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Get your VMware investment under your control with IBM Cloud

  •  Optimize your VMware licensing with the functionality you need at a cost you can afford and count on.
  • Stay on the cutting edge of technology with IBM Cloud's robust infrastructure, ensuring your critical workloads run smoothly and efficiently.
  • Get continuous monitoring, management, and optimization of your VMware environment, enabling your IT teams to focus on strategic initiatives.

 

Get your VMware under your control

A VMware offer that gets everyone behind IT

 

Moving your VMware workloads to IBM Cloud offers a powerful, cost-effective solution to drive technological innovation and ensure the resilience of your IT infrastructure.

The recent pricing adjustments introduce significant challenges. Partnering with GlassHouse Systems, leveraging IBM Cloud for VMware, offers a powerful alternative that ensures cost savings, reduced licensing risks, and enhanced operational flexibility through a fully managed service experience.

Bridge Licensing Program

  • Get licensing and support for existing systems as you move to the IBM Cloud and opt to contract with GlassHouse/IBM or Broadcom for continued licensing and support of your systems while GlassHouse performs the migration.

Minimize Financial Risks

  • Immediate Cost Control: Simplify financial management and mitigate licensing risks introduced in your renewal agreement.
  • Long-Term Financial Stability: Get predictable licensing costs with IBM Cloud, ensuring financial stability and mitigating the risk of unexpected price increases and audits.

Phased Migration

  • 6-Month Migration Period: Implement a flexible, phased migration approach over six months, minimizing financial disruption and enabling thorough planning.
  • Gradual Transition: Move workloads step-by-step, allowing for careful testing and optimization without impacting ongoing financial operations.

Significant Cost Savings

  • 25% to 45% Savings Compared to Broadcom: Achieve substantial cost reductions with IBM Cloud’s pricing models, providing immediate financial relief and long-term savings.
  • Reduction in Operational and Capital Expenses: Lower your total cost of ownership by reducing the need for extensive on-premises infrastructure and associated maintenance costs.

Advanced Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

  • High Availability:
    Leverage IBM Cloud's global network of data centers to ensure high availability for your critical applications. Deploy workloads across multiple regions to minimize the impact of local failures and ensure continuous operations.
  • Disaster Recovery Solutions:
    Benefit from robust disaster recovery solutions that provide rapid recovery times and minimal data loss. IBM Cloud’s disaster recovery services ensure that your business can quickly resume operations in the event of a disruption.
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Managed Services for Operational Efficiency

  • Day 2 Managed Services:
    We offer comprehensive Day 2 managed services at the application, database, and infrastructure levels. This allows you to focus on running your business while GlassHouse Systems handles the ongoing management, maintenance, and optimization of your cloud environment.
  • Operational Efficiency:
    Enjoy the benefits of GlassHouse Systems' expertise in managing cloud infrastructure, ensuring high availability, performance, and reliability. This operational support helps you reduce the burden on your IT teams and allows them to focus on strategic initiatives.
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Shield your data with IBM's state-of-the-art cloud security

  • Secure Cloud:
    IBM Cloud offers industry-leading security and compliance solutions, ensuring your data and applications are protected. Services like IBM Key Protect, IBM Cloud Security Advisor, and integrated encryption help you meet regulatory requirements and safeguard your critical assets.

  • Compliance:
    IBM's Cloud is a premier choice for compliance and regulatory adherence across industries, providing unmatched capabilities and stringent security measures to meet the most demanding standards. 

    Its comprehensive approach ensures businesses can operate confidently in a highly regulated environment.

    IBM Cloud supports a wide range of global and industry-specific regulations such as GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS, demonstrating its versatility and commitment to security.

    With features like continuous compliance monitoring, data encryption, and robust access controls, IBM Cloud maintains a secure infrastructure that adapts to evolving regulatory landscapes.
  • Data Sovereignty:
    A global network of data centers ensures data sovereignty and compliance with local laws, making IBM's Cloud an ideal choice for organizations operating across multiple jurisdictions​​​​.
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Future-Proofing Your IT Infrastructure

  • Continuous Innovation:
    IBM Cloud continually updates and enhances its services, ensuring that you always have access to the latest technologies and innovations. This future-proofs your IT infrastructure, enabling you to stay ahead of the competition.
  • Technology Upgrades:
    With IBM Cloud, you never have to worry about hardware upgrades again. IBM manages the underlying infrastructure, allowing you to focus on leveraging new technologies to drive business value and innovation.
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Regain control of your VMware investment

Discover tailored solutions for your specific virtualization environment.

Cloud projects we delivered recently

Retail:

Cashing in with IBM Cloud

Navigating the evolving retail landscape requires technological innovation and efficiency. With the ever-growing demands for omnichannel retailing, enhancing operational flexibility, and minimizing downtime costs, our retail client needed to take its Point of Sale infrastructure to the next level.

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Cashing in with IBM Cloud

Navigating the evolving retail landscape requires technological innovation and efficiency. With the ever-growing demands for omnichannel retailing, enhancing operational flexibility, and minimizing downtime costs, our retail client needed to take its Point of Sale infrastructure to the next level.

Banking:

Cloud pays dividends

In a rapidly changing financial landscape, innovative solutions are a necessity. GlassHouse Systems, an IBM Platinum Partner
specializing in IBM Cloud, partnered with IBM Cloud to execute a significant transition for a mid-sized Bank's IT environment.
This project involved moving from a completely on-premises system to a fully IBM Cloud-based setup. Several challenges presented themselves during the project: 

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Cloud pays dividends

In a rapidly changing financial landscape, innovative solutions are a necessity. GlassHouse Systems, an IBM Platinum Partner
specializing in IBM Cloud, partnered with IBM Cloud to execute a significant transition for a mid-sized Bank's IT environment.
This project involved moving from a completely on-premises system to a fully IBM Cloud-based setup. Several challenges presented themselves during the project: 

Insurance:

Storage modernization with a transition to Cloud

Modernizing storage infrastructure for claims application, delivering DR capability across sites and enabling backup and archive into the public cloud...

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Storage modernization with a transition to Cloud

Modernizing storage infrastructure for claims application, delivering DR capability across sites and enabling backup and archive into the public cloud...

Migrates mission-critical workloads to the cloud

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accelerate its strategic transformation

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How one hospital met its digital health demands— aggressively

GlassHouse Systems:
IBM Cloud Experts

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About GlassHouse Systems

For more than 30 years, GlassHouse Systems (GHS) has been delivering transformative digital and security technologies that power the most innovative companies. Our teams address the entire breadth of business needs, from strategy and design to managing secure operations on-premises and in the cloud. To do this, we draw on our deep in-house expertise and strategic partnerships and deliver creative technical deployments that help chart new strategies for our clients' growing digital resiliency needs.

Meet your team

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Explore IBM Power 10

Modernize mission-critical compute with Power Virtual Server.

Seamlessly move and manage workloads across both cloud and on-premises environments

Get the same experience as you would on-premises while taking advantage of all the capabilities and economics that a hybrid cloud solution has to offer.

 

 

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