IBM z Rewards Program

Server migration

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Introducing z Rewards
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System z™ delivers large scale consolidation capabilities for savings of up to 80% in total cost of ownership compared to distributed platforms.¹ As part of our commitment to deliver on-going price performance improvement and to increase the economic value to our clients we are taking actions to reduce the cost of deploying and growing new workloads on System z. Our goal is to assure we continue to provide highly competitive alternatives for new workloads being deployed on System z. In less than one year, IBM has migrated more than 150 customers worldwide from competitive systems to IBM mainframes in industries such as Distribution, Financial Services, General Business and Public Sector. IBM System z Rewards can help you access that experience and reduce the risk as you migrate to industry-leading virtualization.

IBM z Rewards can help reduce the risk as you migrate to System z.

Learn more about IBM System z

Introducing z Rewards

A new program that simplifies migrating applications from HP, SUN and other competitive servers to IBM System z10.

This program will allow clients who are purchasing qualifying new System z 10 capacity to earn extra value from IBM when moving workloads from competitive servers to System z. You earn reward points that can be redeemed for high value IBM migration expertise and services. The amount of rewards you can earn is based on the number of competitive cores that the workloads run on before they are moved to System z. IBM migration services are delivered by experienced IBM and System z Authorized Business Partner consultants who have participated in helping clients who have already moved up to IBM.

Our proven record of compatibility moving from generation to generation of System z processors means that you can make your next platform move your last platform move.

Our results.

For 2008 full year, Gartner reports that System z revenue share for servers priced at or above $250,000 is up 2 points and System z leads #2 HP by 17 points for full year.²
According to IDC, System z has nearly doubled its revenue share since Q4’00 from 17% to 32%.³
Cross-industry appeal: all of the top 50 worldwide banks⁴ and 22 of the top 25 U.S. retailers⁵ run System z.
Installed capacity of new workload engines is growing rapidly comparing the first half of 2008 to the first half of 2007 - with Linux specialty engines MIPS (IFLs) growing at 30%, Java specialty engines MIPS (zAAPs) growing at 49% and database specialty engines MIPS (zIIPs) growing at 141%.⁶

Since 2004, more than 5,000 companies worldwide have replaced their HP, Sun, and EMC products with energy-efficient IBM Systems and Storage. Companies have invested in IBM's System z to tackle their most challenging business objectives and to help reduce sprawling data center costs for labor, energy and real estate.

IBM understands there are costs to migrate from HP and SUN servers to IBM System z10. IBM introduces z Rewards to help reduce the cost of services to migrate from HP, SUN and other competitive servers to IBM System z 10. Ensure availability of appropriate migration services for smooth transition and on time delivery of migration efforts.

Consolidate your workload on a single IBM System z mainframe.

Replace UNIX® and x86 processors at a 10 - 30 to 1 IFL ratio
Reduce UNIX and x86 OTC SW support costs at a 10 - 30 to 1 ratio
Consolidate x86 software licenses at up to a 30 to 1 ratio
Leverage the ability of Linux on System z on z10 EC to run many distributed workloads and to consolidate x86 core processors at up to a 30:1 ratio to deliver significant IT Cost savings⁷

Here’s a cool example:
IBM will consolidate 3,900 servers to about 20 System z10 servers with expected reductions in energy consumption of over 80%.

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z Rewards details

The value of z Rewards can lead to a significant reduction in the cost of migration. Contact your System z specialist or Business Partner for your eligible System z opportunity.

Qualifying System z purchases:
Available on new or incremental IFLs associated with:

eligible new System z 10BC machine⁸
a new System z10EC machine
MES capacity upgrades on existing System z 10BC or z10EC
a machine/model capacity upgrade to System z 10BC or z10EC⁹

Core Type Workload is moved from	Points per core*
PA-RISC	4,000
SPARC	8,000
Itanium, MIPS, Alpha	1,000
HP ProLiant, Sun Fire Xxxx0, Dell System zEdge and Whitebox systems running Linux, Windows or Solaris	500

z Rewards rules: It's simple.

Buy new capacity on a System z10
Move workload from HP, SUN and other non-IBM qualifying competitive servers to an installed or new eligible System z and get z Rewards.
Use z Rewards to migrate to the IBM mainframe with IBM expertise.
Enjoy the benefits of moving up to IBM.

Eligibility: To earn z Rewards Points purchase qualifying System z capacity from IBM or an authorized IBM Business Partner. At the time of the purchase, let IBM know about the workloads that will be moved and complete the z Rewards Program 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. Note that z Rewards may not be combined with rebates and other special offers and are not transferable. Contact your local System z sales representative or Authorized System z IBM Business Partner for maximum rewards eligibility.

