Five reasons to love IBM Systems Lab Services
It’s Valentine’s Day. What’s not to love about a global team of IT consultants with proven expertise in designing and delivering IT infrastructure to support today’s businesses? IBM Systems Lab Services consultants bring a wealth of IT experience to help organizations throughout the lifecycle of their IT infrastructure. Their experience spans IBM Power Systems, z Systems and LinuxONE, Storage and Software Defined Infrastructure and covers organizations’ cloud, analytics and migration needs.
Here are five reasons why you should love IBM Systems Lab Services this Valentine’s Day:
- Proven IT infrastructure expertise
First and foremost, IBM Systems Lab Services is a team with extensive technical and business expertise. Consultants leverage proven tools and methodologies as they work onsite with clients around the world, helping to address their specific business needs and challenges.
Whether your company is looking to install new servers, create a roadmap for cloud transformation, upgrade storage systems for running more powerful analytics tools or migrate a substantial workload, IBM Systems Lab Services can help.
- Leadership in technical events and training
IBM technical training events provide education to clients, IBM Business Partners and IBM employees. Tech training and events span the globe and include IBM TechU Comes to You, Systems Software Education, IBM Systems Technical University and more. Technical training events offer numerous ways to learn, grow and connect, including labs, demos, workshops, product trials and networking opportunities with developers, industry leaders and IBM executives. By investing in technical training, IBM Systems Lab Services is helping to maximize market skills for future IT leaders.
- Academic initiatives to train the next generation of IT professionals
IBM Systems Lab Services is also investing in the future of IT through a host of academic initiatives, including educator toolkits and resources, a student developer community, an online resource hub and the IBM Innovation Center for Education. The Innovation Center for Education offers a series of undergraduate and graduate programs that are industry-aligned and provide state-of-the-art delivery for IT skills around the world.
- Incentive programs for IBM clients
What’s better than getting rewards when you shop? The IBM Systems Lab Services team offers incentives to purchasing clients. Incentive programs help loyal clients earn rewards for purchasing IBM products. For example, the IBM Power to Cloud Reward program enables clients to earn reward points on purchases of some IBM Power Systems servers. These reward points can be used for a range of services focused on helping the business move toward private and hybrid cloud platforms.
- Cloud computing mastery
Cloud is a critical area in the digital transformation of many businesses, and IBM Systems Lab Services can help clients gain the agility, flexibility and efficiency benefits from enterprise-wide cloud computing.
Its services include cloud transformation workshops, reviewing current infrastructure and workloads, assessing cloud readiness and designing a roadmap to cloud.
The IBM Systems Lab Services team can help organizations define the right balance between cloud delivery models, translate this into the relevant multiplatform architectures and implement the necessary server and storage infrastructure. Our experts can even offer tips for working with a cloud service provider!
There’s more where that came from
So are you smitten yet? IBM Systems Lab Services brings proven expertise to today’s most pressing IT needs. Our thought leaders have a wealth of IT experience, as well as in-depth understanding of the forces that are impacting business today. They are paying attention to digital trends and thinking carefully about topics like how you can align IT with business priorities.
To learn more about IBM Systems Lab Services, please email us today.
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