Signs of the Times: IBM PartnerWorld Withdraws the Registered Reseller Program

We went through the grief of getting registered with IBM as we had a proposal that required Tier 1 with IBM fitting the bill better than Dell.

With the recent rumblings that IBM is looking to sell their System X (Intel x86 line) product group possibly to Lenovo the above announcement makes some sense.

Though, given how difficult the whole partner process was to get signed up and registered in the first place maybe enrolment was really low to begin with.

In the end, our Tier 1 hardware needs can be more than met by Dell so long as it is backed up by the 24x7x365 by 4 hour on-site response warranty with no “Phone Support” clause. :P

Philip Elder
MPECS Inc.
Microsoft Small Business Specialists
Co-Author: SBS 2008 Blueprint Book

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MPECS Inc.'s Entry Level, Mid-Level, and Premium Level IT Solution Sets

We have a number of IT Solution sets in our repertoire.

Here are three IT Solutions we have posted on our blog to give you an idea of where we can start through to a high end Hyper-V Failover Cluster based on the Intel Modular Server.

• A Virtualized SBS 2011 and RDS Setup Completed With Some Pics
• Entry level 1U 1S Intel Server System
• Virtualize 2 or 3 server OSs plus a couple of desktop OSs
• Designed for 5-30 Users
• Deployed 2 Node 2U Intel Server System Hyper-V Failover Cluster With Pics
• Mid-Level dual 2U 2S Intel Server Systems
• 4.5TB Central Storage
• Hyper-V Failover Cluster
• One server fails everything that was on it moves over to the other server.
• Designed to provide server resilience for 15-130 Seats
• Configurations customized for particular needs.
• Production Hyper-V Failover Cluster on an Intel Modular Server Pictures
• Premium-Level Tri-Node 2S Intel Modular Server System
• 3 Blade Servers/Compute Modules sporting dual Intel Xeon Processors per Compute Module.
• 3.6TB Built-In SAN Storage
• 4.5TB Central Storage Unit with Redundant SAS Connections
• Combined Storage: 8.1TB or thereabouts.
• Designed to provide server resilience for 35-175+ Seats
• Configurations customized for particular needs.

With today's Intel Server Systems, the Intel Modular Server, Promise Storage, and IBM Storage we can provide some highly customized IT Solutions for our clients and prospective clients.

For those that request on-site warranties from Tier 1 we would offer IBM Servers and their warranties.

With the advent of Windows Server 2012 and the awesome new Hyper-V features we can go even further with companies that have multiple sites using Hyper-V Replica as well as the now accessible DirectAccess feature that is in Windows Server 2012.

The On-Premises future looks very bright indeed! :)

Philip Elder
MPECS Inc.
Microsoft Small Business Specialists
Co-Author: SBS 2008 Blueprint Book

*Our original iMac was stolen (previous blog post). We now have a new MacBook Pro courtesy of Vlad Mazek, owner of OWN.

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