Points: z Rewards Points are earned based on the number and types of cores used for the workloads moved to IBM. The points you can earn for each core is shown in the Rewards Points Schedule. The maximum number of z Rewards Points per Replaced Machine is dependent upon the configuration and final pricing of the System z capacity purchased from IBM or your authorized IBM Business Partner, and can be as high as 50% of the customer end user price of the qualifying System z purchase. Your IBM representative or IBM Business Partner can help you calculate the limit for your transaction. The points will be credited to you when you have contracted for the new System z 10 capacity, and completed the z Rewards Program Agreement.

The points will be credited to you when you have contracted for the qualifying system, and completed the z Rewards Customer Agreement. You may redeem the points as soon as they have been credited. You have up to one year from the delivery of your new System z10 capacity to use your z Reward Points. However if you do not install the qualifying system, then you will be charged for the rewards you have redeemed at the rate of $1US per point.

z Rewards redemption

You may redeem the points as soon as they have been credited. You may only redeem z Reward Points once for each non-IBM Machine Type/Model Serial Number from which you are removing productive workload. You have up to one year from the installation of your new System z10 capacity to redeem your z Rewards Points, after which they are void. System z Rewards Points may not be redeemed outside of the country earned. If you do not install the new System z 10 capacity, then you will be charged for the rewards you have redeemed at the rate of $1US per point.

If you are a U.S. commercial, state and local government, or education customer, you can participate. If you are a U.S. federal government customer, call 800-333-6705 to determine eligibility.

Redeem against the following eligible IBM services.

