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The IBM Beacon Award for Outstanding Business Resiliency Solution recognizes the Business Partner that has achieved the greatest results in deploying solutions which help their clients improve the resiliency of their IT infrastructure.
The winner of this award will have enabled clients to reduce downtime and improve the resiliency of their IT infrastructure through a solution which addresses one of the following:
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Enable superior levels of application availability |
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Enable disaster recovery/high availability for virtualized configurations |
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Significant reductions in downtime from planned outages |
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Address risk management with multi-platform disaster recovery solutions |
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This Business Partner’s success is evidenced by:
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inclusion of multiple IBM server, storage and software offerings or features as part of the solution |
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solutions that are repeatable for multiple clients |
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their clients’ adoption of leading edge IBM technologies |
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Additional criteria:
Minimum of 1 (maximum of 3) client references required.
This award recognizes a Business Partner whose technology solution helps customers improve their energy efficiency or other operational costs while demonstrably reducing the overall impact on the environment. Based on quantitative and qualitative results, the IBM Outstanding Energy and Environment Solution Beacon Award highlights the IBM Business Partner whose innovative solution provides our mutual customers with tangible benefit while helping the environment.
The Business Partner solution enables customers to enhance operational or energy efficiency and/or improve IT systems usage. Examples:
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lowering energy consumption by increasing the utilization rates of physical servers, reducing the number of physical resources required, and streamlining the overall IT infrastructure |
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significantly reducing the amount of paper consumed by an enterprise |
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addressing regulatory compliance in energy use while meeting business goals |
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systems and tools that accurately measure and manage energy consumption and helps lead to reduction in green house gas emissions |
Other benefits customers may experience as a result of a winning solution include an improvement in a customer's corporate image by minimizing their environmental impact, the adoption of best practices in power and cooling, financial benefits from reduced energy consumption, and better alignment with the customer's stated sustainability goals. Success is determined by the degree of innovation in the solution, the energy savings customers realize implementing the solution, and the IBM Business Partner revenue obtained in 2008 for the “green” solution. To achieve this goal, the winner will have used some or all of the following technology components: IBM Systems hardware and storage products (System x, z, Power platforms; System storage devices); IBM software solutions (i.e., Lotus, Information Management, Rational, Tivoli and WebSphere), virtualization technologies (including Advanced Power virtualization); Systems Director products; environmental monitoring and diagnostic tools; and metrics that determine cost effectiveness. Additional criteria:
Minimum of 1 (maximum of 3) client references required.
The IBM Beacon Award for Outstanding Virtualization and Consolidation Solution recognizes the Business Partner that has achieved the greatest results in deploying solutions which help their clients improve the utilization, management and flexibility of their of their IT infrastructure leveraging virtualization and consolidation.
The winner of this award will have enabled clients to improve utilization, management and/or flexibility of their IT infrastructure through a solution which addresses one of the following:
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Enable levels of utilization higher than typical industry implementations – for example, current x86 utilization averages approximately 10%. Consolidation could be on servers (System z, Power Systems, System x or BladeCenter) or storage. |
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Enable interoperation of physical and virtual management through IBM Systems Director implementations for POWER or System x/BladeCenter solutions. |
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Implement virtualization technologies in the infrastructure spanning more than one server platform, or a server platform combined with storage. |
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This Business Partner’s success is evidenced by:
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inclusion of multiple IBM server, storage and software offerings or features as part of the solution |
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solutions that are repeatable for multiple clients |
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their clients’ adoption of leading edge IBM technologies |
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Additional criteria:
Minimum of 1 (maximum of 3) client references required.
This IBM Information Infrastructure Solution Beacon Award recognizes the Business Partner that has achieved the greatest results in deploying solutions which help their customers manage and protect their growing data/information. The winner of this award will have implemented storage solutions that enable clients to successfully manage information infrastructure needs through a solution which addresses one or more of the following (CARS) themes:
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Information Compliance |
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Information Availability |
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Information Retention |
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Information Security |
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This Business Partner’s success is evidenced by:
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Their clients’ adoption of leading edge IBM information infrastructure solutions, |
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Inclusion of multiple IBM storage hardware and software offerings or features as part of the solution, |
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Their achievement of their IBM storage growth and sales targets. |
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Additional criteria:
Minimum of 1 (maximum of 3) client references required.
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