With the introduction of POWER6™ based technology and PowerVM™ virtualization, Power Systems has established a position of financial and technical leadership and is poised to lead for the long term. If you are a HP PA-RISC or Sun SPARC customer, you may be aware of the IBM lead in UNIX® solutions but may be concerned with the risk of changing technology. IBM has helped over 1,000 clients migrate from competitive systems to Power Systems. IBM Power Rewards can help you access that experience and reduce the risk as you migrate to the industry's leading UNIX platform.
Power = Migration - Risk
Introducing Power Rewards
The simple way to take the risk out of moving to the right UNIX platform.
For the last time.
Clients around the world have used systems based on the IBM Power Architecture™ to help them maximize the return of their IT investments. By delivering exceptional performance with high reliability and energy efficiency, these systems have helped companies respond quickly to changing business conditions and take advantage of new growth opportunities. New systems based on POWER6™ processor and PowerVM technology can help deliver better return than ever before.
But not all IT customers enjoy the same new technology opportunities. Customers with systems based on HP's PA-RISC are already using the last PA-RISC systems ever designed, and, as early as the end of this year, may not be able to purchase more of the systems they are using today. These customers are facing the challenge of migrating their work to new technology with all of the risks associated with recompiling applications and retuning to match the capabilities of new systems. Similarly many customers using UltraSPARC IIIi, IV, and IV+ technology had made the decision to wait for the availability of new ROCK processors scheduled for introduction in the second half of 2008, but recently ROCK was delayed a year until the second half of 2009. Now these customers face the necessity to wait even longer or the challenge of moving to new technology to meet immediate needs and then moving again later.
IBM understands the challenge facing these customers. After all, over the last several years, IBM migration experts have migrated over 1,000 clients mostly from HP and Sun systems to Power™ Systems. Now we are going to help these customers migrate to the industry's #1 UNIX platform, Power Systems, with lower risk. How can we do that? IBM introduces Power Rewards. This program will allow clients who are purchasing new Power Systems to earn extra value from IBM by trading in their competitive servers. Each core traded in will earn reward points that can be redeemed for high value IBM migration expertise, services and products. IBM Migration services are delivered by experienced IBM and IBM Business Partner consultants who have participated in helping clients all over the world who have already moved up to IBM. Our proven record of compatibility moving from generation to generation of POWER processors means that you can make your next platform move your last platform move. As Power systems move forward, you will too - without requiring painful migrations or recompilations.
Power Rewards Details
The value of Power Rewards can be up to $4,000 per core traded in. For example, a client who trades in a 64-core HP 9000 Superdome could earn 256,000 points. Those points could be redeemed as 680 hours of Migration services. That is 680 hours of experienced consultancy which has a list price (US$) of $255,000 that can help reduce the risk of migration.
Power rewards rules: It's simple.
- Buy a Power server.
- Trade in a qualifying competitive server and get Power Rewards.
- Use Power Rewards to migrate to the #1 UNIX platform with IBM expertise.
- Enjoy the benefits of moving up to IBM.
Eligibility: To earn Power rewards points purchase a qualifying system from IBM or an authorized IBM Business Partner. At the time of the purchase, inform IBM of the systems that will be transferred to IBM. You will be asked to complete the Power Rewards Customer Agreement. In this agreement, you will certify the number and type of cores contained in those systems and that the systems are currently in productive use. You will also agree to transfer those systems within 90 days after the installation of the qualifying IBM system. Note that Power rewards may not be combined with rebates and other special offers. If you have any question about whether your purchase and equipment transfer is eligible for Power rewards, please contact your IBM representative or IBM Business Partner.
Points: Power rewards points are earned based on the number and types of cores included in the transfer to IBM. The points you can earn for each core is shown in the Rewards Points Schedule. The maximum number of points earned is equal to a percentage of the number of dollars paid for the qualifying purchase. That percentage will be up to 50% for certain configurations. For example, if you purchase a IBM Power 595 for $1,500,000, the maximum number of Power Rewards points you can earn is 750,000 regardless of the number of competitive cores you transfer to IBM.
The points will be credited to you when you have contracted for the qualifying system, and completed the Power Rewards Customer Agreement. You may redeem the points as soon as they have been credited. However if you do not install the qualifying system or you do not transfer the competitive systems to IBM within 90 days of installation of the qualifying system, then you will be charged for the rewards you have redeemed at the rate of $1US per point.
Power Rewards redemption
Power Rewards qualifying systems
IBM Power 520 Express, Power 550 Express, Power 570, Power 595, IBM System p5™ 590/595, and IBM System i™ 595
Power Rewards Points Schedule
| Core Type Traded In | Points per core* |
|---|---|
| PA-RISC | 4,000 |
| SPARC, Itanium, MIPS, Alpha | 1,000 |
* Points rewarded per core are subject to change without notice
Power Rewards
| Points | Power Reward |
|---|---|
| 20,000 | Active Energy Manager Implementation JumpStart |
| 50,000 | Benchmark Assessments |
| 7,000 | Cooling Trends & Data Center Best Practices Assessment Workshop |
| 30,000 | Data Center Thermal Analysis & Optimization |
| 6,000 | DBA Consultant Assist (1 week) |
| 6,000 | Embedded Resource – SAP Migrations (per week with 2 week minimum) |
| 15,000 | Full Assessment – ERP Migration (per week, two week minimum) |
| 15,000 | Full Assessment – Database Migration (per week, two week minimum) |
| 10,000 | HACMP Health Check for AIX |
| 10,000 | IBM BladeCenter with POWER Blades for AIX and Linux Assessment |
| 1,000 | IBM Tivoli Enterprise Edition for AIX ( 2 processors) |
| 30,000 | IT Systems Energy Efficiency Assessment |
| 6,000 | Migration Discovery Workshops |
| 12,000 | Migration Planning Workshops |
| 8,000 | Migration verification/certification for SAP (1 week) |
| 15,000 | Migration verification/certification for SAP (2 weeks) |
| 4,000 | Migration Workshop – Databases |
| 8,000 | Performance Assessment and Knowledge Transfer -i595 (add 2000 points for on-site) |
| 9,000 | PowerVM (APV) Implementation |
| 10,000 | PowerVM/Live Partition Mobility Jumpstart for AIX |
| 10,000 | PowerCare Security Assessment |
| 8,000 | Power Systems Availability assessment |
| 15,000 | Rapid Assessment – Database migration (per week) |
| 15,000 | Rapid Assessments for ERP Migrations (per week) |
| 10,000 | Readiness Assessment of Cool Blue Rear Door Heat eXchanger |
* Rewards and Points required to redeem rewards are subject to change without notice. For more information on the available rewards, click here.
For complete comparison claim details go to ibm.com/takebackcontrol/benchmark.
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