IBM announced enhancements to its Migration Factory program that help customers on competing platforms migrate to IBM systems. IBM says it had 2,400 competitive displacements in 2011.
In an
aggressive move against its key competition, IBM announced new resources to
help customers migrate from competing hardware platforms while also claiming
Big Blue recorded nearly 2,400 competitive displacements in 2011 for its
servers and storage systems.
IBM said
nearly 40 percent of the 2,400 displacements came from HP and more than 25
percent came from Oracle/Sun. In addition, IBM said it gained 570 competitive
displacements in the fourth quarter of 2011.
Meanwhile, IBM
also announced new initiatives for its Migration Factory to continue helping
clients quickly and securely migrate core applications and databases to a new
IBM-based environment. New resources include workshops to facilitate the
transition from competing servers to IBM systems, and migration to a cloud
computing solution built on Power Systems. In addition, customers who want to
migrate from HP or Oracle/Sun technologies to a Power Systems-based
infrastructure are now eligible for new funding services for the migration
process.
IBM also
announced a zero-percent financing offer involving two key IBM systems
families: IBM Power Systems and IBM System Storage. Available through March 31,
2012, the 12-month full pay-out lease allows clients in the United States and
Canada to finance between $5,000 and $1 million in Power Systems and/or System
Storage technologies. More information about Fast Start Financing is
available
here.
Over the past
five years, the IBM Migration Factory has helped complete more than 7,200
competitive migrations, IBM officials said. The new services in the migration
initiative include a Workload Discovery Workshop, which is a first step in the
server-transition planning process. This workshop is used to gain a general
understanding of the computing workloads targeted for transition, including
function, operating environment, software components and dependencies.
Workshops can typically be completed within one day. Upon completion, IBM
delivers a workload summary and recommended next steps for transition to an IBM
solution.
IBM also now
offers a "Migrating to a Power Cloud Workshop," which defines an
approach to a cloud computing transformation. This workshop focuses on client
and IBM strengths to guide the migration approach, budget, time and risk of
deploying a private cloud using IBM Power Systems. Workshop components include
inventory verification, transformation planning and design, implementation and
testing.
In addition,
IBM offers Post-Sales Migration Factory Funding. Customers who want to migrate
from HP or Oracle/Sun technologies to a Power Systems-based infrastructure are
now eligible for funding assistance for the costs of Post-Sales Migration
Factory services in addition to previously offered pre-sales migration
assessment funding. Post-sales migration services include consulting, workshops
and training services from the IBM Migration Factory, which help clients avoid
any migration risks.
IBM officials
said companies around the world are grappling with the rising challenges of
exponentially larger data volumes, server sprawl, increasingly complex
infrastructures and flat budgets. Smarter Computing, the core of the IBM
Smarter Planet effort, brings companies increased intelligence and lower costs
through the use of optimized systems and analytics managed with cloud
technologies. As a result, companies can start reducing their data center
footprints and management costs, increasing system performance and overall
efficiencies, and freeing up more of their IT budgets to invest in innovation,
IBM said.
For more
information about the IBM Migration Factory
click here.
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