IBM Journal on Ulitzer

IBM says it carved a couple of hundred notches on its gun in the fourth quarter after persuading both Sun and HP users to defect. It says all told it's gotten 2,200 companies to move off of HP and Sun server and storage gear since beginning its Migration Factory program four years ago. Last year, it claims 550 Sun users and 250 HP users went over to its Power, System x and mainframe boxes and storage. IBM now has new tools that automate Sun migrations. The stuff automatically discovers and identifies Sun assets and provisions the new IBM environments, streamlining workload transitions. It says the software can shorten migrations from Solaris to Linux or AIX along with applications and middleware from weeks to days.