Celerity Launches 'PowerForce' Program

Celerity launches its Power Force program aimed at existing IBM POWER customers with older POWER servers to demonstrate how they can drastically reduce their operating costs by running workloads unchanged on current POWER servers.

 

With IT budgets under constant strain Celerity has developed the Power Force program to allow customers to exploit both the short and medium term savings driven by refreshing their AIX infrastructure, usually delivering some in year savings with significant savings from year two onwards. These savings are driven by a reduction in hardware and software maintenance costs, reduced power and cooling costs, the reduction of data centre footprint, and significantly reduced software licensing costs driven by the reduction in the number of processors needed to provide equivalent performance.

 

The integrated program developed by Celerity’s Business Development Manager Alan Mackenzie-Wintle and Technical Director Chris Hall is designed to be self-funding, quick to implement, and non-disruptive as it requires very little technical input from the customer.

 

Using our technology model which has been built up utilising Celerity’s experience in POWER systems over the last 10 years, we are able to give customers an estimate of the typical savings that can be made over a three year period within 24 hours of engagement. This is followed by a detailed study, which takes approximately two weeks to carry out, and results in a report containing both detailed information of the savings available on the customer’s specific estate together with details of a costed target server infrastructure. In many cases we are able to provide this study at limited or no cost to the customer.

Celerity started the program earlier in the year but wanted to extend the service to a wider audience because of its success. Peter Reakes, Celerity Sales Director commented, "We have been able to show major savings sometimes in seven figures across a variety of customers and wanted to broaden the reach of service. In many instances we can show savings in year one, even with the capital costs of new servers, then greater savings in years two and three. Even customers who consider their Power AIX estate as legacy and have plans to migrate to different platforms can often benefit due to the scale and immediacy of the savings".

 

For more details on the Celerity Power Force Program please contact your Celerity Representative or email: marketing@celerity-uk.com