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HIGHER SERVICE EXPECTATIONS. The average cost per hour of unplanned downtime is $42,000 per 1,000 transactions. RISING COST PRESSURES. In distributed computing environments, up to 85% of computing capacity can sit idle. NEW RISKS AND THREATS. 33% of consumers notified of a security breach will terminate their relationship with the company they perceive as responsible.

You know a smart business with a smart IT infrastructure when you see one

It's the retailer you turn to first because the merchandise is always original and available. The medical centre that coordinates your health records across 22 facilities. The power company that lets you set your own usage by appliance.

Our planet is getting smarter

These advances are possible because digital intelligence can be infused into almost any object, process or natural system that makes up the way our world works. IBM is working with visionary organisations to use this intelligence to do almost everything — from traffic flows to electric power to food supply chains — more effectively.

While select systems are becoming smarter, the vast majority of the world's IT infrastructure — mobile devices, PCs, servers, data centres, software and the processes that make it all work — remain slow, inefficient and incapable of the work ahead. But there are new computing capabilities that can literally "reinvent" existing IT properties, making them leaner, flexible, resilient and smarter.


Dynamic IT Infrastructure

Did you know that by 2010 there will be one billion transistors per human?

Or that only 3% of power consumed by Data Centres is used for Computing?

Find out how to build a Dynamic IT Infrastructure.

 

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SOA

IT Infrastructure Illustration 1

Often, the first step to an agile organisation starts with connecting your applications in a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Yansha (US), a Chinese retailer, implemented the first SOA-based supply chain, reducing order lead time from 2.5 days to 4.5 hours.

Dynamic IT Infrastructure

IT Infrastructure Illustration 2

A dynamic IT infrastructure is designed to help clients integrate the growing intelligent business infrastructure with the necessary underlying design of a flexible, secure and seamlessly managed IT infrastructure.


How IBM can help

Dynamic Infrastructure:

IBM’s unique strategy (331KB) Enterprise Strategy Group white paper (822KB)


Smarter Business & Technology

You've seen the areas where progress is still needed to build a smarter planet ... now why not explore the business solutions and technology that will help drive the change that is needed.

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