IBM Systems Jump start next generation applications with IBM LinuxONE Leverage open technology solutions to meet the demands of the new application economy Introduction Meet the demand for a new application economy Mobile applications are truly becoming the primary face of many compa- nies. If an organization’s mobile app is unreliable, or the user has a bad experience, it will have a direct impact on the overall perception of that company in the customer’s mind. For example, in 2015, there are more than 7 billion mobile cellular subscriptions worldwide.1 Leading companies are seizing the opportunity to build, integrate and support the next generation of applications. They’re using mobile, cloud and big data analytics in new, more effective ways to drive better business outcomes and competitive differentiation. To support these strategic efforts, companies need a flexible and cost-efficient IT architecture to gain the highest levels of reliability, security and performance. Although many organizations have already made large investments in IT systems to meet this demand, they can not afford to continually add new servers and software licenses to keep pace with growth. Right now, C-level IT leaders, infrastructure and operations executives, enterprise and solution architects, developers, and more are exploring better ways to strike the right balance between controlling cost, complexity and risk while ensuring they have the agility to proactively deliver innovative applications and services that drive competitive advantage and market- place leadership. IBM Systems Source: Black Duck, 2015 Future of Open Source Survey Results 64% 78% of of companies participate 67% of companies companies run on in Open Source projects w/ > 5k employees Open Source 66% Of companies Less than 3% the numbers build software Plan to start own external don’t use OSS by 39% OSS project on Open 88% in any way Source of companies to increase 47% To release internal tools & open source projects as OSS 50% of companies ource usage contributions say that more than half their in the next 2-3 Expect to reduce barriers engineers are working on years 53% to employee participation open source projects Open S Figure 1. The future of open source, Black Duck, 2015 As seen in Figure 1, many of the world’s most innovative orga- Unleash the full potential of Linux with IBM LinuxONE. nizations are using Linux and open source technology solutions Linux has been the world’s fastest growing server operating to deliver customer-facing, revenue-driving applications that systems for a number of years and is now a major player in the serve millions of customers, clients and citizens. global IT market. A Linux infrastructure has to be efficient, secure, adaptive and integrated. It must be designed to handle However, as Linux and open source deployments move from the explosive growth of mobile clients, be able to leverage vast niche projects to being more pervasive in the data center to amounts of data, and provide deep, real-time insights at the support the business, it is imperative that these applications be point for greatest business impact—all deployed within a secure fully supported by enterprise-grade capabilities such as nondis- and resilient cloud-ready environment. ruptive scalability, unparalleled availability and continuous data protection. This is especially important for business-critical IBM clients rely on the enterprise-grade platform for Linux applications—the solutions that support an entire organization technology as a trustful, reliable and highly secure system to and require 24x7 availability. confidently deploy business-essential applications, optimize operating costs and achieve seamless infrastructure growth. For any business, outages impacting a business-critical applica- Building on the successful experiences of thousands of customer tion or server infrastructure can be costly in terms of lost reve- engagements and deployments, IBM has delivered a new port- nue, missed opportunity and reduced employee productivity. folio of systems, solutions and services called IBM LinuxONE. To a client’s customers, when applications become unavailable, that loss of services can diminish the individual experience, IBM® LinuxONE™ systems and solutions provide users with causing a negative effect on loyalty, potentially leading to a flexible yet powerful infrastructure that helps ensure that customer attrition. Meeting the demands of customers and a business receives the performance, reliability, security and service-level agreements (SLAs) hinges on server reliability, processing power it needs to address increasingly sophisticated uptime and manageability. Having the right infrastructure and demanding application requirements. in place will provide an organization with agility and room for growth. 2 IBM Systems Combining one of the industry’s most advanced, trusted and high-performance systems for business-critical applications with Linux technology, IBM LinuxONE offers you a solution that is: ●● Open: Choose the tools and applications you love ●● Flexible: Meet demand with virtually limitless scale ●● Simple: Fewer servers, less complexity lower cost ●● Efficient: Get unparalleled utilization and speed ●● Trusted: Embedded security and services that never stop IBM LinuxONE Emperor The IBM LinuxONE Emperor™ system offers the necessary capabilities and processing power to be that Linux infrastruc- ture. It can protect sensitive transactions to minimize business risk and client exposure, while providing the performance needed to help deliver on service level agreements (SLAs). IBM LinuxONE Emperor can provide exceptional customer experience. Scalability and performance The IBM LinuxONE Emperor allows for a simple Linux infra- structure approach. It is available with up to 141 configurable IBM LinuxONE is a responsive service delivery platform cores for performance and scaling advantages, supporting capable of provisioning new virtual Linux servers in seconds. up to 8,000 virtual Linux servers on a single footprint. The IBM LinuxONE environment allows users to share and That means that the virtualization capabilities in a single over-commit system resources to meet client expectations for IBM LinuxONE Emperor system can result in a less unlimited access to existing and new services. IBM LinuxONE complex Linux infrastructure with fewer components, less supports multiple Linux Distributions such as Red Hat management, less space requirements and lower software costs (RHEL), SUSE (SLES) and Canonical (Ubuntu). Virtualization than x86 servers. For compared environments, it is estimated capabilities are delivered by KVM or IBM z/VM® hypervisors. that a cloud environment on a IBM LinuxONE Emperor The OpenStack support for KVM and z/VM allows for cloud- will have a 32 percent lower total cost of ownership over three like management, with third-party tools such as by VMware years than an x86 Cloud and a 60 percent lower total cost of vRealize Automation. 2 ownership over three years than a public cloud. 3 IBM Systems Impressive scalability—horizontal and vertical—is provided by Cryptography (ECC), providing algorithms with much shorter the virtualization alternatives to fully exploit the Emperor key lengths than RSA keys for similar cryptographic strength— capabilities to meet mobile and analytic demands. It can run at making ECC cryptography ideal for mobile and smartcards utilization rates as high as 100 percent for extended periods of where performance constraints may be a consideration. time, and users can scale capacity on demand. Having the Linux environment all in one server also means less time is spent on The IBM LinuxONE Emperor is a highly securable commer- managing the Linux infrastructure. cial server,3 built using groundbreaking technology organiza- tions can trust. An organization can run many Linux virtual IBM LinuxONE Emperor is based on the world’s fastest com- servers concurrently, leveraging IBM LinuxONE Emperor mercial processor running at 5.0 GHz, along with its unique capabilities for isolating and protecting each Linux virtual cache design allows for massive I/O throughput. It provides server as if they were running on physically separated servers. high availability in the memory subsystem using IBM’s proven Redundant Array of Independent Memory (RAIM) technology. Enterprise qualities of service The IBM LinuxONE Emperor enables enterprise-grade Linux Trustful, reliable and secure for less risk that is more robust and trusted for critical workloads, and has Within a single footprint, an IBM LinuxONE Emperor is higher performance and throughput to deliver a lower cost per designed to avoid or recover from failures to minimize business transaction. disruptions. High availability is realized through component reliability, redundancy and features that assist in providing Resiliency analytics for IBM LinuxONE is designed to offer fault avoidance and tolerance, as well as permitting concurrent near real-time diagnostics to help identifying potential prob- maintenance and repair. lems in the Linux environment. It is an analytics solution exe- cuted in firmware, which intelligently examines message logs Intrinsic platform security provides privacy for transactions for potential inconsistencies or anomalies. With this capability, and sensitive data, making the IBM LinuxONE Emperor a organizations can address IT problems quickly, minimize avail- securable enterprise application server and data vault. Each ability lapses and intervene before IT problems become