IBM Introduces New Systems to Accelerate Smarter Computing
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Posted on October 19, 2011 at 8:21:01 AM
IBM Introduces New Systems to Accelerate Smarter Computing
Fifty-five New and Enhanced Servers and Storage Products Designed to Help Businesses Make Better Decisions and Operate More Efficiently
ARMONK, N.Y., Oct. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- In the largest update to its systems portfolio this year, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced 55 new and updated server and storage technologies that can help clients gain actionable insights from data, increase IT capacity and deliver new services faster to create profitable business opportunities.
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The new and enhanced offerings include affordable business analytics systems, automated tools for implementing security and compliance standards, and starter kits for establishing private clouds.
As the world's increasing demand for data and services puts a strain on IT resources, organizations become trapped in a vicious cycle in which a rigid IT infrastructure and lack of trusted data leads to reactive or risky decision making. Attempts to overcome these challenges through additional IT investments often result in a more sprawling and costly infrastructure.
The new offerings, highlighted below, address these challenges with smarter computing technologies for business analytics, integrated storage, optimized systems and virtualized data centers.
Designed for Data
Companies that handle vast amounts of information need to be able to analyze that data to make better business decisions in real time. IBM is delivering new entry-level business analytics systems, accelerated database analytics and expanded data storage options. Highlights include:
-- IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator incorporates the Netezza data warehouse
appliance into the IBM zEnterprise System for faster analytic responses.
The blending of Netezza and System z technologies enables the merging of
online transaction processing (OLTP) systems, which facilitate and
manage transaction-oriented applications typically for data entry and
retrieval transaction processing, with analytics into a single platform
for operational business analytics. The appliance plugs into IBM DB2 for
z/OS database on zEnterprise 196 (or z114) and is designed to speed
response time for a wide variety of intensive analytics, which
ultimately can provide faster business analysis. At a time when
organizations are demanding access to customer purchase histories,
customer behaviors and real time sales trends, IBM DB2 Analytics
Accelerator helps clients sift through this massive amount of data and
make the information relevant and actionable in a timelier manner.
-- IBM Smart Analytics System 9700 and IBM Smart Analytics System 9710
utilize innovative technologies to deliver an end-to-end data warehouse
and business intelligence solution on IBM zEnterprise System. The new
systems can support a data distribution hub, transactional analysis
platforms and modernized reporting systems, or provide a framework for
comprehensive predictive analytics. IBM clients can now build a
mainframe-based operational business analytics solution at an
entry-level price.
-- IBM POWER7 processor-based IBM Smart Analytics System 7710 and x86
processor-based IBM Smart Analytics System 5710 are single server,
all-in-one systems that deliver business analytics and reporting
services faster and at a lower cost than previous IBM integrated
solutions. Engineered for the rapid deployment of business-ready
solutions in days and not months, they offer a breadth of capabilities
including business intelligence reporting, analysis, dashboards, data
mining, cubing services and text analytics.
-- IBM Storwize V7000 Unified midrange disk system brings efficiency and
simplicity to data storage with file and block storage located on the
same system with a world-class graphical user interface. It provides
automatic policy-driven movement of files to the desired drive type to
help manage costs and simplify administration, the ability to either
scale within a system or scale out by clustering two systems together,
and enhanced remote mirroring options.
-- IBM System Storage DS8000 Release 6.2 enterprise disk systems introduce
greater performance and improved capacity optimization capabilities that
allow organizations to manage diverse workloads efficiently and
automatically without administrator involvement. Easy Tier enhancements
include automated data migration across three-tiers of storage, as well
as automated data rebalancing within a single tier, which can help
clients improve performance where and when it's needed. Moreover, with
only two parameters to set, Easy Tier is easy to set up and manage.
