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IBM Global Services (IGS) offers a comprehensive services portfolio to support your Linux on System z (z9, zSeries, S/390) deployment, migration or implementation. The following services are available for Linux on System z, please ask your local IBM representative for more details.
Services for IBM System z
Linux for System z Consolidation
STG Lab Services can assist you with your server consolidation needs. This offering will assess your environment as desired and create a project plan to consolidate your servers to a Linux on System z architecture as appropriate.
Linux Support of ISVs
The objective of this offering is to assist with a move of ISV software to Linux on z. This assistance could be in the form of application porting help or system readiness and tuning once the ISV's software is installed.
Linux and VM Performance Assessment
This offering exists to help you assess your VM and Linux on system z environment. We'll perform a snapshot review to help you evaluate best practices. We than then suggest VM, Linux, Java and/or middleware performance tuning actions, and even assist in performing the tuning.
Middleware and Storage Services for Linux on System z
Linux on System z can have some unique middleware challenges. These challenges can be in the form of choosing the right architecture, utilizing specialty engines, etc. We'll customize our assistance to offer you any help we can.
WebSphere and Portal Services for Linux on System z
The objective of this offering is to help you install, tune and deploy on WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Portal. As with all our offerings, we can customize this offering to help with specific WebSphere and Portal issues or even broaden our support to an end to end Linux consolidation architecture and implementation.
Application Deployment and Optimization
The objective of this offering is to help you better deploy and tune your WebSphere applications, migrating these applications to a production environment.
WebSphere for z/OS (and Linux) Security Design Workshop
The objective of this offering is to help you better understand security options available to you with WebSphere for z/OS and Linux on System z.
Base System z Security Design Workshop
The objective of this offering is to help you better understand security options available to you in each environment.
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IBM Technology Assessment and Consulting services
Linux strategy workshop
IBM Global Services has developed a unique, compact workshop that's customized just for your company. At the end, you'll walk away with a high-level strategy for incorporating Linux that's based on your IT environment, your business issues, your budget requirements.
IBM Migration services
Consolidate file/print and Web-serving workloads to Linux on System z
This service helps customers to consolidate workloads from distributed server farms by providing an assessment of which workloads can be consolidated onto Linux on System z, and then completing the consolidation for them.
Migrate and consolidate UNIX applications on Linux
Consolidate multiple UNIX servers under one operating environment, thereby helping to decrease TCO and increasing application availability, while simplifying systems management tools and skill requirements.
IBM Implementation services
IBM Implementation Services for Linux Distributions
Installation, configuration and testing of the Linux enterprise operating system distributions on your servers so that they are ready to run your business applications.
IBM Hosting services
Virtual Hosting - Linux virtual services
With Linux virtual services, you can tap into managed server capacity on an System z running Linux, without the upfront expense of buying the physical hardware.
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