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Operational expenses are something that businesses must budget for on a routine basis. You expect to pay power, facility, and maintenance costs every month. Capital expenses or solution acquisition costs are another matter. This is often “extra” money that you work hard to accumulate and then invest in your business – when you have it.

Capital expenditures are often a serious issue in the IT world. The same innovation that constantly drives remarkable improvements in IT infrastructure also makes that infrastructure potentially obsolete every few years. This forces business leaders to consider upgrading in order to remain competitive.

But “upgrade” often means injecting additional capital investments. Or does it? Imagine making a capital investment into a solution only once.

This is what the new IBM Flash Upgrade Program offers. IBM clients make a onetime investment in designated award-winning IBM all-flash Storwize and IBM FlashSystem solutions and maintenance.  And then, as equivalent next-generation technology becomes available, IBM can refresh your controllers and appropriate related components in your all-flash arrays after three years from the original purchase at a price not to exceed ongoing maintenance on your current controller[1].

Thanks to the new program, taking advantage of IBM engineering and innovation in these designated flash solutions becomes easier. Plus, you have the opportunity to move some of your business investments away from basic IT infrastructure and instead use them to develop new applications and opportunities that can give your business a competitive edge.

For IBM clients, the Flash Upgrade Program offers multiple benefits:

• Helps to reduce future IBM flash storage procurement costs.
• Helps to reduce the risks associated with deploying new controller-related technologies in your business-critical cloud and data center environments.
• Provides continued operation with current storage technology.
• Reduces planning cycles. And, because IBM all-flash storage arrays can be configured with capabilities such as hybrid cloud management, your planning horizons can potentially be extended for years.

This program adds yet another facet to an already well-established spectrum of IBM flash storage warranties that demonstrate our confidence in the products we sell. For example, IBM provides endurance, data reduction, customer support, lab services and performance guarantees across our all-flash storage portfolio, as well as Flash Centers of Competency around the world to help you evaluate, design and deploy flash storage solutions that meet your needs and budget.

Perhaps most importantly, IBM’s new program is designed to turn the traditional IT innovation benefits/cost cycle on its head. Instead of Moore’s Law offering a mixed bag of exciting improvements tangled together with the relentless requirement to keep pace, the Flash Upgrade Program helps address some of the challenges that naturally come with flash storage evolution. We think that’s especially important to IBM customers who have grown accustomed to benefiting from some of the finest storage engineering.

There’s plenty to like about the new Flash Upgrade Program from IBM Storage. You can find the details here. Take advantage of this program as soon as you can.

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