Aix Operating System

AIX® helps you to meet the demanding requirements for performance, energy efficiency, flexibility and availability in your IT environment.

• Market momentum: AIX has dramatically expanded its share of the UNIX® market over the past several years – go with the leader!*
• Unmatched performance: Industry-leading benchmarks underscore the highly scalable performance of AIX on IBM systems running Power Architecture™ technology-based processors.
• Virtualization: AIX provides software-based and exploits hardware-based virtualization capabilities. These capabilities can help you to consolidate workloads to increase server utilization and lower energy and other costs.
• Security: AIX includes a number of features designed to provide for a secure IT environment – and AIX can integrate into your existing security infrastructure.
• Broad application support: Independent software vendors recognize AIX as a premier UNIX operating system. With over 8000 applications from over 3000 ISVs, the applications you need are probably already available on AIX.
• Binary compatibility: AIX has a long history of maintaining binary compatibility from one release to the next – so that you can upgrade to the latest release with confidence.**
• Legacy systems inspiration: AIX delivers the reliability, availability and security of a mainframe environment including industry-leading availability techniques.
• Simple migration: IBM's customized service offerings make migration from competitive UNIX platforms to AIX quick and easy–consolidate all of your UNIX workload onto AIX.