IBM Infrastructure Management & Optimization
One Platinum IBM Partner Across Your Entire IBM Estate — from hardware to IBM managed IT services, resilience, cloud migration, and more.
IBM Managed Services you can Trust
Your IBM estate should help your business move faster, stay resilient, and maximize the very best of cutting-edge innovation. Park Place Technologies helps organizations like yours modernize, optimize, and protect your IBM infrastructure with unbeatable expertise to support every stage of its lifecycle.
With more than 40 years of IBM heritage and as one of the largest, award-winning IBM IT infrastructure services specialists worldwide, we enable organizations to unlock more value from their investments than ever before.
Our Range of IBM Infrastructure Management Services
Power Managed Services
Support your IBM Power estate across its complete lifecycle. Park Place combines hardware refreshes, maintenance, lifecycle extensions, managed services, resilience, modernization, and cloud migration expertise, helping you make the most impactful investment decisions while protecting the critical workloads your business already depends on.
AIX Managed Services
Strengthen the performance, security, and resilience of your AIX environment with specialist support across the operating system and wider IBM Power platform. Park Place reduces operational pressure while helping you plan for modernization or cloud.
i Managed Services
Keep your critical IBM i applications reliable, secure, and ready for the future. Park Place provides the specialist skills and day-to-day management needed to reduce risk, strengthen resilience, and modernize without disrupting the business logic you trust.
Power Cloud Solution
Remove the burden of owning and refreshing IBM Power infrastructure with a secure, managed cloud destination for IBM i, AIX, and Linux on Power.
Park Place provides the platform, specialist service, resilience, and ongoing roadmap, giving you a flexible foundation for innovation, modernization, and future growth.
Refresh
From IBM Power Systems and Storage refreshes to infrastructure upgrades and migrations, we help build the right platform for what’s next.
Operate & Manage
Keep IBM i, AIX and Storage environments running at peak performance with remote managed services, monitoring, support, and operational expertise.
Optimize
Identify opportunities to reduce costs, improve efficiency, maximize value from existing IBM infrastructure investments, and leverage expert technical support for IBM i, AIX and IBM Storage software environments
Modernize
Modernize IBM workloads through the Park Place PowerCloud, storage transformation, and migration services that reduce risk and minimize disruption.
Transform
Unlock new business capabilities through application modernization, AI readiness, cloud transformation, and strategic technology innovation.
Extend
Maximize the life and value of existing IBM infrastructure with lifecycle extension, IBM third-party maintenance, spare parts, and support services that reduce cost without compromising reliability.
Retire & Decommission
Retire aging platforms, migrate workloads, and simplify complex estates through structured transition, secure IT asset disposition (ITAD), and decommissioning services.
Unmatched IBM Infrastructure Services Across the Entire Lifecycle
Many providers have the capability to support you, but with only one part of the IBM journey.
Some focus on hardware. Some focus on cloud. Others focus on support.
Our IBM global services help organizations optimize, protect, modernize, and transform IBM environments through a single, integrated, value-led portfolio of services.
How We Help IBM Customers
We manage, optimize, and modernize regulated, “crown jewel” workloads powering everything from payroll, HR, and finance systems, to ERP, customer platforms, supply chain operations, and industry-specific applications.
IBM customers rarely need a single service in isolation. They need a partner that understands how infrastructure decisions connect — from hardware refresh and IBM i and AIX support to IBM FlashSystem and Scale storage, IBM PowerVS migration, resilience, maintenance, and managed operations. We are an IBM managed service provider that helps customers make those decisions with confidence, bringing together the people, services, and global delivery capability to support critical environments today while preparing them for what comes next.
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40+ years of world class IBM heritage -
1,700+ IBM certifications
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1,400+ IBM LPARs under management globally
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60 dedicated IBM i and AIX specialists
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31 production data centers
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Global delivery and support capabilities
How we Solve your IBM Challenges
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Customer Challenge: A long-standing IBM i customer had lost internal platform knowledge after a key system administrator retired.
Customer Success JourneyIBM i operations review → Managed Services → Proactive monitoring and specialist supportWhat this helped achieveReduced reliance on scarce internal skills, improved operational continuity, and gave the customer access to IBM specialists whenever needed.
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Customer Challenge: A customer needed to exit its data center while keeping critical IBM Power workloads stable and available.
Customer Success JourneyOn-premises IBM Power assessment → Migration Services → Park Place PowerCloudWhat this helped achieveMoved business-critical workloads into a more flexible, resilient operating model, shifting investment from capital expenditure to a more predictable OpEx-based approach while reducing migration risk and avoiding unnecessary disruption.
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Customer Challenge: A customer who was facing end-of-support risk needed to protect its existing IBM investment while planning its next move.
Customer Success JourneyHardware refresh planning → Storage refresh → Third-party maintenanceWhat this helped achieveExtended the value of existing platforms, reduced immediate replacement pressure, and maintained support while shaping a longer-term modernization path.
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Customer Challenge: A customer saw rapid AI adoption consume available storage capacity faster than planned, putting pressure on core IBM workloads and future growth.
Example IBM JourneyIBM FlashSystem storage requirement review → Commercial options analysis → IBM Flash storage hardware procurementWhat this helped achieveSecured the IBM Flash storage capacity needed to support AI-driven demand, protect performance for critical workloads, and achieve a more favorable commercial outcome.
Benefits We Deliver for IBM Customers
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Infrastructure ready for AI and future innovation
Frequently Asked Questions
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Do you only support IBM Power Systems environments?
No. We support the wider IBM ecosystem, including IBM Power, IBM i, AIX, Linux on Power, IBM Storage, FlashSystem, Storage Scale, IBM PowerVS, and hybrid cloud environments, helping organizations manage, modernize, and optimize their infrastructure throughout its lifecycle.
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Can Park Place help us modernize our IBM estate?
Yes. Whether you’re exploring IBM PowerVS, hybrid cloud, infrastructure refreshes or broader modernization initiatives, we help assess the available options and build a roadmap aligned to your business objectives.
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Do you provide managed services for IBM infrastructure?
Yes. Our managed services cover IBM Power, IBM i, AIX, Linux on Power and IBM Storage environments, alongside monitoring, operational support, resilience services, and infrastructure management.
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How do I know whether to refresh, modernize, or extend my existing infrastructure?
This “fork in the road” moment is a challenge for many IBM customers. Our specialists evaluate your current platform, operational requirements, and future goals to help determine whether a refresh, managed services, cloud adoption, or lifecycle extension strategy is the best path forward.
