Re: xSeries and iSeries integration - ROI

The key benefit is operational.  You can back up the storage spaces from
the iSeries with your normal backup, and they are easily restored.  In most
environments, PC servers need to be rebuilt.

The downside is BCRS.  BCRS doesn't want a lot of money to give you the
iSeries redundancy, because they have many customers that will share that
same box, they likely won't have many that will want to use the xSeries, so
they will stick it to you there.

Al

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I'm looking into the benefits of consolidating our Windows server
environment (currently about 125 servers) into an iSeries / xSeries
configuration.

Before anything like this would even be considered my manager would need to
understand what the return on investment would be over time. Even though I
see lots of wonderful technical reasons for moving in this direction I
would
need to prove that it also could save us money over time too.

Has anyone out there prepared an ROI analysis on this subject that they
might be willing to share? Also, has anyone actually planned and
implemented
a server consolidation using IBM iSeries and xSeries? If so I'd love to get
some information from you on how you convinced your company that this was a
good idea....

Kenneth

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