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IBM Europe, Middle East, and Africa Hardware
Announcement ZG12-0264
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• Script sharing
• Windows PowerShell Web Access
• Updatable help
• RunAs capability
• Default parameter values
• New cmdlets
Network virtualization:
Flexibility to place VMs anywhere, whether on-premise or hosted.
Any VM can be placed on any node irrespective of the IP address, and multiple VMs
can have their own IP addresses. This makes the transition to hosters' private clouds
easier for customers with existing on-premise VMs/physical servers.
Windows NIC teaming:
Improved network availability, performance and load balancing.
Network adapter teaming, also known as LBFO, allows multiple network adapters on
a computer to be placed into a team for the following purposes:
• Bandwidth aggregation
• Traffic failover to prevent connectivity loss in the event of a network component
failure
De-duplication:
Reduce storage capacity requirements by only storing unique data blocks.
De-duplication is an in-box feature that delivers capacity optimization, scale and
performance, reliability, and data integrity at no additional cost.
Product positioning
Distributor and Reseller benefits
• Great pricing: Take advantage of a great price to lower your product acquisition
costs and increase margins.
• Convenience and flexibility: Enjoy convenience in ordering and stock flexibility.
• Add-on sales: Sell Software Assurance within 90 days and get more opportunities
to sell value-added services.
Client benefits
• Price advantage: Buying the System x , BladeCenter , and PureFlex System
server and Windows operating system together with the ROK offers your
customers better pricing than buying them separately.
• Convenient deployment: Ordering the ROK through a System x , BladeCenter ,
and PureFlex System server Reseller is the fastest and easiest way for your
customers to deploy server software.
• Easy ordering: Ordering Microsoft Windows Server 2012 ROK together with the
System x , BladeCenter , and PureFlex System server offers your customers
simple, one-stop shopping convenience.
Windows Server 2012: benefits of upgrading
Windows Server 2012 benefits that impact the day-to-day IT operations of a
company and the benefits of upgrading:
• Simplified management: By upgrading to Windows Server 2012 your customers
will experience an integrated, highly available, and easy to manage multi-server
platform with breakthrough efficiency and ubiquitous automation.