Why Migrate to IBM

Hellp world. Hello future of IT. Moving to a dynamic infrastructure improves efficiency now and sets your business on the right path towards the future.

Transform your business with an experienced partner
Don’t hinder your business’ potential with an outdated infrastructure any longer. IBM has the skills and technology to help you plan, implement and maintain your infrastructure, and can do so on a budget you can trust. By taking a comprehensive view of IT operations, IBM can help you transform your IT infrastructure into an agile operation to help you meet your strategic goals now and in the future.

IBM® Systems offer industry-leading performance, virtualization and energy efficiency. And these systems have a track record — protecting investments in applications, skills and technology resources. IBM’s commitment to technology innovation is legendary, leading the number of IT patents granted for over 14 years. Only IBM can offer innovations today that give you the confidence and flexibility to select the platform that best suits your business requirements now and in the future. And IBM provides a team of experts who have over 25 years of know-how in seamlessly moving customers to IBM systems.

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Choice

Flexibility for today and tomorrow
No one-size-fits-all system can adequately meet the varied needs of today's businesses. IBM offers a range of systems that give you the choice of technology, performance, scalability, operating system and more so you have the flexibility to meet the needs of your business. Learn more

IBM industry leadership gives our clients access to the latest technology. For the past four decades, our core processor and operating systems have maintained a track record of leadership. IBM has been one of the world's leading 'chip foundries' with an unrivaled investment in research and development — a heritage on which we continue to build.

Support

Our team will back you up
Often, companies want to migrate but do not know where to start. With IBM and its Business partners, businesses gain access to a highly trained team that can assess the current situation, discuss key business objectives and develop a solution customized to the client's needs that includes implementation and continued support. Read on to learn more.

IBM Executive Briefing Centers: in-depth technology briefings, product demonstrations and solution workshops for clients wanting product expertise and assistance with the design and implementation of migration plans. Learn more.

IBM Design Centers: design and validate first-of-a-kind integration and deployment of innovative technologies such as grid, virtualization, SOA, advanced security, high availability and solution integration in preparation for migration. Learn more.

IBM Benchmark Centers: hands-on facilities where IBM Systems professionals partner with clients to meet their migration goals by assisting in the demonstration and validation of the functional capabilities in a lab environment. Learn more.

IBM System Storage Data Migration Services: intelligent storage virtualization solutions and expertise to assist the hardware and simplify the task of migrating data from one array to another. Learn more.

IBM Migration Factory: provides an innovative and integrated approach to migration that can enable true global delivery by helping plan and perform a migration based on our depth and breadth of resources. Learn more.

Expertise

Tried and true
IBM provides comprehensive data center migration assessments that can be the basis of a prudent and pragmatic plan to transform your infrastructure into an effective platform for success now and in the years to come.

Recognizing that every data center migration project is different, IBM follows a five-step methodology designed to accommodate each client's particular requirements:

Assessment and planning: to begin each engagement, IBM professionals examine the key infrastructure elements, databases, ISV applications and custom code to determine the testing requirements, select the appropriate methodology and prepare a detailed project plan.
Migration: baseline building and testing, user acceptance testing and application deployment can be completed in IBM facilities worldwide, at the client's location or in a combination of locations.
Testing: databases and applications are subjected to several mock migrations before going live in the production environment to help mitigate risk. Custom applications are rebuilt and tested rigorously.
Performance and tuning: prior to deployment, IBM professionals work with clients to optimize their applications for the new IBM environment.
Training and deployment: after the new platforms are in place and proper operation has been verified — but before deployment to production — systems administrators and application developers receive training on the new environment.

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