Promos & Updates
IBM Q2 Promotions
IBM System x – Double Memory for FREE – EXTENDED
For a limited time only, when you purchase selected IBM System x Express servers, with extra memory, you can claim back the price paid for the additional memory, directly from IBM.
IBM System x – FREE Additional Processor – EXTENDED
For a limited time only, when you purchase selected IBM System x Express servers, you can receive an additional processor for free – claim back the value of the additional processor direct from IBM.
IBM Software – ‘Try Before You Buy’
All of the following ‘Try Before you Buy’ Offers are available:
IBM System x & BladeCenter – FREE VMWare 90 Day Trial Offer
IBM is providing a free 90 day trial of an evaluation copy of VMware with every System x and BladeCenter sold. It is the FULL VMware Infrastructure 3 product, including Virtual Center, Vmotion etc for every server! This offer is exclusive to IBM, currently no other OEM has it.
IBM Software – ‘Try Before You Buy’
All of the following ‘Try Before you Buy’ Offers are available as a download from the IBM website:
- IBM Lotus QuickR 8.0
Free trial version of Lotus Quickr 8.0, a Web 2.0-based team collaboration offering, which transforms the way everyday business content such as documents and rich media (such as photos and videos) can be shared and enables more effective team collaboration across organizational boundaries.
90 Day Evaluation Trial Period. - Lotus Notes, Domino Designer & Domino Administrator Clients 8
Free trial version of IBM® Lotus Notes® 8 software -- showcasing a modern, web-like look-and-feel in a familiar Lotus Notes client format. It’s visually appealing, highly consistent and feature rich. Offering e-mail, calendar and scheduling, personal journal, to-do lists, support for innovative business solutions and a set of productivity tools -- all within a single interface, in the context of the work you’re doing -- IBM Lotus Notes 8 software helps you work smarter, presenting the tools you need, when and where you need them.
60 Day Evaluation Trial Period - Rational Appscan Standard Edition V7.7
Free trial of IBM® Rational® AppScan® Standard Edition V7.7, previously known as Watchfire AppScan, a leading Web application security testing tool that automates vulnerability assessments and scans and tests for all common Web application vulnerabilities including SQL-injection, cross-site scripting and buffer overflow.
This trial is unlimited. - Lotus Forms V3.0.1
Learn about IBM Lotus® Forms V3.0.1 (formerly Workplace Forms) and IBM Lotus Forms Express V3.0.1, which provide a zero-footprint eForms solution to help you automate and move forms-based business processes off the desktop and onto the Web. With Lotus Forms V3.0.1, you can extend applications beyond the firewall by creating a single electronic form document ready for use in both thick and Web 2.0 thin client format.
90 Day Evaluation Trial Period - DB2 9 for Linux, Unix & Windows
Free trial version of IBM® DB2® 9.5 for Linux®, UNIX®, and Windows®. DB2 9 is the result of a five-year development project that transformed traditional (static) database technology into an interactive data server that merges the high performance and ease of use of DB2 with the self-describing benefits of XML. DB2 9.5 can be deployed on Linux, UNIX, or Windows servers of any size, from one CPU to hundreds of CPUs.
New in this release: You now have the option to select which trial edition Enterprise, Workgroup, or Express) to download.
90 Day Evaluation Trial Period
Interest Free Financing with IGF
IBM Global Financing is offering a new promotion which enables customers to acquire IBM hardware and new software licences, and get interest free financing for 12 months.
Eligible Products:
• System i
• System p
• System x
• Printing Systems
• Storage
• Software (new licences)
• IBM Retail Store Solutions.
Accredited VMware Capacity Planning Audit – Huge Savings!!!
Optimise the capacity of your IT infrastructure with a Capacity Planning Audit from Celerity.
Assessment of your current IT resource utilisation can demonstrate how virtualisation optimises unused capacity, reduces departmental costs and contributes to a greener server environment.
As an Accredited VMware Capacity Planning Specialist, Celerity are offering clients for a limited period only, a Capacity Planning Audit on up to 25 servers in your datacenter, at the hugely discounted price of £2000+VAT …a fraction of the cost charged by other resellers.
Your VMware Capacity Planning Audit includes:
- Performance Analysis of existing equipment
- Detailed Capacity Optimisation Planning
- Tailored recommendations for a cost-effective virtualisation solution
For further information click here or email enquiries@celerity-uk.com or alternatively call 0870 240 8116 and ask to speak to your Territory Sales Representative quoting ref: MKT08/VMWweb
IBM BladeCenter Chassis S – Exclusive Offer from Celerity Ltd
In conjunction with IBM, Celerity is offering customers an exclusive offer on the IBM BladeCenter Chassis S – integrating servers, storage, networking and I/O into one single chassis, the IBM BladeCenter Chassis S is the ideal solution for any SME environment……
…….. and all at the exclusive price of £24,999 +VAT*
Offer includes:
- Blade Chassis S
- 6 Blades each with 2 quad core processors & 16GB RAM
- 9TB Internal Shared Storage
- On-site Installation
- Documentation
For further information click here or email enquiries@celerity-uk.com or alternatively call 0870 240 8116 and ask to speak to your Territory Sales Representative quoting ref: MKT08/BCSweb
*Figure dependant on exact configuration of server
Plug into 500% Oracle Cost Reduction with IBM System p and Oracle Sockets
Oracle has changed licensing around Standard Edition, changes that particularly benefit IBM System p5 users, offering up to 500% savings around Oracle Sockets.
Celerity are advising current HP and Sun users exactly how they can take full advantage of this change.
For further information Click Here
To discuss how your business can start making savings today on your Oracle investment, please email enquiries@celerity-uk.com or alternatively call 0870 240 8116 quoting ref MKT08/SKTweb
Leveraging the Power of Oracle 11g
Celerity, in conjunction with the IBM's Oracle Alliances Manager and Bell Microsystems (distributor) are currently executing a campaign to raise customer awareness of the benefits of running Oracle 11G in a Power6 environment.
There are numerous advantages associated with the latest version of Oracle and IBM's Power6 / AIX 6 Operating system and we feel that existing customers and prospects have the ability to add significant value to their business by combining the two vendor offerings.
eWEEK Labs has recently recognised Oracle Database 11g as one of “The Most Important Products of 2007”, acknowledging Oracle Database 11g as one of 10 new product releases providing business with significant technology improvements.
eWEEK Labs stated, "Oracle's Database 11g is the cornerstone of the vendor's dynamically allocated computing grids and should garner the attention of database managers with its improved management, recovery, and table compression capabilities."
If you would like further information regarding this initiative please contact Paul Hunt, Celerity Business Development Manager on 0870 240 8116 or alternatively email enquiries@celerity-uk.com quoting ref: MKT08/11Gweb