Server migration for midsized business

IBM has the experience and skill to help with your server migration

If you're considering server migration, but do not know where to start - IBM can help. With IBM and its Business partners, you gain access to a highly trained team that can assess your current situation, discuss your business objectives and develop a solution to fit your needs that includes implementation and continued support. IBM believes there is no one-size-fits-all system that can adequately meet the varied needs of today's business. IBM offers a range of systems and storage that offer you the choice of technology, performance, scalability, operating system, and more so you have the flexibility to meet the needs of your business.

FEATURED TOPIC: IBM Systems Migration Assurance for Midsized Business
If your IT environment is complex and costly and your current vendor roadmap is unclear, take advantage of our complimentary migration assessment tools, highly experienced system migration experts, and comprehensive financing options.

IBM Systems Migration Assurance is the key to bringing everything together and unlocking new opportunities for you in the current environment. This suite of tools helps you analyse the business risks, understand the financial benefits and select a proven roadmap to migrate to a platform that’s just right for your purposes. IBM is a vendor that will be with you through every step of the migration process—from the initial decision to the business case to the implementation plan.

"IBM has a reputation of being there for its customers. It was the logical choice for us."
—Dave Bossi, Vice President, Information Technology, Adecco Group North America

• Virtualisation and consolidation

  IBM Power Systems	IBM BladeCenter and System x with VMWare	IBM Systems Storage DS5020 Express	IBM San Volume Controller Entry Edition (SVC EE)
  IBM PowerVM™ provides industrial-strength virtualisation technologies for IBM AIX®, IBM i and Linux® operating systems on IBM Power Systems™, enabling you to utilise the full capacity of processors and memory in virtual environments. PowerVM allows you to consolidate applications, servers and virtualisation system resources, and provide a more flexible, dynamic IT infrastructure. Learn more (US)	IBM offers the broadest portfolio of industry-standard IBM System x® and IBM BladeCenter® servers to help you lower IT costs and deliver benefits such as: Increased server utilisation Reduced system management complexity Lower power and cooling costs Reduced demand for data centre floor space Lower IT total cost of ownership Learn more (US)	In a continuing effort to provide storage solutions that are designed to provide low total cost of ownership (TCO), high performance, robust functionality and unparalleled ease of use, IBM recently announced the IBM System Storage™ DS5020 Express storage server. Next-generation 8 Gbps Fibre Channel connections that enable cost savings and infrastructure simplification Balanced performance well-suited for virtualisation and consolidation Self-encrypting drives secure data throughout your drive’s lifecycle Support for intermixing FC/FDE/SATA drives enables cost effective tiered storage Learn more (US)	Provides enterprise-class storage virtualisation in a more affordable package for mid-sized businesses. SVC EE simplifies management of storage infrastructure, tiered storage, and advanced copy functions for storage systems. Provides a single easy-to-use point of control even as your storage needs grow Helps improve productivity of administration staff Learn more (US)

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• Business continuity – high availablity, backup, recovery

  IBM Power Systems	IBM Comprehensive Data Protection Solution Express	IBM Systems Storage DS5020 Express
  IBM PowerHA™ Delivers high availability solutions for UNIX®, Linux and IBM i (IBM i5/OS®), helping you protect critical business applications from outages—planned or unplanned. IBM Capacity Backup for Power is designed to support your disaster recovery and high availability needs. This solution requires at least two systems. If one system is not available the other one takes over. Learn more (US)	This solution consists of Tivoli FastBack, System x3550 server and IBM DS3000 Express/DS4000 Express/DS5000 series storage. It helps reduce the business impact of virtually any data loss by recovering Microsoft Windows operating system–based data and applications nearly instantly, from virtually any previous point in time, from wherever your data is stored. This turnkey solution can be added into each of your remote offices, and a similar system can be used in the central office to consolidate backups from the remote offices. Learn more	Offers a choice of multiple redundant array of independent disks (RAID) levels and redundant, hot-swappable components to help you maintain data availability and security. . Powerful dynamic capabilities go beyond respond and recover to help protect data and prevent failure. Benefit from enterprise-class disaster recovery strategies and point-in-time copying with IBM FlashCopy® solutions. Learn more (US)

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• Energy efficiency

  IBM Power Systems	IBM BladeCenter and System x	IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager
  The IBM Power 520, 550 and 560 Express servers can provide you with the technology foundation to manage your business efficiently and cost-effectively. Power Systems energy management solutions: Monitor and control energy usage to help you manage server room energy efficiency as well as performance, reliability and availability Include innovative solutions which support virtualisation and server consolidation efforts proven to help conserve energy usage and manage costs. Learn more (US)	IBM offers the broadest portfolio of industry-standard IBM System x and IBM BladeCenter servers that can help you lower IT costs and deliver benefits such as: Increased server utilisation Reduced system management complexity Lower power and cooling costs Reduced demand for server room floor space Lower IT total cost of ownership. Learn more	IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™ helps you understand exact power and cooling costs, manage the efficiency of your current environment and reduce energy costs. This solution: Enables platform monitoring and reporting of energy usage across supported servers Helps you understand how energy is used within the server room, and provides the insight required to optimise servers and their workloads for the best performance. Learn more (US).