Technology upgrades from IBM

Optimize your data center and IT infrastructure with the latest energy efficient, scalable products and solutions from IBM. Our technology upgrades can help improve efficiency in your business or organization.

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Looking for an upgrade for your Thinkpad or IBM personal computer? Visit the Lenovo Accessories and upgrades page (link resides outside of ibm.com).

Celebrate all you can do with BladeCenter® S — the all-in-one server, storage and networking solution for small offices, branch offices, retail stores, and growing enterprises who need high-end data center capabilities without the high price and space requirements.

Benefits:

• BladeCenter S offers a wide range of networking options, easy system management, and the ability to build a fully redundant, fully integrated SAN storage solution.
• Both servers and storage can be virtualized to maximize efficiency without the need for dedicated IT staff.
• Using the simple, out-of-the-box IBM BladeCenter Start Now Advisor, setting up servers, storage, and networking is much easier than any competitive rack or tower solution.
• The optional Office Enablement Kit for BladeCenter S provides easy access to chassis components, ensures data security through front and rear locking doors, and comes with an acoustical module that keeps the system quiet enough for the office environment.
• The Office Enablement Kit includes 4U of additional space besides the BladeCenter S chassis to leave room for storage, KVM, and future growth.
• Redundant power, cooling, and switching to ensure your IT does not go down.

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Upgrade from single- and dual-core servers to the BladeCenter® LS42 and LS22 blade servers with AMD six-core technology.

Benefits:

• Gain up to 30% faster performance with six-core AMD Opteron processors vs quad-core AMD Opteron processors.
• LS42 is a scalable SMP blade ideal for high performance computing, virtualization, consolidation and database applications.
• LS22 is a high performance computing blade ideal for memory-intensive applications including research, modeling and simulation.
• Both the BladeCenter LS42 and LS22 blade server use low power DDR II memory and feature efficient designs to improve energy usage.

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Blue Blade Bundle

Special pricing, services and financing on IBM BladeCenter solutions.

Upgrade from previous generation Intel processor-based blade servers to the new generation BladeCenter HS22 blade server and leverage a versatile, easy-to-use blade server optimized for performance, power, and cooling.

Benefits:

• Process business-critical applications up to twice as fast as the previous generation, at half the cost, and a third less management cost over current technology.
• Choice of hot-swap drives including SAS, SATA, boot SSD and performance SSD enables you to tailor internal storage to match your specific capacity, performance, cost, and reliability needs.
• Achieve as high as 11:1 consolidation ratio by migrating older rack and blade servers onto HS22 blades, while saving over 90% in energy costs alone.
• Full compatibility with all BladeCenter enterprise and office chassis protects the investments you have already made in IBM BladeCenter.

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IBM BladeCenter® Open Fabric is an integrated server I/O portfolio providing a comprehensive set of interconnects and smart management tools to help run your business.

Benefits:

• IBM BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager helps simplify the complexity that comes with growth by making it easy to manage I/O and network interconnects for up to 100 BladeCenter chassis — up to 1400 blade servers.
• New SAS switch modules offer affordable, yet powerful 3 Gbps SAN Storage for your BladeCenter systems.
• Get double throughput with new QLogic® 8Gb Fibre Channel switch modules.
• Broadcom 2-port and 4-port 10Gb Ethernet Expansion Card enables up to 4 High Speed bays in BladeCenter H for end-to-end 10Gb I/O Virtualization using BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager.

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The IBM i Edition Express for BladeCenter® S is an attractive upgrade for existing AS/400®, iSeries® and System i™ 515, 520, and 525 clients looking to reduce IT costs and complexity by consolidating their IBM i and Windows® applications with an IBM BladeCenter solution.

Benefits:

• A predefined configuration combining a JS12 blade, IBM i, and BladeCenter S chassis.
• Cut costs and consolidate workloads with leadership IBM PowerVM™ virtualization as a built-in feature.
• Support business critical applications with IBM i -- a trusted combination of relational database, security, Web services, networking and storage management capabilities.
• Configuration easily upgraded with additional blades or options.
• Starting price below a Power 520 Express one core configuration with i.

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Built on the promise of the IBM BladeCenter® family of products–easy-to-use, integrated platforms with a high degree of deployment flexibility, energy efficiency, scalability and manageability–the BladeCenter JS12, JS22, JS23 and JS43 Express are the premier blades for 64-bit applications. They represent one of the most flexible and cost-efficient solutions for UNIX®, i and Linux deployments available in the market.

