see http://www-01.ibm.com/software/rational/solutions/em/systems/i/people/ )

Unifying siloed development teams on a open, modular, integrated platform to ensure collaboration, compliance, quality, and visibility across the software delivery lifecycle (see http://www-01.ibm.com/software/rational/solutions/em/systems/i/teams/ )

Web Enablement with PHP

An open and integrated infrastructure can give you added flexibility and choice in adapting to new challenges and opportunities, while taking advantage of your current investments and assets. Customers who need to create innovation in their business and are looking for an easy, cost-effective and rapid way to deploy Web applications can experience a new solution from IBM and Zend Technologies, Inc., who have teamed together to provide an integrated and open Web application deployment environment using PHP on Power Systems™ running IBM i.

PHP is a powerful, open and easy to use Web application environment that has the support of a large community with thousands of applications and components to share. It is an open source scripting language that is designed for Web application development and enables very simple scripting. Short for “PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor,” PHP is widely used for content management, customer relationship management, database access, ecommerce, forums, blogs, wikis and other Web-based applications.

With more than 20 million Internet domains and countless more intranet sites, PHP is gaining attention within the development community and enterprises around the world. With its easy-to-use development approach, PHP is a natural fit for IBM i customers and developers offering improved productivity and rapid deployment. Having PHP capabilities for i makes available existing PHP-based components and applications to i customers.

PHP applications are easily integrated with data in IBM DB2® for i and RPG, COBOL and other business applications on i. With millions of PHP developers, IBM i customers have access to a large pool of skilled resources for Web enablement projects.

Zend Core is now preloaded with IBM i 6.1 and 5.4, making it quick and easy to get PHP up and running. IBM i clients can also download Zend Core and Zend Studio from zend.com. One year of Zend Silver Support is provided for no additional charge with Core and Studio for IBM i.

Unified Communications and Collaboration

Business happens fast. Companies must connect globally distributed workforces in real time, enhancing business agility and improving employee productivity to gain a competitive edge and keep customers happy. IBM Lotus® Sametime® and IBM Lotus


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Notes® software on the powerful IBM Power™ platforms can help your employees collaborate more closely than ever and be more responsive and innovative while reducing costs.

Deploy a complete unified communications solution on one easy-to-manage system built on IBM Power Systems

Unify communications, streamline business processes and boost customer satisfaction and loyalty with IBM Lotus Sametime and IBM Lotus Notes for collaboration and productivity.

Take Advantage of IBM Lotus Notes 8 software’s cool new interface, streamlined e-mail, contact and calendaring features, and quick access to business information.

Make finding, communicating and meeting with people fast and easy with IBM Lotus Sametime software’s integrated IM, presence awareness and Web conferencing capabilities.

Lower your traditional telephony costs with IP telephony solutions from 3Com and Nortel while enhancing the way you do business for increased competitive advantage

In today’s highly competitive business environment, companies everywhere want to extract business advantage from every technology in the enterprise. IP telephony is of great interest because adopting the right solutions for this technology can produce both cost savings and significant business benefits inside the company and with partners, suppliers and customers.

Deploy a complete IP telephony suite on one easy-to-manage system—or even part of a system shared with other applications

Integrate your voice, collaboration and business applications to unify communications, streamline business processes and boost customer satisfaction and loyalty

Connect co-workers, suppliers, partners and customers to improve productivity and collaboration

Lower your traditional telephony costs while enhancing the way you do business for increased competitive advantage

Extend the Power 520 i Edition benefits of simplicity, reliability, integration, vertical growth and security to IP telephony


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