Bangkok--21 Oct--IBM Thailand
IBM today announced a new financing program to help current HP, Oracle-Sun, and EMC customers in Thailand migrate to IBM's Power? family of workload optimized servers or IBM’s System Storage.
The new program, provided by IBM Global Financing, is designed to help clients easily and affordably acquire new mid-range and high-end IBM Power Systems? and IBM System Storage. It also includes IBM cash-back for new or used equipment, attractive lease terms and no payments until early 2011 for credit-qualified clients. The program expands opportunity for thousands of HP, Oracle-Sun, and EMC customers in Thailand, following a successful launch in the US last month.
Mr. Tanapong Ittisakulchai, Country Manager, Systems & Technology Group, IBM Thailand Co., Ltd. said “Used and old Oracle-Sun and HP systems will be processed, dismantled or sold as parts and scrap on the secondary market. Additionally, credit qualified clients can benefit from a payment deferral and avoid payments until 2011 on their new Power Systems to accommodate a seamless move to IBM systems.
Cash back opportunities with competitive leasing rates and deferrals will make it easy for Thailand businesses to migrate to the new IBM's workload optimized systems Customers can then rest assured that they have the solid backing of IBM’s continuing investment in R&D for the POWER line, a well-defined roadmap and the upgrade flexibility they need to keep their business growing.”
Through the IBM Global Financing lease program, clients can be confident that their technology expenditure will keep pace with their technology growth, without major up-front cash outlays for incremental capacity increases. Credit qualified clients are able to easily "turn on" additional processing capacity built into the mid-range Power 770 and high-end 780 and 795 systems -- without major disruption to their operations -- and experience little or no change to monthly lease payments through a base lease extension. This smooth transition approach for both technology and cash flow allows clients to maximize their investment and achieve higher economic value throughout the IT lifecycle, while avoiding technology obsolescence with affordable mid-lease upgrades and programmatic refreshes.
The new high-end Power systems are designed to manage the most demanding workloads and emerging applications. The new systems — servers, software and IBM's industry-leading PowerVM? virtualization capabilities — allow customers to better manage ever-increasing amounts of data in an interconnected world and to conserve energy and floor space in burdened data centers.
Mr. Tanapong Ittisakulchai added, "IBM has an unmatched migration capability for customers moving from non-IBM servers to IBM Systems, In the first half of 2010 globally IBM, we concluded over 500 competitive migrations to IBM Power Systems. More than 2,600 companies around the world have switched from other vendor platforms to IBM Power Systems since IBM established its Migration Factory program four years ago."
For more information about the new financing program please visit: http://www.ibm.com/financing/us/lifecycle/manage/migration/move.html.
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