About Us

GlassHouse Systems Profile

GlassHouse Systems is an IBM Premier Business Partner, specializing in IBM System z9, IBM System z, System p and System x processors, open and high-end storage sybsystems, automated tape libraries, and Tivoli software. GlassHouse Systems believes that customers want full-service solutions, tailored to meet their needs at competitive prices. We provide installation planning, configuration analysis, performance analysis and implementation services for the following IBM products:

Processor Based Solutions

  • IBM System z processors
  • IBM System p processors
  • IBM System x processors
  • z/OS, z/VM, z/VSE, AIX, Linux
  • WebSphere
  • Tivoli
  • Lotus
  • Rational

SAN & Storage Solutions

  • TotalStorage Disk
  • DS4000 DS6000 DS8000
  • Enterprise Tape
  • TS7700 TS3400/3500 TS1120
  • Midrange Tape
  • TS3200 TS3310
  • Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM)

We are committed to delivering solutions with excellence, using our highly experienced personnel, with complete support from IBM as a premier IBM Business Partner.

 

We Help Customers Exploit System z, System p and System x Environments

Customers with installed IBM System z, p and x processors have the world's most flexible, powerful and robust environment and their fingertips. GlassHouse Systems is a Premier IBM Business Partner with the technical expertise to help you get the most out of your open mainframe systems. Our Planning & Design, Installation and Support skills are what you need to exploit the full power of your processing environment and get the edge on your competition.

GlassHouse Systems services and support solutions include:

  • Server installation, upgrades and maintenance
  • IBM System z
  • IBM System p
  • IBM System x
  • On Demand and virtualization solutions
  • Server and storage consolidation
  • CDAT studies, ALIGN methodology
  • High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions
  • Storage planning, installation, upgrades and management
  • IBM software planning and implementation:
  • DB2, WebSphere, Lotus, Tivoli
  • z/OS, z/VM, z/VSE
  • AIX
  • Security planning and tools implementation
  • Enterprise management
  • Technology architecture planning
  • Staging, integration, and rollout services

 

GlassHouse Systems Solutions

On Demand and virtualization solutions

  • Virtualization solutions based on optimal design for customer combinations of IBM and non-IBM technologies: System z and System p partitioning, VMware on IBM Blades and System x, workload management, and clustering.
  • Infrastructure simplification, cost containment, and improved utilization of IT resources within a heterogeneous environment.


Consolidation solutions

  • Datacenter and server consolidation, capacity planning using IBM CDAT, Align tools and techniques
  • Datacenter and Capacity planning, System z, System p, System x and IBM Bladecenter
  • Storage consolidation solutions using IBM TotalStorage products


High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions

  • Business continuity planning and implementation based on the 7 tiers of DR methodology using IBM Storage, Global & Metro Mirroring, HACMP/XD and TSM technologies


Implementation services

  • System z hardware installation and planning services
    • Technical Due Diligence
    • z/OS including Parallel Sysplex
    • z/VM & z/VSE
    • AIX
    • CICS, IMS, DB2, MQSeries, DFSMS
  • System p and System x hardware installation services
  • System p LPAR and VIO planning and setup, AIX deployment and customization
  • Implementation services for HACMP and AIX
  • Migration services for all platforms
  • IBM OpenPower and Blade, Linux and VMware implementation
  • TotalStorage solutions implementation services
  • TSM solutions and DR practice implementation services
  • IBM System x implementation
  • Linux implementation services
    • All platforms
    • SuSE, RedHat


Consolidation services

  • Review current customer infrastructure and server farms and develop Datacenter and server consolidation plans to improve the effectiveness of Operation, Maintenance and Performance
  • Conduction consolidation and capacity studies using IBM CDAT, Align tools and other techniques
  • Storage consolidation solutions using advantage IBM TotalStorage


Performance analysis

  • AIX performance tuning
  • z/OS capacity analysis and performance tuning
  • SAN and Storage hot-spots analysis and performance tuning
  • Best practice recommendations, capture and analyze performance data, providing reports and recommendations on system performance and tuning


Business Continuity

  • High Availability – Fault-tolerant, failure-resistant infrastructure supporting continuous application processing. HACMP/XD, TotalStorage metro mirroring, reliable (RAS designed) System z, p and x servers and TotalStorage hardware.
  • Continuous Operations – Non-disruptive backups and system maintenance coupled with continuous availability of applications. TotalStorage Flashcopy, TSM.
  • Disaster Recovery – Protection against unplanned outages, such as disasters, through reliable and predictable recovery. Metro mirroring, TSM Disaster Recovery, Rapid Data recovery


VMware – virtualization

  • IT organizations are under pressure to:
  • Increase system maintenance efficiency
  • Rapidly deploy new systems to address business needs