IBM Systems Lab Services Storage Implementation Services Program

Start and End Dates

This offer is valid from 22-Sep-2015.

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Which countries is the offer available in?

This offer is available only in Canada, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, United States, U.S. Virgin Islands

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Terms & Conditions

This promotion is not eligible in the Caribbean North District

Can be combined with any other discount, credits or rebates on the eligible product(s).

White space is defined as a End User customer who does not have any of the specific products being proposed currently installed in their Enterprise.  A competitive opportunity is to replace non-IBM competitive machines with IBM.

Lab Services post sale implementation offering options for Eligible Products:

Storwize:
•Clustered V7000 Storage Design and Validation
•Storage External Virtualization Design and Validation for one External Storage Array
•IP Replication: Design and Bandwidth Estimation for 2 Hosts
•Storage based Data Migration to Storwize V7000 for two Hosts (5 TB each)
•Storwize V7000 Gen2 Storage Design and Implementation
•Custom services up to 40 hours

Spectrum Virtualize /SVC net revenue to IBM between $100K USD and $250K USD:
•Basic SVC Health Check
•Real-time Compression- Technology Adoption Workshop and Comprestimator Analysis of 10 Hosts
•SVC based Data Migration for two Hosts
•Storage Replication: Design and Bandwidth Estimation for two Hosts

Spectrum Virtualize /SVC net revenue to IBM > $250K USD:
•SVC Health Check with Performance Analysis of 5 Hosts
•SVC Design and Implementation with virtualization of one External Storage Array
•SVC based Data Migration for 5 Hosts (5 TB each)

FlashSystem V9000 Tier 1 Guarantee 228+TB solutions up to 556 TB:
•FlashSystem V9000 ( 228 to 556 TB) Implementation Services

FlashSystem V9000 Tier 1 Guarantee 556+TB solutions:
•FlashSystem V9000 (556 TB) Implementation Services

Spectrum Scale
•IBM Spectrum Scale Deployment Quick Start Service

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Qualifying/Eligible Products & Services

This offer is valid for the Products/Services detailed in the List of Eligible Products available on the Additional Information tab Attachments.

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Ordering

The promotional services must be included in the product proposal. Requests made for services after the product shipment will not be accepted. Follow the 4 steps in the 'How To Claim' section PRIOR to submitting orders for the eligible products.

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How to claim

To include IBM post sales implementation Lab Services in your proposal follow these 4 steps:
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1. Business Partner must send the deal specifics to the IOT Sales Leader for the eligible product asking for approval. Nomination Template and IOT Sales Leaders provided in the Operations Guide.  Only proceed to Step 2 if approved.
2. Optional:  Include the proposal insert into the deal proposal for the End User. Proposal insert located in the Operations Guide.
Only proceed to Step 3 if End User signs the deal.
3. Contact the Lab Services Opportunity Manager listed below for your Geo to create an APS Letter and schedule the engagement.
4. Have the End User review and acknowledge the APS Letter scope and terms and return to the Lab Services Sales & Opportunity Manager via email.
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Lab Services Opportunity Managers:
Region___Manager______________________Email___________________Telephone #
NA_____Chris Scholl_____________________cscholl@us.ibm.com_______1-612-308-9771
ASEAN__Arunachalam Sundararaman (Arun)__arunacha@sg.ibm.com_____65-6418- 2325
Korea ___Hoo Kyoung Kim________________hookyoungkim@kr.ibm.com__+82 3781 6283
ISA _____Venkatraman Umakanth__________vumakant@in.ibm.com______+1 98801 77885
Japan ___Hirokazu (Kaz) Ichii______________F20182@jp.ibm.com_______080-5915-2915
GCG ____Rong Zheng___________________rongz@cn.ibm.com________+86-1350-138-2445
EU______Wilfried Ochs___________________wochs@de.ibm.com_______+49-7034 274 1986
CEE_____Attila Jozsef Vajda_______________attila.vajda@hu.ibm.com
MEA_____Yasmin Badsha_________________yasminbadsha@za.ibm.com__+27-11-302-5799

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Incentive Calculation

See Offer Details for a description of the Lab Services offerings or refer to the Operations Guide in attachments.

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General Terms & Conditions

• A Business Partner's participation in this offer is subject to the terms and conditions of any applicable agreements, such as the IBM PartnerWorld Agreement and, if applicable, the IBM Business Partner Agreement.
• IBM reserves the right to modify or withdraw this offer at any time.
• This offer is void wherever prohibited or restricted by law.
• All decisions by IBM are final.
• IBM reserves the right to recover from the Business Partner any amounts due to IBM because of overpayment or noncompliance with the offer.
• IBM and Business Partners agree to comply with all withholding tax obligations, as applicable.
• The charges / consideration payable under this offering are inclusive of all indirect taxes, not limited to service tax, value added tax or any local taxes, as applicable.
• Financing may be available. Refer to the at: IBM Global Financing Web site

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Attachments

Attachment Description	Download
Operation Guide	Storage_Implementation_Services_Operations_Guide.pdf

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