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IBM Testing Services National Test Center

A volatile, yet highly IBM National Test Center:

Highlights dynamic, environment A multitude of testing resources
More and more e-business applications Whether your enterprise requires appli-
Increases the productivity, are moving to the Web at breakneck cation or end-to-end system testing,
manageability and cost-effec- speed, leaving enterprise systems IBM Global Services can address your
tiveness of your information vulnerable to risks associated with new performance, scalability, reliability and
technology (IT) infrastructure technology and business change. Elimi- availability needs with extensive testing
nating system problems before they can capabilities, including performance,
Addresses your performance, impact business processes is the key to stress, system integration, regression,
scalability, reliability and promoting seamless operations. Testing recovery, network, Internet/intranet,
availability needs with end-to- has therefore become paramount to storage area network (SAN)/storage
end testing capabilities the success of any e-business initiative, performance, Enterprise Resource
across industries. Planning (ERP), EURO dollar and server
Takes advantage of comprehen- consolidation testing. Consulting and
sive consulting and assessment IBM Testing Services operates from a assessment services include:
services national testing center in Gaithersburg,
Maryland and 16 regional facilities — • Test process consulting
Utilizes sophisticated testing consisting of multivendor IT systems, • Business continuity consulting
tools, leading-edge equipment networks and application environments. • Performance management
and network technologies from Our testing services are customizable • Capacity planning
IBM and other leading vendors and designed to help optimize productiv- • Server consolidation porting services
ity, manageability and cost-effectiveness • SAN proof-of-concept services and
Furnishes exceptional storage within your IT operation. briefing center
capacities and client-centric, • Disaster recovery.
confidential testing services
 IBM testing centers employ the For network redundancy, IBM testing
following tools to verify accurate, centers use multiple local access
efficient testing: carriers like Verizon Communications
Corporation and MFS Network Tech-
• Automated testing nologies, Inc., as well as multiple
• Load driving interexchange carriers such as AT&T
• Performance monitoring Corporation, Worldcom, Inc. and Sprint
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• Network analysis Corporation. In addition, multiple
• Other vendor-supplied tools. Synchronous Optical NETwork (SONET) IBM Global Services
rings with diverse fiber routes are avail- Route 100
Somers, NY 10589
able to connect multiple central offices;
Equipment installations for Post Office Protocol (POP) are used for Produced in the United States of America
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your unique needs interexchange carriers.
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Featuring sophisticated technologies
from IBM and other industry-leading IBM, the IBM logo, the e-business logo, AS/400,
Enterprise Storage Server, Netfinity and RS/6000
vendors, IBM testing centers are High interoperability,
are trademarks or registered trademarks of
equipped with more than 10,000 MIPS confidential client services International Business Machines Corporation in
of processor capacity, as well as 40 With enough fiber and cable collectively the United States, other countries, or both.
terabytes of disk storage for host-centric installed to reach from the Atlantic to Sun is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems
testing. Equipment installations include: the Pacific Oceans — and back again — Inc. in the United States, other countries, or both.
our national test center in Gaithersburg
Other company, product and service names may
• Processor, disk and networking has the capacity to cart and store 30,000 be trademarks or service marks of others.
equipment — IBM, Sun® Microsystems, tape cartridges. Most of the equipment
References in this publication to IBM products
Inc., EMC Corporation, Cisco Systems, in the Gaithersburg interoperability or services do not imply that IBM intends to
Inc., Cabletron Systems, Inc., 3Com test facility has an any-to-any switching make them available in all countries in which
Corporation, Lucent Technologies Inc., capability that involves 16,000 plus IBM operates.
and others networking, 10,000 plus fiber/cable The IBM Integrated Technology Services
• Storage capabilities — IBM Enterprise and 50,000 plus peripheral equipment organization in the United States, part of IBM
Storage ServerTM switch points. Such a range and Global Services design and development of
• Fiber connectivity equipment—Switches, magnitude of switch points allows for services offerings, is registered to the ISO 9001,
1994 international quality standard.
hubs, routers, gateways and bridges considerable flexibility in configuring
from IBM, McData Corporation, EMC and a testing environment to meet your dis-
Crossroads Systems, Inc. tinct enterprise needs.
• Additional multivendor equipment
capabilities — Intel Pentium® PCs, In addition, the around-the-clock
RS/6000,® Digital Equipment Company, operational facility provides private
AS/400,® Hewlett-Packard Company, testing operations suites that are badge
Sun® Microsystems, Inc., Compaq Com- accessible and unique to each client.
puter Corporation, and Netfinity.® For your added protection, further
security measures include motion
detectors, physical slab-to-slab barriers,
Sophisticated network around-the-clock onsite security per-
connectivity sonnel, camera security systems and
Multiple T3 and T1 lines link our a fire-resistant tape vault system.
Gaithersburg facility to the Internet
and 16 regional testing centers in Atlanta, IBM Global Financing offerings are
Boston, Boulder, Chicago, Costa Mesa, available to help you implement IBM
Dallas, Detroit, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Global Services projects. Flexible pay-
San Jose, Seattle, Sterling Forest, Tampa, ment structures can help you spread
Toronto, Valley Forge, and Washington, DC. upfront costs and better match your
IBM testing centers also maintain high- payments to service benefits.
speed intranet connectivity via ATM
wide area networks (WANs) using T3
and OC3 trunks. Local area network For more information
(LAN) and virtual LAN (VLAN) connec- To learn more about IBM Global
tivity is furnished with 100BaseT/Gigabit Services, contact your IBM sales repre-
Ethernet switches with L2, L3 and L4 sentative or Business Partner or visit:
switch routers.
ibm.com/services

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