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IBM Launches Blade Migration Center

IBM has announced the development of a Blade Migration Centre. 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 USD 1,000 incentive to make the switch.

Migration services will include:

Assessment of current state and existing processes
Requirement specification and future state definition
Solution definition, architecture, and roadmap design
Preparation and planning
Skills transfer and training on best practices
Implementation and integration assistance

Migration consultants will have access to the IBM Consolidation Discovery and Analysis Tool (CDAT), software that recognises untapped utilisation and hidden servers across clients' networks and helps identify opportunities to consolidate and virtualise systems.
Key areas of focus for the Blade Migration Centre include, but are not limited to:

System Migration
Virtualisation
Data Centre Cooling
High-Speed Networking

IBM has shipped over half a million BladeCenter systems since the product's inception in 2002. According to data from industry analyst firm Gartner, IBM retained its lead as the number one blade server vendor in the world garnering 42.8 percent revenue share in the second quarter 2006, 13 percent better than its closest competitor.


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