IBM Global Technology Services Solution Brief

Managed Extended IaaS for IBM i

Optimize the IBM i operating system Highlights through a managed cloud infrastructure

• Aids business growth by The IBM i operating system (OS) includes robust architecture making your IT and security-rich features and helps promote business infrastructure more agile resilience. As an IBM i OS customer, you may be seeking to • Helps reduce IT costs optimize your platform and successfully refocus your through an OPEX model resources on infrastructure support. To do this process, you need a trustworthy managed services provider that offers an • Provides continual support operational expenditure (OPEX) model, extensive resources from IBM® i experts and cloud options for IBM i OS, IBM z Systems®, x86 and Linux.

In response to the needs of your growing infrastructure, IBM i OS is now delivered as a cloud model through the Managed Extended Cloud IaaS for IBM i offering. It can provide you with a multitenant, scalable, security-rich and fully managed IBM i environment and be delivered through an infrastructure (IaaS) cloud consumption model. This solution helps you support current and new workloads with an agile, configurable, managed infrastructure featuring some of the latest hardware and software and the ability to scale as needed.

Supports growth through a more agile IT infrastructure

As a cloud and managed services provider, IBM offers the agility, efficiency and scalability to address your growing framework and support needs. IBM provides an on-demand IaaS cloud model that supports your expanding data and application requirements. Additionally, the IBM cloud solution hybrid model allows you to move workloads into the cloud to fit your business needs. IBM Global Technology Services Solution Brief

Can lower IT costs through an OPEX model

Shifting your IBM i OS resources from a capital expenditure (CAPEX) to an OPEX model lets you avoid a large capital investment in IT infrastructure. This model can save you up to 30 percent1 through IT budget reductions as compared to a standard offering model, and further reduces IT spending by supporting hybrid and public cloud workloads.

Supported by highly skilled IBM i experts

As the source of the IBM i OS, IBM can provide the multiple infrastructure skills needed to manage an IBM i environment. And with an experienced global staff at your disposal, you’ll be continually supported even as the IBM i environment undergoes rapid changes. This dedicated support allows for nearly continuous business readiness. IBM provides standard managed services, such as monitoring, system support and backup management to enable nearly always- on service for your IBM i applications. The experienced IBM delivery team manages nearly 300 clients and 2,500 IBM i partitions.

1Based on client engagements and not a guarantee of future performance. IBM Global Technology Services Solution Brief

Why IBM? For more information

IBM has more than 35 years of experience To learn more about the Managed Extended managing enterprise Cloud IaaS for IBM i offering, contact your environments and delivering managed IBM representative or visit .com/us- infrastructure services that provide key en/marketplace/cloud-managed-services- business value. Additionally, IBM is an for-ibm-i. industry leader in enterprise across all platforms. You can benefit from the collective experience of more than 500 IBM i IT specialists who, with exceptional expertise in IBM i applications, manage approximately 80,000 incidents and 15,000 changes annually1. IBM Global Technology Services Solution Brief

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