Arrow ECS IBM Group Newsletter

V7000 Technical Sales 6.4 Announcement Call

This technical sales training call will get you up to speed on the new SVC and Storwize V7000 6.4 release. Join IBM for this technical update and learn about all that is new with SVC / Storwize V7000 6.4.

June Bid Bucket Available for all IBM Storage Products

In conjunction with IBM, Arrow is pleased to roll out the June Bid Bucket.  This is an incentive to help you progress and close STRETCH transactions into the month of June.

Register now for the IBM Webcast: Forrester Total Economic Impact Study of Midrange Storage

Midrange storage is the workhorse of data center storage management, but it is often under appreciated and under examined.

IBM® Storwize® V7000 storage systems are designed to complement virtualized server environments that provide unmatched performance, availability, advanced functions, and highly scalable capacity never seen before in midrange disk systems. Jon Erickson from Forrester Research will review the findings from Storwize V7000 users studied as a part of the recently completed Forrester Total Economic Impact™ Study of Storwize V7000. Among the findings were:

How to manage the explosive growth of unstructured data with IBM SmartCloud Enterprise and Object Storage - May 30 Webcast (11:00 a.m. ET)

Enterprise IT managers are tasked with the mission to solve for the vast explosion of business data. As business data continues its relentless growth, building complex, tiered storage architectures is no longer practical. Near-line storage is not cost-effective for burgeoning file archives, and tape storage cannot satisfy compliance demands for rapid data access. It has been nearly impossible to keep ahead of the explosion of data - and how to cost effectively and safely - store it , until now.

Share the savings! Your clients save on IBM training...You save big on IBM training events!

Help your clients maximize their investment in IBM hardware. Reward your clients* with a 10 percent discount on eligible IBM systems training classes. For every 10 students who enroll and attend eligible IBM training beginning April 16, 2012, but no later than October 15, 2012, you receive an incredible 90 percent discount on attendance for one seat at these 2012 IBM Storage and Technology University events:

IBM Edge2012

IBM Edge2012 is a first-of-its-kind, premier storage conference that brings together client success stories and best practices, industry thought leaders, world-class training and innovative IBM technologies all in one place—the Bonnet Creek Resort in Orlando, Florida, from June 4-8, 2012.

IBM SmartCloud Enterprise Spring 2012 Business Partner promotion (sign up by May 28, 2012; expires June 11, 2012)

IBM SmartCloud Enterprise represents the next generation, enterprise Cloud platform from IBM. With the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise Spring 2012 promotion  customers can sign up for the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise offering at no charge for the promotional period on select virtual machines and storage in select IBM Cloud Data Centers. This promotion will show your clients the value of the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise without financial risk.

IBM Storwize V7000 Disk System Business Partner Incentive

Eligible IBM® Business Partners earn a $1,500 rebate for every eligible Storwize V7000 Disk System that they sell and ship before May 31, 2012. This rebate can be used to help enhance the sale to the End User or give more margin to the Business Partner.  And remember, Arrow Fusion has an existing service in place for the implementation.

Arrow Storage Partners: V7000 Update Call - April 17

Please make sure to register for and attend this call to hear the latest updates on the V7000 from IBM’s, John Miller.  The agenda will include….

• V7 Updates including TCO now for unified / demo w Active Cloud
• Advanced Function availability
• New incentives for 2Q, and more

Call Details:
Date:  Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Time:  2:00 - 3:00 PM EST

Register

Share the savings! Your clients save on IBM training...You save big on IBM training events!

Help your clients maximize their investment in IBM hardware. Reward your clients* with a 10 percent discount on eligible IBM systems training classes. For every 10 students who enroll and attend eligible IBM training beginning April 16, 2012, but no later than October 15, 2012, you receive an incredible 90 percent discount on attendance for one seat at these 2012 IBM Storage and Technology University events: