The goal
Avoid project delays and cost overruns during virtualization
Virtualization has become a cornerstone, a base requirement, for moving to a dynamic infrastructure. However, deploying virtualization can be a challenging task and organizations can experience problems of project delays and cost overruns. By leveraging the services of a virtualization service provider, organizations can substantially reduce the risk associated with the implementation and also ensure your virtualization environment is optimized for maximum efficiency.
The advantage
Expertise from strategy and planning to implementation and migration
IBM has a long history enabling virtualization technology and can assist organizations with all aspects of virtualization from strategy and planning to implementation and migration. IBM views virtualization as one of the key elements of dynamic infrastructure strategy. Virtualization services from IBM draw on a center of competency – highly skilled IBM professionals whose focus is developing and executing consolidation and virtualization best practices.
The benefits
Combination of competence and affordability
Leveraging both on and off-site resources, IBM provides a compelling combination of competence and affordability. The services use a ‘best of breed’ consolidation methodology crafted through IBM’s extensive experience in designing and managing virtualized environments.. This ensures consistency across the globe and provides access to IBM’s experts and leading practices.
Learn more
IBM can assist organizations with all aspects of virtualization from strategy and planning to implementation and migration to ongoing management and maintenance. For more information:
Planning and Design
- Server Optimization and Integration Services - Server Consolidation Efficiency Study
- IBM IT Transformation and Optimization Consulting Services — infrastructure strategy and planning
- IBM IT Transformation and Optimization Consulting Services — IT optimization solution framing
- IBM Storage Optimization and Integration services
- Networking Strategy and Optimization for consolidation and virtualization
Implementation and migration
- Server Optimization and Integration Services - VMware server virtualization
- Server Optimization and Integration Services - Server Consolidation
- Implementation Services for System x - ServicePac for VMware
- Implementation Services for System x - ServicePac for IBM Director
- IBM Virtual Infrastructure Access Services helps transform your distributed IT architectures
- IBM Implementation Services fof Power Systems™ - PowerVM™
- Implementation Services for storage products
- IBM Server Managed Services
- IBM Scale Out File Services
- Data Mobility services
- Network Integration Services for data center networks - consolidation and virtualization
- Network Integration Services for data center networks-data and storage network convergence
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