Technology News and Product Updates
Learn how two IBM partners, OmniScience and Ricoh USA, are helping clients move critical workloads to the cloud.
- Ricoh USA unites with IBM to move insurance giant’s workloads to IBM Power Virtual Server in the cloud. Read the article.
- OmniScience helped Kosei Securities move their on-premises IBMi instances to IBMi running on Power Virtual Server instances on the IBM Cloud. Read and share the article.
4th Gen Intel® Xeon® processors on IBM Cloud Virtual Servers VPC is live. Customers can now provision one of the industry’s newest microarchitectures inside their virtual private cloud and gain access to a host of core compute enhancements, including more memory per vCPU than ever available on IBM Cloud. Read and share the announcement.
Acceleration roadmap strategy update for IBM Power Virtual Server. Click here for more information about the recent announcements, upcoming releases, and existing promotions to take advantage of through Dec 2023. Learn how a premier IBM partner helped client PFG showcase the success of running Production, DR, and Dev/Test IBM i workloads in a Virtual Server with GRS for DR.
New SmartNIC brings exciting changes to IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers VPC.
The industry’s newest SmartNIC has landed on IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers for VPC, and with it are hardware and firmware upgrades for improved networking, storage and security across general-purpose, high-performance and VMware workloads. Read the blog announcement.
IBM Cloud Databases version End-of-Life announcement
IBM Cloud Databases is announcing the end of life on the IBM Cloud Databases for MySQL v5.7, IBM Cloud Databases for Elasticsearch v7.17, IBM Cloud Databases for MongoDB v4.4; IBM Cloud Databases for Redis v5.0, and IBM Cloud Databases for etcd v3.3 on April 26, 2024. Read the announcement.
Marketing Resources
Get access to the new IBM Power Virtual Server Partner Marketing Kit and activate client conversation on Hybrid Cloud Migration and Modernization with four embedded campaigns for prospecting and progressing deals with clients.
Read the new Analyst whitepaper - The Evolution of HPC Includes Strong Use of Hybrid Cloud, to learn about the IBM Cloud HPC approach and benefits of hybrid HPC cloud services.
Promotions
IBM Power Virtual Server promotion and incentives include Business Partner Rewards, Free Trial, Public Promotion and Build Funds. Click here for more information or contact Eapen Valakuzhy at eapen.valakuzhy.eapen@ibm.com.
Learn more about the PowerVS Migration Acceleration Program here and learn how IBM co-invest and partner with the client providing, expertise, incentives, methodology, tools and best practices.
VPC1000 promo code for USD 1000 in credits. Consume USD 1000 credits against Bare Metal for VPC or any of these VPC resources, including Block Storage for VPC, Virtual Server for VPC, Load Balancer for VPC, and Virtual Private Cloud. Expires Dec 31 2023, or until supplies last.
IBM Cloud Sales Promos and POC
Take advantage of sales promos and POC with skilled service teams to close deals faster for Red Hat OpenShift, IBM Cloud Satellite, VMWare, Power and SAP.
Click here for more information or contact Eapen Valakuzhy at eapen.valakuzhy.eapen@ibm.com.
IBM Cloud free tier includes a free IBM Cloud® Account, 40+ always-free products and USD 200 credit. Click here for more information.
Marketing Events
Nov 1: Microsoft 365 Back-up as a Service Webinar | Registration Link
Nov 6 – 9: VMware Explore Europe, Barcelona | Event Page
Nov 6 – 9: Gartner IT Symposium, Barcelona | Event Page
Nov 6 – 9: KubeCon North America, Chicago | Event Page
Nov 12 - 17 – Supercomputing, Denver | Event Page
Nov 14: IBM Cloud Reception at Supercomputing 2023 | Invitation Link
Nov 20 - 21: Gartner IT Infrastructure & Cloud Summit, London| Event Page
Nov 27: Financial Times Global Banking Summit, London, | Event Page
Dec 5-7 - Gartner IT Infra, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conf, Las Vegas | Event Page
Partner Enablement
Up your game with Cloud Masterclass for partners - When buyers understand the business value of your offer, deals close faster at higher average order values.
Watch the all the 11 Cloud Masterclass for Partners ondemand.
Join the new IBM Cloud on SAP community today! Share advice and best practices with peers and stay up to date regarding product enhancements, regional user group meetings, webinars, how-to blogs, and other helpful materials.
Training and Certification
IBM Center for Cloud Training wins third straight Brandon Hall Gold Award. Like and share the LinkedIn post.
Read the IBM Learning Blog to stay up to date on the course curricula.
Get Certified on the IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Specialty today.
IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions drives 209% return on investment, USD 1.2 million in savings from increased operational efficiency. It can also protect and future-proof VMware investments, per the Total Economic Impact™ of IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions study, Forrester, 2021. Clients like Harry Rosen and Prysmian Group are reaping the benefits of investing in IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions as their IT Infrastructure.
Sign up for the Specialty Certification today and extend the above benefits to your clients.
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