IBM Power Systems for the Large Enterprise
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Smarter Systems for a Smarter Planet IBM Power Systems for the Large Enterprise – which ought to be the smartest aspect of the planet – is itself in need of an intelligence makeover. It’s not a problem with the technology per se. Servers, storage, software, networking gear and the Internet will all continue to become more powerful, affordable and available. The problem is how all this technology is currently configured into systems and the way data centers are designed and operated. The way applications are developed and deployed. The way servers are managed, upgraded and kept secure. The fact is the IT Highlights How can we make our systems smarter? systems that underpin so much of how the world works must y The most powerful and become much smarter. How scalable UNIX systems ever Over the past year IBM has much smarter? The average been facilitating a discussion on commodity server rarely uses y Designed to support the how our planet is becoming more than 6% of its available continuous operations of smarter. The world is becoming capacity. In some organizations, today's business critical more instrumented. Sensors as many as 30% of servers applications and RFID tags are being aren’t utilized at all; they simply embedded everywhere: in cars, y Integrated virtualization waste energy and valuable data appliances, food, cameras, without limits for large scale center space. IT energy roads, pipelines...even in consolidation and rapid consumption is expected to medicine and livestock. This provisioning of new double in the next five years. In instrumentation is workloads some cases, nearly 70% of interconnected into an “internet companies’ IT budgets can be y Dramatic expansion of data of things” …with the internet devoted to managing, center capacity within growing from just connecting maintaining, securing and existing energy and floor people to connecting devices, upgrading their systems rather space over a trillion networked things than building new capabilities, creating information at an services and applications. y Offered in flexible systems exponential rate. And buried in configurations from Blade to the resulting mountains of data This is creating a mandate for the Power 795 all supporting is information that can be mined new systems. Systems that can UNIX, Linux and IBM i and turned into jewels of reduce operating costs while applications intelligence and insights that can enabling business flexibility for be leveraged to deliver new growth and change. Systems services to customers more that enable the performance and efficiently and effectively. availability required for today’s new applications and services. But you might be surprised to Smarter systems for a smarter learn that information technology planet. unrivaled success in mainframe Smarter systems must: systems to greater flexibility from modular system designs and • Scale quickly and capacity on demand —a Power efficiently to manage and solution can help you get the analyze large amounts of most from your IT assets so end information, respond to users are enabled quickly surges in demand and through a cost-effective launch new applications and infrastructure with around-the- services in minutes or days clock availability. • Optimize performance at a virtual machine to address differing requirements Businesses around the world are Power is integrated value across multiple workloads moving to Power Systems in order to: • Flexibly adapt to changing A totally integrated approach to requirements and demands - the design, development, and flowing resources where • Maximize return on testing of each and every Power needed instantly for high investment: IBM designs and server ensures the resiliency utilization and Return on develops the core technologies required for today’s IT Investment in Power Systems and delivers them through a reliable road infrastructure. All POWER7® • Avoid downtime by being map for both hardware and server models include innovative highly reliable, available and systems software. reliability, availability and resilient • Reduce cost and increase serviceability features that help • Save energy by intelligently flexibility: IBM's unique 40-year you avoid unplanned downtime. balancing performance history of virtualization And, with Capacity on Demand, needs with efficiency leadership is delivered on Power Hot-Node Add and Active requirements Systems through PowerVM™ Memory Expansion—Power • Automate management technologies that enable clients Systems enterprise servers tasks to save on labor and to dramatically reduce costs by ensure you can keep your most staffing for administration “virtualizing everything” in the important applications available, and management and shift data center. even as you add capacity to resources to more strategic • Get consistent and handle new business demands. projects predictable performance: Power Systems delivers high Power Systems are also Reducing costs and performing processors and optimized with the ability to complexity, improving system scalability with securely run multiple ROI and increasing leadership benchmarks applications on AIX, i and Linux achieved in a virtualized operating systems on a single flexibility environment. server—so you can manage fewer systems with lower cost These are the benchmarks that and higher utilization. No longer matter on a smarter planet. According to IDC, Power do you need to manage complex Clients using IBM Power Systems leads in worldwide and inefficient server farms with 1 Systems™ can deploy UNIX server revenue share. In each server dedicated to a applications more affordably, addition, with the introduction of single application or operating lower their administration and POWER7, there has been an environment. Now you can facilities costs and create a acceleration in client migrations consolidate workloads and higher performance more to Power Systems through the significantly reduce costs responsive and resilient IBM Migration Factory in order to throughout your infrastructure, infrastructure than those who take advantage of the while dramatically improving use other UNIX® or x86 exceptional performance, your ability to meet changing systems. scalability, virtualization and processing demands. resilience of POWER® From Power systems renowned processor-based systems and Power Systems software options performance and scalability, Power Systems Software™. enable you to manage both reliability and virtualization physical and virtual capability inspired by IBM’s environments, including the 2 capability to control data center include Processor Instruction Power Systems energy usage and orchestrate Retry, Alternate Processor Software: processing resources to better Recovery, Partition Availability meet business goals. And, priority, Live Application Mobility, Completing the Power Power solutions are designed to and Live Partition Mobility. Advantage provide you with a road map to These features are designed to continuous availability of help enable you to eliminate mission-critical applications— systems related planned and Deploying Power Systems even when an expected or unplanned outages Software technologies enables unexpected interruption occurs. businesses to fully exploit Power Systems servers. Realize the Power is workload benefits of leadership Power Systems: optimization IBM PowerVM virtualization with Modular, scalable, AIX, IBM i and Linux operating resilient systems on a single server—as POWER7 processor-based well as IBM PowerHA™ for systems—the first generation of availability, and IBM Systems systems built for a smarter Today's POWER7 systems Director for energy, security and planet—offer balanced systems combine industry-leading platform management. IBM’s designs that automatically performance, scalability and integrated approach to optimize workload performance modularity to enable you to get developing the Systems and and capacity and either a the most from your investment Systems Software together system or virtual machine level. and build a flexible, responsive enables unique benefits that Features include: infrastructure that easily adapts deliver the higher system and grows based on your utilization, availability and business needs. With a • TurboCore™ for maximum per flexibility that clients have come virtualization hypervisor built into core performance for databases to enjoy with Power Systems. every Power System, all • MaxCore for incredible performance benchmarks are parallelization and high capacity achieved in a virtualized throughput environment, unlike competitive • Intelligent threading technology systems that can be subject to to utilize more threads when lower performance when using workloads benefit third-party virtualization • Intelligent Cache technology to software. optimize cache utilization, flowing it from core to core And now IBM has deployed a full • Intelligent Energy optimization range of Power systems from with EnergyScale™ technology Blades and 2U rack systems to to reduce energy consumption the industry’s most powerful and or maximize performance scalable UNIX system, the dynamically when thermal Power 795. And each of these conditions allow systems delivers leadership • Active Memory™ Expansion Power is virtualization performance and scalability in its provides more memory for SAP class. without limits and other applications These systems also leverage POWER processor technology is Enterprise clients are leveraging IBM’s mainframe heritage and an instruction-set architecture virtualization not only to reduce experience