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IBM Power Systems Solution Edition for Scale-Out Cloud IBM Systems and Technology Solution Brief IBM Power Systems and Storage Solution Edition for Scale-Out Cloud Open source, Linux solution for scale-out data virtualization and cloud Cloud computing is no longer a question of “if” for IT organizations, but Highlights rather one of when, how and for which workloads. Cloud is widely understood to be an IT delivery model that can improve IT asset utilization, Allows open infrastructures to scale out intelligently, with less hardware, flexibility and responsiveness while reducing complexity and lowering power and cooling requirements costs. With these benefits come many complexities which need to be and better economics, using over considered as organizations define and implement a cloud delivery strategy. twice the bandwidth from previous Some technology options can hinder the efficiency and costs saving generations potential of the cloud by impeding interoperability, hampering workload Built-in data virtualization delivers performance, exposing security vulnerabilities and limiting scalability. seamless storage management from a single control point with no Building on the performance advantaged IBM POWER8™ architecture, the impact to applications Power Systems™ and Storage Solution Edition for Scale-Out Cloud Flexibility, agility and provides a superior cost effective platform with open source PowerKVM interoperability with open source, hypervisor, powerful data virtualized with IBM Storwize ® V7000, and community-driven virtualization and a single pane of glass for OpenStack-based cloud management for a single pane of glass cloud heterogeneous cloud management management. The Solution Edition reduces the timeframe for infrastructure deployments from months to days with integrated infrastructure and automated provisioning of virtualized resources. It ensures optimal cost effectiveness with Power scale out systems, automated Easy Tier® for flash and disk storage and Real-Time Compression™ that can store up to 5x as much data in the same physical space. The Solution Edition for Scale-Out Cloud helps customers get up and running quickly with no risk on an integrated system which is pre-built, tested and supported. Solution Editions also have the advantage of being configurable for customers’ needs. The Solution can be customized to a 1 or 2 socket Linux server with 10-core POWER8 processor modules, a choice of IBM storage, and a choice of Linux operating environments including Red Hat® Enterprise Linux, SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server or Ubuntu®. A Reference Configuration TechBook is available to guide implementers © Copyright IBM Corporation 2014 though the steps to install and configure the Scale-Out Cloud solution in your data center. Additionally, an IBM Lab Services engagement, IBM Systems and Technology Group specifically designed to assist with Scale-Out Cloud solution Route 100 Somers, NY 10589 implementations, is available for organizations looking for additional assistance. Produced in the United States of America December 2014 For organizations or Service Providers looking to get up and running IBM, the IBM logo, ibm.com, Power Systems, and quickly on powerful, reliable and cost effective virtualized POWER8 are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the infrastructure, the Solution Edition for Scale Out Cloud delivers United States, other countries, or both. If these and other quickly and easily and without risk. IBM trademarked terms are marked on their first occurrence in this information with a trademark symbol (® or ™), these symbols indicate U.S. registered or common law trademarks owned by IBM at the time this information was published. Why IBM? Such trademarks may also be registered or common law trademarks in other countries. A current list of IBM has a long history of building systems with exemplary reliability, IBM trademarks is available on the web at “Copyright and scalability and serviceability. IBM Power Systems and Storage trademark information” at ibm.com/legal/copytrade.shtml Solution Edition for Scale-Out Cloud is built on that tradition. It was Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds in the United States, developed on an enterprise class virtualization platform which has other countries or both. evolved from that heritage and still provides superior results today. Ubuntu is a registered trademarks of Canonical Ltd. SUSE is a IBM Power Systems and IBM Storage are the market leaders for registered trademark of SUSE LLC in the United States and mission-critical information systems and storage, and use those other countries. “Red Hat,” is a registered trademark of Red platforms to provide a pre-configured, purpose-built, easy to use, Hat, Inc. in the US and other countries. The OpenStack™ Word Mark and OpenStack Logo are either registered entry-level private cloud. trademarks/service marks or trademarks/service marks of the OpenStack Foundation, in the United States and other countries and are used with the OpenStack Foundation’s permission. We are not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored For more information by the OpenStack Foundation, or the OpenStack community. To learn more about the IBM Power Systems Solution Edition for This document is current as of the initial date of publication Scale-Out Cloud, please contact your IBM representative or IBM and may be changed by IBM at any time. 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