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Drive high availability and consistency across your data center with support and services options for IBM Power®, IBM® Z®IBM LinuxONE and IBM Storage, as well as third-party servers and storage.

In today's data-driven world, systems need to be always optimized, for high availability and security. IBM Technology Lifecycle Services offers AI-infused predictive and proactive support, empowering organizations to maximize security, availability, and performance for their hybrid cloud and AI journeys.

IBM is proud to be named a leader in the new IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Support Services 2022 Vendor Assessment report.

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Benefits Reduce downtime

Leverage predictive analytics and proactive support to manage and mitigate IT problems before they threaten business continuity.

Extend the life of your infrastructure

Ensure smooth transitions while extending the life of your systems and software.

Support simplification

Reduce the number of vendors in your data center. Leverage IT services to let IBM manage your day-to-day data center needs.

IBM infrastructure support and services IBM Expert Care

Optimize IT availability and reduce costs through simplified, flexible services and support tiers.

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Hardware and software maintenance

Leverage IBM's flexible support solutions to maintain the value of your IBM infrastucture investment.

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Service extensions

Maintain support for your IBM Power, IBM Z, IBM LinuxONE and IBM Storage products while you plan for your next upgrade with a service extension.

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IBM Z and LinuxONE

Find out more about support and services for IBM Z and LinuxONE.

Technology lifecycle services for IBM Z and LinuxONE IBM LinuxONE Expert Care
IBM Power

Discover more about support and services for IBM Power.

Technology lifecycle services for IBM Power Premium support services for IBM Power and IBM Storage
IBM Storage

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Technology lifecycle services for IBM Storage Explore IBM Storage Insights
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Multivendor support and services
What we do IBM Support Services for Multivendor offers an improved maintenance experience by providing a single point of contact for diverse OEM hardware and software products, in order to best accommodate server, storage, networking, security and software maintenance support needs. Further, it helps maintain currency and deliver timely problem resolution through a single point of accountability. IBM provides a worldwide reach for fast access to experienced technical support personnel around the clock, with a comprehensive set of hardware and software support services that help identify dependencies across client’s IT portfolio. IBM Support Services for Multivendor Server, Storage, Network and Security
Who we support Explore Networking Support Servers
  • IBM Power
  • IBM Z
  • IBM LinuxONE
  • Dell
  • Fujitsu
  • HPE
  • Lenovo
  • Oracle
  • Supermicro
Storage
  • IBM Storage
  • Dell EMC
  • HPE
  • Hitachi
  • Oracle
  • Pure Storage
  • NetApp
Premium services

According to an IDC white paper, a holistic data center support and services strategy includes lifecycle services to “overcome the significant barriers to maintaining and optimizing the complex, multicloud IT infrastructure necessary to support the digital business.”

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Sustainable solutions from deployment to disposal

TLS provides various sustainability offerings designed to help clients optimize IT resource usage, reduce carbon footprint, and meet enterprise security, industry, and regulatory requirements through secure and sustainable asset disposal, throughout the lifecycle.

Task-based services for your data center

TLS provides hardware-agnostic and software task-based services for a variety of projects. Services are available for special events such as relocation, physical inventory inspection and even data center operations reviews. Find out more about the project services IBM provides for your IBM Infrastructure and across the data center.

Data center orchestration and management

Best practices for high IT service availability include strengthening service management, tightening end-to-end execution, and leveraging data analytics techniques to enable a shift of technical support from reactive to preventative. IBM Accelerated Value Program provides clients with a dedicated team focused on proactive orchestration at a worldwide, geographic and process level. Find out more about IBM Accelerated Value Program.

Networking deployment and performance

Mistakes in network installation and configuration can be a considerable source of downtime. Leverage IBM Technology Lifecycle Services to install and configure your networking solution.

IT service availability and resiliency assessment

The High Availability Center of Competency (HACoC) taps technology and service management experts from across IBM and the industry to assess clients' IT infrastructures and delivery practices and collaborate to define the strategy and solutions needed to help them reach their availability goals.

Operational resiliency

IT support and services can be an important element in the ongoing requirements for operational resiliency. Find out how proactive support, support insights and a holistic data center support strategy can help you drive operational resiliency.

Data center insights
Predictive insights to solve potential IT problems and unplanned downtime IBM Support Insights is a powerful, AI-enabled tool that improves IT reliability and streamlines asset management. It provides preventive maintenance analytics to help your team solve IT issues before they become emergencies. Use it to simplify management of your IT infrastructure and reduce gaps in support coverage. Explore IBM Support Insights
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Networking and security support

Find out more about support and services for networking and security solutions.

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Software support

Discover more about support and services for IBM Infrastructure software, as well as select third-party software vendors.

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Technical University of Munich

Explore how IBM provided reliable support and maintenance on IBM Storage and IBM Power for the Technical University of Munich.

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Dekra

Learn how IBM designed, implemented, supported, and optimized an end-to-end solution for Dekra.

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