Benefits:

• Ideal for infrastructure consolidation, virtualization, and demanding applications that require scalable performance and high memory capacity.
• IBM POWER6™ processor technology and the ability to run AIX®, IBM i, and Linux® operating systems simultaneously.
• Elegantly simple scalability, allowing easy expansion and pay-as-you-grow flexibility for the utmost in investment protection and performance growth.
• A secure, resilient and dynamic infrastructure solution that helps drive cost down, reduces risk, improves energy efficiency, and enhances flexibility.

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Upgrade from POWER5 or POWER6 based 570 systems (System p, System i, or Power Systems) and leverage the capabilities of POWER6 based 570 systems.

Benefits:

• Improved performance per system and per core.
• Optimized energy consumption and reduced associated costs.
• Improved virtualization capabilities and optimized resource utilization with lower operational expenses.
• Improved system availability without disrupting application availability.
• Optimized software costs.

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Upgrade from POWER5 System p or System i servers to IBM's Power 520, 550, and 560 and leverage the advantages of POWER6™.

Benefits:

• Better performance than POWER5+ Express servers.
• Better price-performance than POWER5+ Express servers.
• Better performance per watt than POWER5+ entry servers.
• Increased memory capacity and memory per core for higher system utilization.

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Power Systems trade-in program

Reduce cost and improve service when you trade up to POWER6.

Leverage the benefits of IBM POWER6™ processors. Power 595 server provides scalability, performance, and flexibility to seamlessly address the changing needs of business and IT infrastructure.

Benefits:

• Increase application performance with ultra-high frequency POWER6 processors up to 5.00 GHz.
• Reduce cost by consolidating energy-wasting, under-utilized servers, and improve work-per-watt with industry-leading scalability.
• Optimize IT efficiency with PowerVM virtualization, supporting AIX, IBM i and Linux applications.
• Deliver the highest levels of Power Architecture reliability, availability & serviceability for improved infrastructure resilience.

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IBM i 6.1 is the latest release of IBM's integrated operating environment for Power Systems.

Benefits:

• New support for BladeCenter providing a foundation for a dynamic infrastructure.
• New SAN DS8000 performance optimization for enterprise clients consolidating their storage across multiple systems.
• New PowerHA disk clustering, providing a new option from IBM for high availability and disaster recovery solutions.
• New Java Virtual Machine, shared with AIX & Linux, offering significantly improved Java and WebSphere performance.
• New PowerVM virtual storage for i partitions reducing costs and improving flexibility for test and development partitions.
• New Systems Director Navigator for advanced web based systems management.

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Introducing AIX 6.1 on POWER6TM, the next generation of IBM's UNIX operating system.

Benefits:

• Open standards UNIX OS supports previous versions of AIX OS and POWER processors.
• The new AIX OS brings the power of virtualization and the ability to relocate applications without re-starting the application, which leads to superior performance, increases system utilization, eases administration and provides for new security features.
• Simplifies consolidation of multiple workloads helping to reduce administrative costs.

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Upgrade to DS5000 and experience robust storage management which delivers increased performance with reliability, useful for DS4000 install customers.

Benefits:

• New seventh-generation architecture with balanced mixed workload performance for increased application performance.
• Trusted storage that protects and delivers your data when needed - 24x7x365New 64 Gb cache, iSCSI host ports, and SSD for performance and low cost connectivity.
• Efficient storage utilization and modular-design avoids over configuration, reducing purchase and operational IT costs.
• Multidimensional scalability enables lifecycle longevity, which provides performance, reliability, and robust storage management.
• More responsiveness to transactional and throughput intensive applications, increasing productivity and compliance to SLA needs of your business.

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The new DS8700 model offers up to over 2.5x performance boost, while preserving the outstanding reliability and investment protection DS8000 clients have come to expect from IBM.

Benefits:

• New IBM POWER6 processor complexes and PCI-Express internal interconnects offer over 2.5x performance improvement over prior DS8000 models
• The DS8700 offers a tremendous leap in performance while preserving the superior system reliability of its predecessor by re-using over 90% of existing microcode
• New security enhancements help address Payment Card Industy Data Security Standards (PCI-DSS) compliance requirements.

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Save on DS8000 bundles for System i

Get discounts of 60% or more off selected hardware bundles.

Up-sell and retain LE existing VTS installed base and System z customers.

Benefits:

• Reduces downtime and helps in accelerating backups and recalls.
• Optimizes performance, reduces resource requirements, supports data availability, and business continuity.

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Upgrade 3592 and earlier generation LTO drives with TS1130/TS1120/LTO Gen 4.

