The decision to run the applications on hundreds of virtual servers, rather than an equivalent number of physical boxes, is expected to provide a significant savings in energy, software and labor costs, Amway said.
The Oracle e-Business suite applications that include order entry, financials and shipping, will be deployed on multiple System p servers, with logical partitions ranging from three to 30 on a frame. Running the AIX operating system, these machines will handle production, development, test and quality assurance functions and will serve organizations throughout the company.
Randy Gast, supervisor, server technology, Amway, said: The IBM System p servers will be vital to running Amway’s business, as they enable our independent business owners to order and receive product. The System p virtualized platform has been rock-solid, secure and extremely flexible.
