Ready to migrate to Linux? You're in good company, and IBM's ready to help. Whether the reasons are strategic, financial, or both, companies continue to turn to Linux solutions from IBM as a lower cost, open, and flexible alternative to proprietary operating systems.
Regardless of your migration path, IBM is prepared to provide the hardware, integrated systems and virtualization management, software, services, support, and financing necessary to make a migration possible. IBM can provide the broadest and most complete set of Linux solutions in the industry.
Where do I start?
Server migrations can be very complex, so IBM makes it easy. Our free Server Makeover Analysis can help you understand where to begin and what to do to achieve the best return on investment and lowest total cost of ownership. IBM will develop a high-level technical and financial roadmap that identifies optimization opportunities within the server environment and the best targets for migration.
Download the Server Makeover analysis brochure (PDF,150KB) to learn more, and take the first step to understand what your options are, and help you identify what you can and should migrate.
Need a hand?
When migrating to Linux, a trusted partner with a thorough, tested process is a key requirement. IBM has experience migrating thousands of clients to Linux on IBM Systems with the Migration Factory.. The Migration Factory uses a five-step process that has been meticulously refined over 25 years, helping our clients migrate to IBM Systems running any supported operating system, including Linux. While no two projects are identical, the Migration Factory process helps ensure that each engagement is a success whether it's an infrastructure migration, database migration, ISV package, custom applications, or combination of all four.
Getting started with a migration is easy. To migrate to Linux on any IBM platform - System x, Power Systems, or System z - contact IBM's Migration Factory:
Call +1-866-migr8te, priority code 6N7BU04W
Analyst whitepapers
Interested in a second opinion? These whitepapers from respected industry analysts provide deeper insights into Linux on IBM Systems, as well as competitive comparisons.
- Linux and Solaris: An Analysis of Two Strategies for Enterprise Operating Systems (293KB)
Solaris or Linux: Which operating system is the better choice? Oracle has drastically changed Sun's Solaris strategy and Linux has matured. Read this comparative report before you choose.
- Linux: IBM’s Workload Optimization Growth Engine (313.5KB)
Clabby Analytics takes a closer look at IBM’s Linux market positioning, and at how Linux is being deployed on IBM’s three server environments (System x, Power Systems, System z)
- Harmonizing the Twin Trends of Open Source and Virtualization: How Kernel Based Virtual Machine (KVM) Drives Enterprise Business Value (200KB)
Cabot Partners explores the evolution of open virtualization, and its importance in enterprise IT environments.
- How the Oracle Acquisition of Sun Has Changed the Competitive Dynamics in the Server Business (612KB)
Clabby Analytics predicts a forthcoming split of the the worldwide server market, and discusses the value of selecting a hardware platform by workload requirements.
- Energizing the Mainframe Mainstream: The Complementary Benefits of IBM’s Software and Linux on System z (150KB)
Charles King of Pund-IT discusses the benefits of running IBM Software on Linux on the IBM System z.
- Virtualization & TCO: Linux vs. Microsoft (738KB)
Dan Olds of Gabriel Consulting Group explores the nature of virtualization adoption between Linux and Microsoft Windows shops, and discovers that broader virtualization adoption by Linux users drives lower TCO.
- Linux in the Mainstream: Growing Deployment of Business-Critical Workloads: (191KB)
Al Gillen from IDC explores how and why Linux has continued to accelerate from the edge of the network into the core of the datacenter.
- Linux on the Desktop: Lessons from mainstream business adoption: (439KB)
Freeform Dynamics surveys over a thousand experienced adopters and finds that 70% of enterprise Linux desktop rollouts are driven by cost, and that for the right users the implementations are generally smoother than expected.
- Linux and Solaris: An Analysis of Two Strategies for Enterprise Operating Systems.
This paper provides an analysis that aids in the selection of the most appropriate platform for enterprise environments.
- Adding Business Value with Cross-Platform Solutions: (167KB)
IDC interviews Power and System z mainframe customers and discovers an average payback period of 6.3 months.
- Has IBM Kept Their Linux Promise? (475KB)
Dan Olds of Gabriel Consulting Group asks whether IBM has kept the commitments they made in 1999.
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