You may know that convenient, scalable blade servers are a fast-growing segment of the storage industry. But did you know that not all blade servers are created equal? IBM BladeCenter® servers have been the leader in the blade server business - with number-one share for eleven consecutive quarters! *
At IBM, we want you to find ways to experience the power and innovation of our servers. That is why we created the Blade Migration Center. It is geared to helping clients of other server vendors upgrade from architectures that are often outdated, unintegrated and complex, by migrating to the industry's leading blade platform: IBM BladeCenter.
“With the Blade Migration Center we've armed a global team of consultants with key tools, and collaborated with industry-leading technology vendors, to help clients easily migrate to blade servers to help simplify their data center infrastructure, reduce costs and improve business efficiency.“ — Doug Balog, IBM Systems & Technology Group, System x vice president and BladeCenter business line executive
The IBM Blade Migration Center offers tools and services to help clients consolidate, migrate and virtualize their IT infrastructures on IBM BladeCenter servers. These free and fee-based migration services help to simplify and accelerate the migration process, and to minimize downtime. IBM can help you with your data migration and provide easy access to key IBM resources, as well as technologies from our team of industry partners. With all of these resources and capabilities, IBM can provide solutions to address many of the common concerns about migration and data center re-design. IBM Blade Migration Center offerings include:
- Migration methodologies, consulting and implementation assistance.
- IBM BladeCenter education.
- Financial incentives.
- Technical and marketing collateral.
- The availability of leading-edge IBM and IBM Business Partner technologies.
- Leading-edge technologies from IBM and our Business Partners.
System migration: With PlateSpin PowerConvert, you can complete physical and virtual migration projects faster - potentially in a matter of hours instead of days or weeks!
Data center cooling: IBM has teamed with Innovative Research, Inc. to provide you with access to the TileFlow computer simulation tool that helps predict the cooling performance of a data center.
High-speed networking: Switches developed by Cisco Systems for the IBM Blade Center can significantly reduce cabling compared with that of rack solutions, simplifying data center deployment time and helping reduce cost and potential outages.
System Virtualization: Cisco VFrame Server Fabric Virtualization Software helps dynamically change how a server is provisioned and enables rapid service deployment.
Storage Virtualization: The IBM SAN Volume Controller helps you to manage heterogeneous storage as a business resource by combining IBM and non-IBM storage capacity into a single managed storage pool for speed and quality.
For more information about migrating to IBM BladeCenter, please complete the Blade Migration Center form.
* Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, May 2006
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