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When you're ready to migrate, it's smart to go with a leader. IBM expertise and leading product portfolio take the sting out of migrating from your current platform. Let us help you make the move.

Migrate from HP

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HP Integrity Entry (rx2660, rx3600, rx6600) HP Integrity Midrange (rx7640, rx8640)	IBM BladeCenter PS701 Express, IBM Power 710 Express and Power 730 Express IBM BladeCenter PS703 Express, IBM Power 740 Express and Power 750 Express
Migration benefits: Improved performance and space utilization Improved utilization and lower cost per/VM Energy savings Deliver outstanding performance and choice Offer higher levels of energy efficiency and utilization Reduce infrastructure costs
HP Superdome	IBM Power 770, Power 780 or Power 795
Migration benefits: Reduction of software costs, dependable performance, flexible configurations and high availability Virtualization technologies that enable higher utilization, lower costs, faster provisioning, and dynamic, autonomous response to changing business demands Published, credible roadmaps for the future that eliminate technology migrations while supporting technological innovation, performance improvement and virtualization exploitation
Reduce business risk, migrate to POWER7 and deliver services with higher quality

Migrate from Oracle / Sun

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Sun Fire v125-440, v490-890 SPARC Enterprise T5xxx Sun Fire E4900 and E6900 SPARC Enterprise M4000, M5000	IBM BladeCenter PS700, PS701, PS702 or PS703 Express, IBM Power 710 Express and Power 730 Express IBM BladeCenter PS703 Express, IBM Power 740 Express and Power 750 Express
Migration benefits: Improved performance and space utilization Improved utilization and lower cost per/VM Energy savings Deliver outstanding performance and choice Offer higher levels of energy efficiency and utilization Reduce infrastructure costs
Sun SPARC Enterprise E10K-25K Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 and M9000	IBM Power 750 Express IBM Power 770, Power 780 or Power 795
Migration benefits: Reduction of software costs, dependable performance, flexible configurations and high availability Virtualization technologies that enable higher utilization, lower costs, faster provisioning, and dynamic, autonomous response to changing business demands Published, credible roadmaps for the future that eliminate technology migrations while supporting technological innovation, performance improvement and virtualization exploitation
Power Systems give you 3x per core performance versus Oracle/Sun

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Elisabeth Stahl

Chief Technical Strategist, Performance Marketing

Elisabeth Stahl is Chief Technical Strategist, Performance Marketing for the IBM Systems and Technology Group and has been working in systems performance for over 25 years.

Elisabeth's blog - benchmarkingblog

This blog is for the open exchange of ideas relating to systems performance and benchmarking. You can also find her on the IBM developerWorks blog - Benchmarking and systems performance