Philadelphia-area IBM Innovation Center

Make your infrastructure more flexible, resilient, and secure.

The IBM® Innovation Center hosted by the ATS Group offers Philadelphia-area companies distinct advantages for quicker, more productive planning, evaluation, and implementation of next-generation IT solutions.

State-of-the-art capabilities from leading names such as IBM®, Brocade®, Cisco® and VMware®, create opportunities for hands-on demos, hypothesis testing, and run-time insight—before you make a significant investment in manpower and capital equipment. They also facilitate training options to help your personnel achieve successful implementation with greater efficiency.

Discover. Achieve.

Test and Validate New Applications. Assure the desired performance of new or modified applications without the need to invest in a separate testing/development infrastructure. Restore an operating system, database, or other application. Validate and upgrade to any of those functions, or simply fine-tune legacy systems for enhanced productivity.

Evaluate New Technology. Capitalize on seminars as well as hands-on testing opportunities
with our newest on-site hardware and software platforms to plan for system growth and
enhanced flexibility.

Verify Recovery Systems. Use our Tivoli® Storage Manager capabilities to verify disaster recovery plans before you confront an emergency. Learn how IBM's ProtecTIER Virtual Tape solution can enhance RTO/RPO's, including replication capabilities.

Customize your unique requirements.

Take advantage of hardware, software, and knowledge-based resources in the Innovation Center to pinpoint your most productive options at every phase of a project lifecycle—from discovery, concept development, and application planning, through implementation.

• Research the building blocks for your next system implementation or upgrade, through hardware and software product briefings. Plus, benefit from the insight of ATS experts who are experienced with both system capabilities and implementation considerations.
• Brainstorm system options for power and productivity with requirement gathering sessions, IT architecture assessments, and on-demand strategic planning workshops.
• Ensure more successful implementation through product training and knowledge transfer. Maximize your outcomes by leveraging both formal and customized IBM training to familiarize your IT staff even before your system solution is fully implemented.
• Evaluate your preferences with solution demonstrations and test-drives. Explore what's possible and how it might look in your applications—before you commit to hardware or systems development.

Harness powerful system resources.

Let your imagination soar in the cloud with your feet planted firmly in reality, by using our significant array of technologies to explore viable options for flexible, resilient, and secure applications:

• Featured Solution Capabilities:
• SONAS (Scale-out NAS)
• SRM (Site Recovery Manager)
• Storage Virtualization
• Storage Replication and Migration
• Enterprise Backup and Recovery
• Disaster Recovery Testing
• Server Consolidation Design and Testing
• Server Performance Benchmarking

• Infrastructure Assets:
• Brocade and Cisco MDS SAN
• IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) - V5 – 8F4 cluster - V6 – CF8 cluster
• IBM Storwise V7000
  - Includes SSD's
• IBM XIV Storage System
• IBM System Storage DS5100
• IBM SONAS
• IBM TS3200 Tape Library (2-LTO5)
• IBM ProtecTIER (2 nodes)
• IBM Blade Center
  - Intel and Power Blades
• IBM System x
• System p5 (Model p520)
• System p7 (Model p702 2-Blades)
• VMware (Includes SRM)
• IBM PowerHA (HACMP)
• IBM GPFS
• IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM)
  - V5.5 and V6.2
• IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
• IBM Director