Tech Data Corp. expanded its relationship with International Business Machines Corporation to offer IBM's portfolio of products and services, including Power Systems and enterprise-class storage, to its channel of more than 14,000 data center partners within the United States through the Advanced Infrastructure Solutions Division. Available to authorized IBM Business Partners in the United States, the IBM Power Systems family is comprised of a comprehensive series of servers, systems software and solutions featuring the latest IBM POWER7 and POWER7+ processor technology.

Designed as the ultimate system for compute intensive workloads and ideally suited for business analytics, Power Systems can provide capabilities to help gain real time business insight and competitive advantage within a secure, flexible and scalable environment. Power Systems deliver a full range of offerings to help meet the needs of businesses of all sizes from entry systems including BladeCenter, Power Express and PowerLinux servers to the Power enterprise systems 770, 780 and 795. The IBM System Storage line comprises a wide range of advanced systems that exploit high-speed disk, solid state storage, and advanced tape to help customers manage the challenges of Big Data more efficiently and cost effectively.

In addition, robust storage virtualization and cloud offerings combine with a variety of integrated automation capabilities to round out the portfolio and help customers create smarter storage infrastructures.