IBM eServer® iSeries™ systems can help solve the complexity crisis. It is an integrated system designed to run thousands of the world's most popular business applications. It provides faster, more reliable and highly secure ways to help you simplify your IT environment by reducing the number of servers and associated staff required. This can help you save money and reinvest in growing your business.

Extensive growth options, resource virtualization and intuitive management tools mean that iSeries systems can provide not only the power and capacity to run core business applications, but also the freedom and scalability to add new e-business applications on the same server.

As the industry's first systems based on advanced IBM POWER5™ microprocessor technology—the ninth generation of IBM 64-bit processor technology—IBM eServer iSeries systems are designed to reduce complexity, streamline your infrastructure and enhance productivity through server consolidation. They enable you to run on demand computing environments for IBM i5/OS™ (the latest generation of IBM OS/400®), IBM AIX 5L™, Microsoft® Windows®, Linux, IBM WebSphere®, Lotus® Domino® and Java™ solutions—all on a single highly integrated, powerful server. By integrating applications onto a single platform, you can grow your IT infrastructure along with your company—without adding an extra server every time you take on a new business challenge.

The iSeries family is equipped with a range of dynamic application workload management features designed to enable businesses to adjust capacity and performance dynamically—even automatically—to meet constantly shifting business priorities and increase server utilization rates. The management tools incorporated into iSeries systems can give your company the option to run multiple subsystems, allowing administrators to enhance productivity by balancing the processing priorities for different applications running within the same operating system.

To deliver new value to your business, you need to integrate people, processes and information. The iSeries integrated design helps make this process simple. It combines the operating systems, middleware, database, security and storage into one system that can be deployed quickly and is easy to manage. All the parts of the products are designed, built and tested together, end-to-end — eliminating the seams between most layers of technology and applications.

Staying competitive in the on demand world requires that companies react at the pace of e-business and deploy applications quickly—which is why iSeries systems include a complete suite of tools to support integrated Web enablement. Integrated software includes IBM DB2 Universal Database™ (UDB) software with i5/OS V5R3 enhancements, including automated database reorganization; IBM Lotus Domino software; IBM WebSphere Application Server-Express for iSeries (WAS Express); and an HTTP Web server (powered by Apache).

iSeries systems even integrate storage resources to help promote innovation in your business. Instead of requiring dedicated storage on individual servers or a complex storage area network (SAN), iSeries systems can allow you to share a single storage pool—providing an integrated approach to resource management and backup. In addition, with a virtualized, high-bandwidth network inside the system, you can communicate securely between applications without dedicating expensive network devices.

Every iSeries server is delivered with the future in mind—enabling businesses to seamlessly upgrade their systems between technology generations while also helping to protect their investments in storage and networking. Most importantly, iSeries systems are designed to adapt to disruptive changes and deliver outstanding levels of performance and capacity.

iSeries systems can even help avoid the headaches of security problems and viruses. Every iSeries has designed in virus-resistance and security features to help keep your business information safe and within your control.

Self-managing features also can help businesses avoid the expense of changing their applications and processes—by automating the monitoring of key processes, these features can help promote high availability and prevent downtime