IBM Launches Blade Migration Center; Offers HP Customers $1,000 to Migrate to Industry-Leading IBM BladeCenter Platform

IBM Launches Blade Migration Center; Offers HP Customers $1,000 to Migrate to Industry-Leading IBM BladeCenter Platform

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the development of a Blade Migration Center aimed at helping clients escape the complexity of multiple incompatible architectures by migrating to a smarter IT platform, IBM BladeCenter. The program is backed by a global team of more than 300 consultants and technologists to help make it easy for clients to consolidate workloads onto the slim IT footprint of the blade server platform. IBM will also offer existing HP blade clients a US$1,000 incentive to make the switch.

“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 datacenter infrastructure, reduce costs and improve business efficiency,” said Doug Balog, vice president and business line executive, IBM BladeCenter. “While HP has introduced three generations of blades with no backward compatibility, IBM has offered clients a consistent approach and superior design innovation for the world’s fastest growing server platform and the industry’s leading blade platform, IBM BladeCenter.”

The IBM Blade Migration Center will help clients consolidate, migrate and virtualize their IT infrastructures on IBM BladeCenter with both free and fee-based migration services to help speed and simplify the process for clients to avoid network downtime. IBM will also collaborate with IBM Business Partners to aid in their data migration services for clients, and provide easy access to key IBM technologies and a team of industry partners with solutions to address common areas of concern in datacenter re-design and migration, including virtualization, datacenter cooling, and high-speed networking.

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