Nearly 2,700 businesses move to IBM platforms since 2006, some 200 during first quarter this year.

IBM announced today that more than 200 customers have moved critical business workloads to IBM servers and storage systems from Sun, HP and other competitors in the first quarter, leading to the continued revenue and share growth gains that IBM is compiling throughout its hardware portfolio.

More and more, customers are turning to IBM for its long-term investments in workload-optimized systems and stable, innovative product roadmaps, producing systems that are designed for specific purposes, such as business analytics and ultra-high transactions processing.

Since IBM established its Migration Factory program four years ago to help clients move to IBM systems, nearly 2,700 customers have switched to IBM servers and storage. The vast majority of these migrations involve customers moving from Sun and HP to IBM, including 117 from Sun and 95 from HP so far this year.

The company also reported that 171 clients moved to IBM Power Systems competitive platforms in the first quarter alone, nearly three times the number of migrations recorded in the same period last year. Those wins resulted in more than $125 million in revenue for IBM.

A total of 107 customers selected IBM Power Systems over Sun systems, and 41 chose IBM over HP in the first quarter. Those displacements include customers moving from Sun SPARC and HP Itanium and PA-RISC platforms to IBM solutions.

IBM also recorded migration gains on each of its other hardware platforms—System x, System z and storage—in the first quarter. System x had 21 migration wins, System z 16 and storage 27, all against either HP or Sun.

In its recent first quarter earnings call, IBM reported:

• Storage revenue grew 11 percent year-over year, with double-digit growth in enterprise, mid-range and low-end products.
• System x server revenue grew 36 percent year-over-year, the fifth straight quarter of share gain in x86. System x blades grew 55 percent year-over-year and gained two points of share.
• Power Systems took share in both low-end and midrange systems and IBM expects share gains to continue in the high-end when new POWER7 products are announced later this year.
• New high-end products from Power Systems and System z will be introduced later this year, and should help accelerate revenue growth through the second half.

About Migration Factory

IBM has built a world-class migration capability to help customers move from their current non-IBM gear to IBM Systems—the IBM Migration Factory. The highly successful program includes competitive server assessments, migration services, and other resources. For more information, visit http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/migratetoibm/factory