IBM® and APC collaborate together under a formal alliance agreement to provide innovative solutions to demanding facility infrastructure requirements. The alliance combines a global leader in critical power and cooling solutions with the comprehensive services capabilities of IBM. Together, the team delivers resilient, energy-efficient, and cost-effective data center solutions to support today’s IT environments.

Using pre-engineered, pre-configured, pre-manufactured and pre-tested components, the IBM Scalable Modular Data Center, which features APC's InfraStruXure® architecture, provides the necessary power, cooling, security and monitoring to help ensure high performance and availability of the IT utility. Standard components and simple design help reduce the deployment time and minimize downtime from human error often associated with custom designs. And, the modular approach keeps costs in check by enabling expansion as needed.

"The APC-IBM alliance is a great strategic match up: APC has the power and cooling aspects covered, and IBM has a long history of data center implementation expertise. The biggest benefit is that APC and IBM together offered much more than what they could have separately." - Richard Siedzik, Director of Computer and Telecommunication Services, Bryant University

For our joint enterprise customers, IBM and APC address the critical issues of high density in the data center with key software integrations and the IBM High Density Zone, which features APC’s scalable, modular InfraStruXure® architecture. The IBM High Density Zone allows clients to support higher density servers within their existing data center while quickly implementing an integrated, energy-efficient solution. The IBM High Density Zone can be used with IBM’s Tivoli® Active Energy Manager and interfaces with APC’s InfraStruXure® Central.

APC is a proud technology partner at the Executive Briefing Center, which is a world-class briefing facility for IBM clients and partners in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. At the center, visitors can see firsthand the energy-efficient IBM Scalable modular Data Center which features APC's InfraStruXure® architecture for data centers.