Flexible Infrastructure Solutions for Consumption-Based Pricing

Overview

Get cloud economics on flexible infrastructure

Respond and scale quickly with consumption-based pricing solutions. Subscription-based, pay-per-use, and pay-as-you-grow solutions offer transparency in pricing and capacity planning so you can get more from your IT budget and meet demand.

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Benefits

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Flexible

Find solutions tailored to your needs with a choice of pricing models.

Scalable

Efficiently scale up and down with fully activated capacity.

Reliable

Run on the most comprehensive and reliable IT infrastructure.

Subscription-based infrastructure solutions

Gain flexibility and maintain security with cloud-like solutions

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Storage as a Service* (STaaS)

Preserve cash flow and gain cloud-like agility with this subscription-based offering.

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Power co-located with IBM Cloud

Extend IBM Power® and gain flexibility with pay-as-you-use billing.

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Secure services for cloud infrastructure

Have full control over sensitive data, workloads and encryption keys.

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Pay-per-use solutions

Pay for capacity as you use it to align with costs with usage

Flexible, cross-stack pricing for IBM Z

Usage-based and full-capacity licensing offer price predictability.

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Elastic capacity for IBM Power

Optimize IT costs with flexible consumption for capacity planning.

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Storage capacity on demand

Prepare for growth but pay for storage capacity only as you consume it.

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Pay-as-you-grow solutions remove budget obstacles

Align payments to workloads for agility and flexibility

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Consumption-based pricing case studies

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Evolution Systems

The technology services provider leverages the IBM Storage Utility Offering for variable capacity to accommodate the shifting demands of cloud services customers.

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Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP)

A multiyear agreement with IBM accelerates CCEP’s transformation to an open hybrid cloud environment, including SAP workloads.

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Dillard’s

The upscale department store chain uses IBM Tailored Fit Pricing to cost-effectively scale IT during the holidays and other peak demand periods.

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Resources

IT consumption storage assessment

Should you consider a flexible consumption model for your on-premises storage?

Consumption pricing guide

When is consumption-based IT a better option than on-demand consumption? (3.8 MB)

Cost comparisons

Tailored Fit Pricing for IBM Z offers cost-effective workload growth. (942 KB)

Storage capacity

See how IBM Storage Utility delivers a new way to procure the capacity you need. (104 KB)

Storage guarantees

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IT economics

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Next steps

 IT infrastructure modernization

Modernize apps, servers and storage in place to integrate with hybrid cloud and AI.

Containerization

With IBM Cloud Paks® and Red Hat® OpenShift® you gain the economics of cloud-native development.

On-prem infrastructure for hybrid cloud

Maintain stability even during disruptions with servers and storage made for hybrid cloud.

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

Scale and shrink resources as needed in more than 60 data centers.

Flexible infrastructure and pricing solutions