Benefits:

• TS1130/TS1120 and LTO 4 drives allows secure data sharing with partners, suppliers, and remote locations.
• Supports increasing regulatory requirements for security of data (compliance).
• Improves encryption and disaster recovery (DR) performance.
• Reduces risk and potential business impacts caused by loss or theft of removable data.
• Reduces complexity and improves processes to ensure reliability and availability.

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The System z10™ BC brings the value and innovation of the System z™ platform to a broader set of enterprises. It now has a design for expanded workloads and management of a Business Intelligence workload across a set of integrated, workload-optimized heterogeneous technologies. System z10 BC is the smart choice for connecting to data, managing risk, improving service and reducing costs. z Can Do IT.

Benefits:

• The System z10 BC, the System z BladeCenter Extension and the IBM Smart Analytics Optimizer for DB2 for z/OS, V1.1 offer an integrated and workload-optimized technology that helps to provide fast, predictable query response times on unpredictable workloads.
• New and innovative features for advanced security, resiliency, virtualization, and connectivity.
• A broad set of specialty engines facilitate integration of many types of workloads, for both new applications and existing workloads on a single attractively priced footprint.
• Delivers extensive but granular growth options with excellent price/performance.
• Higher system utilization levels and unique “shared everything” virtualization capabilities deliver unmatched resource utilization and efficiency.

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Combining the strengths of the z10™ EC with the new IBM System z BladeCenter Extension (zBX) and evolutionary IBM Smart Analytics Optimizer, IBM delivers a unique first-of-its kind integrated solution that extends System z qualities of service and management across a set of integrated, workload-optimized heterogeneous technologies.

Benefits:

• The System z10 EC, the System z BladeCenter Extension and the IBM Smart Analytics Optimizer for DB2 for z/OS, V1.1 offer an integrated and workload-optimized technology that helps to provide fast, predictable query response times on unpredictable workloads.
• The new Crypto Express3 can be configured as a secure key coprocessor or an accelerator, which raises the bar in error checking of cryptographic operations and helps ensure availability by support of concurrent patch and driver updates.
• Improved Capacity for Planned Events options to allow selection of the capacity to meet business needs rather than providing a fixed pre-planning setting.
• New tracing capability for Linux on System z to assist in problem isolation for network traffic.
• A broad set of specialty engines facilitates integration of many types of workloads, delivering excellent economics for your business.

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Introducing IBM z/OS Version 1 Release 11, the next generation of IBM's premiere mainframe operating system.

Benefits:

• Efficient – new user interface helps system programmers to more easily manage and administer a mainframe system.
• Trusted - the latest encryption technologies, centralized security certificates, and foundation for unified enterprise-wide identity and access management reduce risk of fraud.
• Smart - a system that learns heuristically from its own environment and is able to anticipate and report on potential issues for predictive analysis.
• Responsive - communications that improve network recoverability, availability, and reduce complexity and latency of transactions.
• Accountable - enhanced measurement to support comprehensive control, analysis, risk management, audit, and compliance plans.
• Synergies - with new IBM System Storage DS8000 to make the most of your information asset.

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Upgrading to the latest version of z/VM V6.1 allows z/VM to take advantage of System z10 technology for current and future exploitation.

Benefits:

• Exploitation of System z10 cache prefetch capabilities to help improve the performance of virtual networking especially in environments running heavy guest-to-guest streaming workloads.
• Simplified installation of IBM Systems Director by providing the z/VM Manageability Access Point (zMAP) Agent that includes the Platform Agent.
• Enhancements planned for delivery in the IBM service stream by year-end 2009:
  • Guest support for Crypto Express3, the newest in a line of state-of-the-art, tamper-sensing and tamper responding, programmable cryptographic features of the System z10 servers.
  • Guest support for IBM System Storage DS8000 Extended Address Volumes (EAVs), which can be as large as 223 GB, help relieve storage constraints as well as simplify storage management by providing the ability to manage fewer, large volumes as opposed to many small volumes.

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The newest version of z/VSE will provide more capacity for future growth. z/VSE V4.3 is designed to offer virtual storage constraint relief for CICS workload growth and system consolidation.

Benefits:

• Offers CICS workload growth and system consolidation through virtual storage constraint relief.
• Will exploit selected IBM System z10 technology, including large page support, FICON Express8, and the ability to dynamically add logical CPs without preplanning.
• Four-digit device addresses provide for infrastructure simplification in mixed IT environments consisting of z/VSE, z/VM, Linux on System z, and/or z/OS.
• Further enhancements apply to networking, security, and systems management, as well as RPG II compiler support for CICS TS.
• A statement of direction* announces that z/VSE V4.3 intends to provide an IPv6 solution.
• All statements regarding IBM's plans, directions, and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice.

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