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Whitepapers

IDC Whitepaper: IBM i and Power Systems: Leveraging Virtualization in the Datacenter for Flexibility and Business Continuity

The IBM Power Systems product line supports a broad range of workloads running on IBM AIX (Unix), IBM i, and Linux operating systems. This paper focuses on the IBM i operating environment and its ability to support business-critical workloads running on Power Systems. IBM i (formerly known as i5/OS) supports virtualized, highly available transaction processing and line-of-business (LOB) applications and its typically deployed in industries such as financial services, manufacturing, and distribution, where business continuity that ensures access to end users and end customers in the organization and the supply chain is especially important.

Bron: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/i/analyst/idc_virtualization.html

Value Proposition for IBM System i - Cost/Benefit Case for SAP All-in-One Solutions Deployments

This whitepaper by ITG highlights the strengths of the IBM System i platform versus Intel platforms for a SAP implementation. The whitepaper compares System i TCO and TCA to that of an Intel environment with and without VMware.
Bron: ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/common/ssi/sa/wh/n/isw03005usen/ISW03005USEN.PDF

IDC: The Business Value of IBM System i in Midsize Business Deployments (July 2007)

The Clipper Group: IBM i – Using a Common Platform to Reduce TCO with Higher Performance and Lower Energy Consumption (Oct. 2008)

Redbooks

Implementing SAP Applications on the IBM System i Platform with IBM i5/OS

Bron: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247166.html?Open

An Overview of Installing SAP Applications on System i Models

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp4189.html?Open

SAP NetWeaver Java on IBM i5/OS

Bron: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp4200.html?Open