Experience technology first hand through demonstrations, live testing and much more.
The Mainline Innovation Center features products and solutions from a variety of providers who are market leaders in data, collaboration and smarter computing.
Innovation Center Services Available to Customers
- Proof of Technology (POT)
- Proof of Concept (POC)
- Product Demonstrations
- Platform Migration planning
- Performance and capactiy planning
- Best Practices and industry standards
- Beta testing of vendor products and solutions
- Direct acces to vendor product teams and developers
- Shared knowledge base for our customers through our
consultants working onsite
Supported products and solutions:
IBM
- IBM z16 Mainframe
- System Z Capacity Studies
- z/OS Linux Containers
- OpenShift with KVM
- IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center
- POWER9 Platform
- IBM Cloud™ Pak for Data
- AIX
- IBM i
- Linux on IBM Power
- Red Hat
- SUSE
- PowerVM
- PowerKVM
- PowerVC
- Cognitive Computing
System Platforms
- IBM – AIX, IBM i, Z/OS
- IBM Fusion HCI Appliance
- Microsoft
- VMware
- VMware vSphere
- VMware vCenter
- VMware vCloud Suite
- VMware Horizon
- Red Hat
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Red Hat OpenShift
- Red Hat Satellite Server
- Red Hat CloudForms
- Red Hat Ansible
- SUSE
- Citrix
Hyper-Converged / Converged Platforms
- Cisco UCS
- Dell EMC Hyper-Converged with Nutanix
Storage
- IBM
- DS8884
- Spectrum Virtualize
- Spectrum Accelerate (Software Defined Storage)
- IBM FlashSystem 9200
- Dell PowerStore
- Veeam Backup & Replication
- Actifio
- Cohesity Secondary Storage Platform
Networking
- Juniper
- Cisco
- Palo Alto
- Dell Technologies
- Fortinet
SAN
- Brocade SAN Fabric
- Cisco MDS 9148 Fabric
Software
- Business Analytics
- IBM Cloud™ Pak for Data
- IBM Cognos
- Hadoop Cluster
- IBM SPSS
- Information Management
- IBM DB2
- SQL
- Informix
- IBM InfoSphere
- IBM SmartCloud Analytics – Predictive Insights
- Security Management
- IBM Big Fix
- Denodo Data Virtualization
- IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager
- Centrify (Identity Management)
- Storage and Data Management and Protection
- IBM Spectrum Control
- IBM Spectrum Protect
- IBM Spectrum Insights
- Integration & Optimization
- IBM WebSphere