Escala solutions : Consolidation
Escala AIX servers provide a break-through in consolidation capabilities through mainframe-derived virtualisation built into Bull’s unique multi-layer, automated workload management model. IT managers can now significantly drive down TCO, infrastructure complexity and the need for human intervention.
Escala AIX servers and solutions are designed to bring optimized ROI through multiple ‘On-Demand’, optimisation and consolidation features. Not only do they offer the highly efficient AIX / POWER5™ architecture that almost doubles the already leading processing performance on a single system, but they also offer “Power on Demand”, making CPU and memory components kick-in automatically in case the system requires extra performance, thus enabling you to pay only for the processing power you
use.
To manage consolidation projects Bull Unify methodology associated with an economic analysis model take into account the economic and technical aspects of operation and continuity of services as well as the management of the change within the entity.
Escala AIX servers introduce ground-breaking features and functions which allow customers to significantly simplify their infrastructures and benefit from:
- Mainframe reliability and availability, ensuring uptime and service levels
- Lower administration complexity and costs due to a reduced number of physical servers and Escala’s new automatic “cross-partition” workload balancing capabilities
- Higher utilisation rates and much less over-sizing: up to 80% use of the purchased resources (compared to 10%-20% on distributed servers today)
- Less money spent on software licenses due to the high performance of POWER5 processors (on “per-processor” licensing models)
- Increased flexibility: create partitions “on-the-fly” to reduce the time and cost of deploying of new applications or test environments
- Lower overall infrastructure costs due to fewer required SAN switches, routers and cables
- Lower power consumption and cooling overheads
- Lower floor space requirements through “infrastructure in a box” approach
White Papers
Learn More on this subject. Download the related White paper:
• Escala Virtualisation & Consolidation: Break-through consolidation capabilities for simplified infrastructures and lower administration complexity 
• Escala & Symantec Veritas: How to simplify heterogeneous server
and storage architectures
• Bull Escala: Scalability & High Availability for Business Critical
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