supermicro integrates ibm spectrum software for turnkey datacenter solutions

Supermicro Integrates IBM Spectrum Software to Deliver Total SolutionsTurnkey Solutions

Supermicro, global leader in server technology, design and manufacturing, has signed an Embedded Solution Agreement (ESA) around IBM’s Spectrum family of storage and infrastructure products. With this bold act, Supermicro has quietly yet purposefully begun integrating IBM enterprise-grade software solutions with its industry-leading networking, storage and server hardware.

Supermicro has recently introduced a Hyperconverged Appliance with IBM Spectrum Accelerate. The rapidly growing hyperconverged storage market now includes a new branded product offering designed to deliver enterprise storage features to hybrid cloud customers for ‘on-prem’ appliances.

Supermicro’s Hyperconverged Appliance with Spectrum Accelerate is ultra-flexible software defined block storage deployed fast, anywhere!

Supermicro is licensing IBM Spectrum software to provide turnkey, enterprise-grade computing and storage solutions to global customers

Supermicro Rack Solutions, bundled with IBM Spectrum software, under one contract, are now available to customers anywhere in the world at a fixed price and supported end-to-end by Supermicro

By bundling IBM Spectrum Accelerate™ with racked hardware solutions, Supermicro is providing its partners and customers with all the ingredients necessary to deploy, run and manage hyperconverged storage

Looking forward, Supermicro plans to extend its total solutions development with IBM into Big Data Analytics around Conductor with Spark

Diane Benjuya, 07/30/16,

Perhaps: Turnkey Solutions?


IBM Media/Legal doesn’t allow such concrete futures in our own blogs/PRs, not sure they’ll approve it in yours; also not sure your Legal will.


Must be careful to always use the full name; and with TM after Accelerate on the first instance



Thoughts: include a few sentences on the hyperconverged market

Supermicro is a fast-growing retail server hardware manufacturer in the midst of a rapid evolution into a very large, , multi-billion dollar server OEM. In order to not only accelerate revenue growth but multiply its current gross margins, Supermicro has employed a solutions strategy that is thoroughly provocative, visionary and disruptive all at once!

Supermicro has recently signed an Application Specific Licensing Agreement around IBM’s Spectrum fFamily of storage and infrastructure products. With this bold act, Supermicro has quietly yet purposefully begun integrating IBM enterprise-grade software solutions with its industry-leading networking, storage and server hardware.

Through its new relationship with IBM, Supermicro will aims to accelerate its sales cycle, improve profitability and client value by leveraging IBM software technology and expertise. Laser focused on customer satisfaction, Supermicro has reinvented itself as a solutions provider to new markets, starting with such as Hyperconverged Storage and Big Data Analytics with much more to come in the near future. Single point of customer order and end-to-end support are both pleasantly surprising features in Supermicro’s budding solutions portfolio.

Let’s take a look at the first solution resulting from the new collaboration between Supermicro and the IBM Spectrum family,…

Supermicro® Hyperconverged Appliance with IBM® Spectrum AccelerateTM


Cool word but sounds hype-y

There are many good reasons for Supermicro and IBM to work together with compleimentary competitive advantages in the marketplace…b

And build a world-class hyperconverged appliance…


I would refrain from dumping slideware into the blog, for many reasons including: print is too small, too many visuals, and drags down the energy level. Need to choose a few, simplify them into some kind of graphic, and use just the graphic rather than a rectangular slide. Also: consider dropping in 1-2 still frames from the video


Who’s the audience? Analysts? Your competition? Or our mutual customers, with the others along for the ride? I think we should rephrase a sentence like this to talk about something like : “complementary value for our mutual customers.”

Focused on very popular computing industry use-cases…

And the Supermicro solutions are ready to order…as in today!

Supermicro and IBM have clearly built a true winning solution…only the first of many great results!

It even made Youtube…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP9H-VbHQuY&feature=youtu.be

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP9H-VbHQuY&feature=youtu.be

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