z Rewards Points and Services

Points	z Rewards Services
2,500	Light benchmark for System z	The WW Client Centers Benchmark Centers can provide fast and easy access to low cost, short term, pre-configured remote system environments at current software release levels, for Proof of Concept or small benchmarking engagements. Both z/OS and Linux on System z environments are offered.
10,000	Sysplex HA Planning and Assistance	The WW Client Centers High Availability Center of Competency can provide planning and assistance for any number of client projects that center around improving high availability and service management. For example, consulting, review proposals, teach classes or any number of activities to help the client on their path toward higher availability. This can be done at the client location or at an IBM location.
10,000	New System z technology enablement workshop	WW Client Centers Design Centers: This interactive workshop will discover the IT environment and identify opportunities for usinghe speciality engines in a System z environment. It will highlight the pros and cons and prepare the client for reducing cost and better exploiting System z.The venue for this workshop is at an IBM location. (Maximum of 2 days)
15,000	Linux on System z migration discovery/planning workshop	The WW Client Centers Design Centers can provide an interactive workshop that will discover the client environment and identify opportunities for virtualization/consolidation to a Linux on System z environment. It will highlight the pros and cons and prepare the client for exploiting Linux on System z. The venue for this workshop is at an IBM location. (Maximum of 3 days)
15,000	System z Architectural Review	WW Client Centers Design Centers: This review is for clients that have their own architecture design and are seeking a second opinion. This interactive workshop can discover requirements, review design and feedback and options on how to improve their design. (Maximum of 3 days)
15,000	Distributed to System z integration workshop	WW Client Centers Design Centers: This interactive workshop explores and identifies the integration technologies that satisfy client requirements. Pros and cons of different technologies are discussed to enable optimizing the environment for different objectives, like performance, availability, security, functionality. This workshop is typically conducted at an IBM location. (Maximum of 3 days)
20,000	Accelerator! IBM System z Health Assessment	IBM Systems Lab Services and Training can provide a high level infrastructure review of operating systems (z/OS) and sysplex infrastructure.
20,000	Accelerator! z/VM and Linux on IBM System z Health Check	IBM Systems Lab Services and Training review of the customer’s operating systems (z/VM or Linux on System z) and Hypervisor levels to evaluate the basic environment areas--code levels, change management, OS and system security, backup and recovery, system performance, and processes and procedures.
20,000	Accelerator! Performance Environmental Changes Study	After a processor change (e.g. upgrade), STG lab services can conduct a study to demonstrate how system performance has changed between the pre- and post-change environments. This study includes high-level analysis (before and after) of performance data and identifying potential bottlenecks and tuning opportunities
20,000	Accelerator! Hardware Component Failure Impact Analysis	Service to analyze the current IBM installed hardware environment to determine if the environment is configured in such a way that critical single points of failure have been avoided. This analysis can provide recommendations that could lead to reduced outages and downtime
20,000	Accelerator! DFSMShsm Assessment	This service provides a high level analysis of DFSMShsm operations based on actual results from the customer's systems. This will include a review of DFSMShsm configuration options, focusing on exploitation of newer technologies, and provide recommendations for changes to DFSMShsm settings to optimize its use in the customer environment.
20,000	Accelerator! General Maintenance Assessment	This service assesses a current maintenance configuration and strategy. IBM will review the process/procedures for applying maintenance, and provide recommendations to optimize or improve these processes.
20,000	Accelerator! Maintenance Currency Assessment	This service can provide assistance in maintaining maintenance level currency. We will help to research and apply maintenance to IBM products that are identified as down-level.
20,000	Accelerator! DB2 on IBM System z Health Check	A DB2 on System z accelerated health check includes a review of the DB2 subsystem parameters (ZPARM), the current buffer pool strategy and its implementation in the environment for one production DB2 subsystem. Additionally, a review of the backup and recovery processes, DB2 maintenance procedures, as well as the security architecture will be done. The bulk of the work will concentrate on catalog analysis and its relationship to the buffer pool strategy.
20,000	Accelerator! MQSeries on IBM System z Health Check	An MQ on System z Accelerated Health Check includes a review of the WMQ subsystem parameters (ZPARM), the current buffer pool strategy and its implementation in the environment for up to 4 production WMQ subsystems. Additionally, a review of the backup and recovery processes, WMQ maintenance procedures as well the security architecture will be done.
20,000	Accelerator! CICS on IBM System z Health Check	A CICS on System z Accelerated Health Check includes a review of the CICS Subsystem Initialization Table parameters (SIT), Shutdown Statistics, the VSAM Local Shared Resource pool strategy and its implementation in the environment for up to 8 production CICS regions. Additionally, a review of the backup and recovery processes, CICS maintenance procedures as well the security architecture will be done. A performance review of each region will be included.
20,000	Accelerator! Security Architecture and Key Management Review	This service provides technical resources to help with the security architecture and the key management on z/OS, z/VM, and Linux for System z.
20,000	Accelerator! IBM System z SOA Services	This service provides technical resources to review a customer's business infrastructure and provide an architectural SOA review. Gathering of the information needed to deliver an architectural review document tailored specifically for their business.
20,000	Accelerator! Java Performance	This service provides technical resources to help deploy a Java workload or increase the performance of an existing Java workload deployed to System z. The offering will be scoped to meet the needs of the client request.
20,000	System z Availability Assessment	The WW Client Centers High Availability Center of Competency will conduct a High Availability assessment of the client's sysplex environment. This is an interactive 2 day workshop at the client location exploring technology, availability management processes and service management concepts. The follow on deliverable includes a complete report with both tactical and strategic recommendations to improve availability.
20,000	High Level Architectural Design Workshop	WW Client Centers Design Centers: The Design Center will run a Requirements Gathering Session to discover the client environment and understand client requirements and then a Design Workshop to design an infrastructure architecture that satisfies the requirements. Both of these sessions require interactive client participation. This workshop is typically performed at an IBM location. (5 days)
50,000	System z Custom Migration Services	IBM Systems Lab Services and Training can provide up to 160 hours of custom migration services for a customer. These activities can include assistance with migration planning and analysis, hardware and/ or software installation, customization and more.

zRewards and z Rewards Points required to redeem rewards are subject to change without notice and the System z Rewards Program is void where prohibited by law. For more information on the available rewards, click here.

How to get started

Request a conversation with IBM by completing the z Rewards form

* Points rewarded per core are subject to change without notice

All performance information was determined in a controlled environment. Actual results may vary. Performance information is provided “AS IS” and no warranties or guarantees are expressed or implied by IBM.

¹ Comparison is versus x86 Blade servers without virtualization, reflecting a current-day consolidation. Reductions will vary by the number and age of the x86 servers being consolidated.

2 Gartner WW Server Tracker Results 4Q’08

3 Source: IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker high end +$250K servers quarterly tracker results from 3Q'00 to 4Q'08

4 source: top WW Banks as identified by the Fortune Global 500 in 2006

5 source: top U.S. Retailers as identified by National Retail Federation

6 Source: IBM internal MIPS inventory numbers comparing 1H07 installed capacity vs. 1H08 installed capacity.

7 Ratio of z10 EC processor cores to x86 and UNIX processor cores will vary depending on the age and speed of the processors and the workloads being run on them

8 certain models of z10BC will not be eligible. IFLs (FC 6650) are not eligible for z Rewards on the following machine type / models or on upgrades from 2086 or 2096 to these 7 models: