NEWS - An Article - IBM wants to sell you Less

Great CNET article around IBM's announcement happening next week in Toronto. The article details the major items of the announcement which you can come out in person to hear and enjoy for a few hours with IBM on Monday. If your too busy or not in Toronto you can join the WEB Conference that is also running on Monday March 30th at the same time as the live event.

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In fact, next week IBM will debut its own server redesign based on Intel's Xeon 5500 Series. The new line is being touted by IBM for its ability to help reduce management costs and overall energy use. Take it with a requisite grain of salt, but IBM is positioning the announcement as its most comprehensive x86 upgrade in years.

CNET ARTICLE

NEWS - IBM unleashes updates for DS8000, XIV, reduplication and cloud

Some interesting news from IBM. Tech Data cannot sell all of the product listed, it does show IBM investing and expanding their market reach around Storage.

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IBM UNLEASHES UPDATES FOR DS8000, XIV, DEDUPLICATION AND CLOUD

http://go.techtarget.com/r/5820982/5343096

Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer

IBM Corp. has floated a raft of product updates to coincide with its Pulse 2009 conference held this week in Las Vegas, where it also unveiled a new cloud computing strategy.

Storage product updates include adding support for SATA, solid-state drives (SSDs) and drive encryption on the DS8000 disk array; new ProtecTier data deduplication appliances; a 27 TB entry-level configuration for the XIV Storage System; and a preview of a new online backup option for Tivoli.

Read full story

http://go.techtarget.com/r/5820983/5343096

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Come and learn about all the tools and programs that can help you sell more IBM and make more money doing it.

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Agenda

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NEWS - Blade S with NORTAL Switching

MORE BLADE S Information – Might want to register for this monthly news letter to keep informed on the Networking side of IBM Blade centers.

This October is IBM's BladeCenter S Celebration! This product will likely receive even more attention and excitement with some of its recent additional capabilities around shared storage and redundant Ethernet, plus the great portfolio of blades (Intel, AMD & Power). As you go out and start sharing this wonderful news with your clients I would like to remind you that integrated switches provide exceptional value and the BLADE Network Technologies portfolio of Nortel switches give you significant advantages:

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NEWS - Virtualization move: IBM adds SAN to blade server chassis

"The change makes it easier to work with existing smaller customers who want to use blade servers as part of their virtual server infrastructure, as well as to target a broader base of potential customers" - from CRN Canada - Read entire document.


Great article showing the importance of the NEW SAS module that is shipping for the Blade Center S in October.

The IBM BladeCenter S SAS RAID Controller Module integrates SAS switching and RAID controller function in a legacy switch form factor.

IBM BladeCenter S SAS RAID Controller Module (43W3584)

View the story on CRN Canada.