When it comes to servers for your business, IBM Power Systems are hard to beat. Evolving from IBM’s highly-regarded AS/400 and RS/6000 machines, IBM Power Systems offer cutting edge technology, reliable performance and superb value for money.
If you’re thinking of purchasing an IBM Power server, or you’re looking for someone to supply support for your existing set-up, choose carefully. To get the best out of your server, and to ensure that downtime is kept to an absolute minimum, you’ll need a well-established supplier that can provide high-quality support.
Life IT  are well-established IT consultants, offering expert service UK-wide. When it comes to IBM systems, their knowledge is second to none. Here’s how they can help you…
Buying your server
As an IBM Premier Business Partner, Life IT can help you choose and buy the right IBM Power server for you. They’ll help you pick the right hardware to suit your needs, and can even help you arrange financing via IBM Global Financing. When you combine IBM interest free finance with improvements in performance and lower running costs you’ll find that the latest technology pays for itself!
Installing your IBM Power server
Once you’ve bought your hardware, the next step is installation. Even if you have an in-house IT team, server installation is best left to experts such as Life IT. They’ll handle the implementation and configuration, ensuring your server is set up to deliver the best, most efficient performance to suit your needs.
Servicing your IBM Power server
So your server’s been successfully installed, configured and it’s up and running smoothly. But that’s not the end of it – all servers require regular maintenance, including software upgrades, and program fixes to ensure that everything continues to run as smoothly and efficiently as possible.
Again, your IT department may be able to deal with the day-to-day running – but for the bigger things such as high availability, performance tuning and security it’s highly recommended that you utilise the services of well-established experts such as Life IT.
Their accredited team are knowledgeable in all aspects of IBM Power Systems, including hardware, operating systems and applications. Help from their friendly experts is just a phone call away – and if you need it, your support contract can even cover you for out-of-hours or on-site support. Whatever your needs are, Life IT can offer a flexible support contract to suit you.
Life IT – experts in IBM Power Systems
As you can see, when it comes to IBM Power Systems, well-established specialists Life IT provide a friendly, helpful end-to-end service. Their knowledgeable staff can help you choose your server, ensure it’s properly installed and configured, and provide ongoing support. And as IBM Premier Business Partners, you can rest assured you’re in safe hands.
Life IT operate UK-wide, so wherever you are, you can take advantage of their expertise, skills and high-quality service.
To find out more about IBM Power Systems and Life IT’s full range of products and services, visit www.lifeit.co.uk.


What others say about us

“Having migrated from IBM Domino to Microsoft Office 360 (Business Cloud), we are delighted with the results – and have 1000 happy internal customers who much prefer Outlook to Domino. Life IT were flexible, fair and supportive when schedules had to change due to other Gurit projects.  We had direct access to engineers and technical staff and a dedicated team who were easy to work with.  The whole project was done in a very friendly environment and I would definitely recommend Life IT for these sorts of migration projects.”

Henrikki Häkkänen,
Global IT Services Manager — Gurit Services AG

“Without the professional and expert support of Life IT, we wouldn’t have had the quality product we now have. They gently but insistently pushed the boundaries of our assumptions during the analysis phase, getting us to challenge our mind-sets and think outside the box. They then worked seamlessly as part of our team and delivered to time and to budget – no mean feat”.

James Hacking
Head of Technical Services—HCSS

“As we’d already invested significantly in Lotus Notes and Domino, a solution that built on our existing investment and skills was ideal. Life IT understood what was important to us and delivered a solution that met our needs. We’ve already seen the number of ‘distress calls’ to the sales office reduce as our sales managers can easily access customer data off line wherever they are and we’ve had positive feedback all round about the ability to update their call reports instantly on the road.”

Colin Mosley
Head of IT—Polyflor

“The Life IT solution has provided us with a significant reduction in support and maintenance costs and is an easy to use, more resilient and more easily maintainable system. As a business that handles thousands of transactions a day from 12 different own brand or white label websites it was vital that the whole process was seamless and, with the renewal of the support and maintenance contract from our existing supplier looming, it was also vital that the project came in on deadline. Life IT achieved this and more as they provided us with additional MI functionality and supported our staff whilst transferring their skills.’

Andrew Kirkham
Head of IT Development—DLR

“Life IT are doing a great job providing a very professional and efficient service. They are almost silently efficient and just get things done – only escalating issues when necessary. Their expertise in the AS400 is a key strength ensuring a real depth to their service and they keep us up to date with advances in technology too. So from an AS400 perspective I have very little to worry about.”

John Geary
IT Service Delivery Manager

“After the restructure I was left with a critical resource gap which quickly needed filling, having worked with Life IT before I gave them a call. Their response was swift and efficient. They now work as a virtual Center Parcs help desk team providing a strength and depth of support. Their flexible working based on a time bank system is real value for money. So not only do I get an expert and efficient service, I have reduced my resource costs!”

Kerry Moakes
Head of IT—Center Parcs

“We wanted flexible support to ensure 24/7 cover and Life IT worked with us to deliver this. Life IT has become integrated into the Bentley way of working and their role has expanded into looking at the technical side of the application as well as the support. “Our relationship has been built up over a significant period of time and both sides have worked hard to develop a supplier/customer relationship that can be used as a model throughout Bentley. We are now in the position where we have a pro-active partnership, Life IT are treated as part of Bentley, and that is a credit to them”.

Chris Sayers
Senior IS Manager—Bentley Motors

Support options

From full 24 by 7 operations to month end support and holiday cover, we can tailor a fixed price solution to fit seamlessly with your IT department.

So we offer a wide range of technical support services including IBM i, System P, Domino and SQL Server, to proactively monitor the availability and performance of your systems within a fixed price contract.

The key to our Application Support is that it’s ‘tailored’ to your exact requirements, with the flexibility to increase the resources and hours of cover as required.

With a Life support contract, you have access to a multi-skilled team with hardware, operating system and application skills as well as the latest IBM i certifications.

We provide any combination of application, operational and technical support, no matter how current your environment is and no matter how long support is projected for.

Life IT offer bespoke managed Microsoft SQL Server support services which are tailored to our customer’s requirements to ensure their systems are optimized, stable and secure, as well as prepared for future upgrades and updates.

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