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Your customers have made significant investments in virtualization technology. Leading with a value-added Health Check service, may be a strategy to re-engage with your virtualization installed-base to provide additional software and hardware.

This service is designed for those customers looking to:
• Improve their virtual machine performance
• Reduce application virtualization deployment time and costs
• Measure their business’ continuity risks
• Put proper sequencing in place for recovery
• Create a virtualization strategy

The Health Check identifies design and operational inefficiencies that impact the customer’s virtualized environment.

Customer benefits from this service include:
• Evaluation of the existing environment to ensure maximum impact
• Optimize virtualized infrastructure performance
• Maximize resources through efficiencies and roadmap for future improvements

Avnet Data Center Lifecycle Services provides a range of services for server, storage and desktop virtualization initiatives including assessments, design and implementation services, pilot programs, and certification training.

For more information, email us or visit the website and request more information.

Kathy Schauer / Director, Solutions Marketing / (480) 794-6470

Virtualization has become a critical component of many corporate IT strategies and is a foundational technology in cloud computing. As your customers seek advice in selecting a virtualization solution or are looking to optimize/consolidate servers, storage or implement a desktop virtualization solution, you can access Avnet’s breadth of consulting and technical expertise to help you:

• Provide a methodology in designing the right solution to meet the organization’s needs that takes into account the current infrastructure

• Plan, test and advise on a complete solution that aligns to your customer needs while minimizing business risk

• Define solution options & provide product specs with ROI/TCO to enable better decision-making

• Augment your bench with VMware, Citrix and Microsoft expertise

As an Avnet partner, you can leverage the Data Center Lifecycle Services team to fill technical, business or geographic gaps to broaden your capabilities and reach. For more information about Avnet’s Virtualization Design and Implementation Services, contact us by email, or visit us on the Web.

Kathy Schauer / Director, Solutions Marketing / (480) 794-6470

Avnet provides our valued VMware resellers with a range of high-margin installation, implementation, and configuration services. Trained and certified by VMware, our engineers can add depth, versatility and experience to complement your professional services bench and to further enable you to provide holistic solutions to your customers.

Avnet VMware Jumpstart Services help your customers accelerate time to market, reduce deployment risk and maximize ROI as they adopt virtualization. Jumpstarts are available for most of the VMware product families and can be combined with other services from Avnet such as assessments, design services, pilots and training.

Featuring full VMware certification, Avnet’s Data Center Lifecycle Services team can deliver a comprehensive portfolio of Jumpstart Services for the VMware product line including―vSphere, View, ThinApp, vCenter Operation Management, vCloud and vCenter Site Recovery Manager. VMware Certified Professional Consultants conduct workshops, setup and configuration of components/technologies and provide knowledge transfer.

Contact us to learn how Avnet can help you provide value-added professional services to meet your customers’ virtualization infrastructure needs.

Kathy Schauer / Director, Solutions Marketing / (480) 794-6470

This will help you better find the resources within Partnerworld that are specific to your role as a System x Reseller.

Use this site to find education, sales resources, marketing materials and more!

CLICK HERE to visit the PartnerWorld access page

Stephanie Matthews / Strategic Marketing Consultant - IBM System x / 210-247-1361

The IBM System x Configuration and Options Guide (COG) is now available in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).

The Configuration and Options Guide contains general configuration information about IBM productsand supported options, such as:

~ IBM System x®
~ BladeCenter
~ Blade Servers & other servers


CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE GUIDE!!!

Stephanie Matthews / Strategic Marketing Consultant - IBM System x / 210-247-1361

IBM BladeCenter and System x Reference Sheets are a set of highly detailed specifications and lists of options, one page for each of our System x servers, and BladeCenter chassis and servers.

Updates included in this issue:
x3620 M3: new model 46x preloaded with Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition

x3630 M3: new model C4x preloaded with Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition


CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE REFERENCE SHEETS

Stephanie Matthews / Strategic Marketing Consultant - IBM System x / 210-247-1361

This paper is intended to provide information regarding Networking Interoperability.

It assembles data from other published IBM tools. Findings may not be realized in all customer environments, and implementation in such environments may require additional steps, configurations and performance analysis.

The information herein is provided “AS IS” with no warranties, express or implied.

This information does not constitute a specification or form part of the warranty for any IBM, Juniper, Brocade, Cisco, Emulex, Broadcomm or QLogic products.



CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE GUIDE

Stephanie Matthews / Strategic Marketing Consultant - IBM System x / 210-247-1361

One-page documents ideal for tele-sales representatives to help explain why customers should choose IBM System x and IBM BladeCenter servers, and make sure we correctly match IBM and competitive servers. Competitors' strengths are also listed, so salespeople know what to watch out for.

CLICK HERE to access the competitive collateral!!!

Stephanie Matthews / Strategic Marketing Consultant - IBM System x / 210-247-1361

IBM System Networking is Extremely Competitive
- Where we Fit
- Client Value Proposition
- Why BPs Should Care
CLICK HERE to downloand One-Pager


IBM System Networking is KEY to IBM Cloud Success
- IBM delivers industry leading 10Gb and 40Gb performance, at 30-50% lower cost than
Cisco
- Highly Scalable Networks with Virtualization Management built In
802.1Qbg compliant virtualization management, included in
- Optimum Cloud Performance for next generation data center networks
CLICK HERE to downloand One-Pager


8 Reasons Why IBM System Networking for Private Clouds
- Service Delivery
- Technical and Sales Training
- Performance and Scalability
CLICK HERE to download One-Pager

Stephanie Matthews / Strategic Marketing Consultant - IBM System x / 210-247-1361

Eligibility:
All IBM Business Partners that are registered members of PartnerWorld are eligible for this benefit.

Take advantage today of the power of syndication services.

Leverage IBM's Web content on your own Web site with minimal effort
Customized for your Web site to feature only the products and services that you offer.

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No ongoing maintenance necessary

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Syndication showcases are currently available for IBM Hardware,
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Stephanie Matthews / Strategic Marketing Consultant - IBM System x / 210-247-1361

There are 3 “customizable” templates that are part of the VoCC offering.

Please Click on each link below to review the documents:
1) The output for Desktop Virtualization in a Microsoft Word Document.
2) The output for Server Consolidation in a Microsoft Word Document.
3) The Summary output in Microsoft PowerPoint.


The great thing about all of these is that they are fully customizable!!!
Logos, branding and other sections can be added (or removed) based on the requirements of the clients.

If you'd like additional information regarding this tool and how to use it with your partners, please contact:

Frank Welder
Frank.Welder@avnet.com
(317) 883-9353

Stephanie Matthews / Strategic Marketing Consultant - IBM System x / 210-247-1361