-- IBM XIV Storage System Gen3 enterprise disk system was introduced in
July with an advanced hardware upgrade that can improve performance for
the most demanding workloads. Now, IBM is adding support for 3TB disk
drives that increase capacity by 50 percent in the same physical
footprint and enable an increase in usable capacity of up to 243TB per
rack (based on IBM internal measurements). IBM is offering several other
innovations such as the IBM XIV Mobile Dashboard, an Apple iPad
application available at no cost that enables XIV system status to be
monitored from anywhere. Separately, IBM this week announced the first
Storage Performance Council (SPC) result with the XIV Storage System as
part of the SPC's announcement of the new energy extensions for SPC-2
(SPC-2/E) and SPC-2C (SPC-2C/E). XIV Storage System produced an SPC-2/E
result which demonstrated its ability to handle Big Data as well as
providing associated energy use data. The SPC-2/E result shows the XIV
Storage System provides outstanding enterprise price-performance, in
addition to Large File Processing (LFP) performance that is faster than
all SPC-2 submissions from competing vendors to date.(1)
Tuned to the Task
Systems that are optimized across the infrastructure and tuned for specific tasks enable businesses of all sizes to achieve superior economics. IBM is providing new technologies that automate security and compliance of virtualized environments and multi-system virtualization capabilities to reduce cumbersome IT sprawl. Highlights include:
-- IBM PowerSC technology provides automated tools for security and
compliance of virtualized environments on Power Systems running PowerVM
virtualization technology. Centrally managed reporting for compliance
measurement and audit can reduce the cost of cloud computing security in
virtualized data centers. Clients can automatically apply security
profiles and generate reports about compliance, which can reduce
administrative costs involved in configuring and auditing systems that
require particular industry standards.
-- IBM z/VM 6.2 offers new multi-system virtualization capabilities within
the software to help clients avoid virtual machine sprawl. Up to four
instances of z/VM can be clustered together as members in a Single
System Image, where they can be managed as a single z/VM system and
share system resources.
-- IBM Systems Director v6.3 includes improvements in performance,
scalability and usability for simplified management of optimized
systems. Enhancements in the new version include simplified usability
functions and fewer installation steps, the ability to manage more
endpoints from a single interface, and streamlined database management
with an embedded DB2 database.
Managed in the Cloud
IBM cloud infrastructure solutions can accelerate deployment and maximize efficiency of businesses who want to achieve rapid, flexible delivery of high value services. IBM now offers solutions that help clients easily establish virtualized data center environments, scale cloud file systems more efficiently and improve system utilization. Highlights include:
-- IBM SmartCloud Entry solution, delivered by IBM Starter Kit for Cloud,
offers the building blocks to create private clouds on virtualized IBM
System x and Power Systems hardware. The solution provides simplified
initialization and administration for cloud environments on Power and
x86 systems, standardization of virtual machines and improved operations
productivity with an easy-to-use, self-service interface. Organizations
can also quickly and easily scale to more advanced cloud solutions as
business demands and workloads increase. See related October 12, 2011
press release, "IBM Introduces New Portfolio of Private Cloud
Offerings."
-- zEnterprise Starter Edition for Cloud offers customers an entry-level
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud delivery model for Linux on
System z with Tivoli Provisioning Manager. This easy-to-deploy, highly
secure, resilient turn-key "cloud in a box" extends the scope of the
enterprise cloud with centralized management of the entire zEnterprise
system.
-- IBM BladeCenter Foundation for Cloud is a comprehensive, converged cloud
computing platform that combines server, storage, networking and
management technology that allows clients to quickly create an x86-based
virtualization environment that is simple to deploy, manage and scale.
BladeCenter Foundation for Cloud comes in three sizes - small, medium
and large - designed to fit the business needs of any size business,
based on budget, storage size or performance, and is capable of helping
smoothly manage a typical multi-rack datacenter as if powered by a
single chassis.
-- IBM Active Cloud Engine scales cloud file systems efficiently by moving
files where and when they are needed. It gives companies fast access to
billions of files and dramatically improves the management and
efficiency of cloud storage. Capabilities for global clouds are
available on IBM Scale-Out Network Attached Storage R 1.3 (SONAS) and
for mid-sized clouds on Storwize V7000 Unified systems.
-- IBM Systems Director VMControl 2.4 now offers extended virtual image
management and system resource pool capabilities on System x for
Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), the next generation open source
hypervisor. The new cloud-ready virtualization capabilities help improve
system utilization and reduce time to deploy new workloads.
-- IBM System Networking delivers smarter data center networking with
faster, flexible and standards-based solutions designed to increase
performance while helping to reduce costs, space, power and complexity
for public and private clouds, as well as analyzing big data. New
offerings include IBM 16Gbps Fibre Channel SAN backbones and switches
that can ease migration to private clouds, the new 1.28Tb/sec 40GbE IBM
RackSwitch G8316 that helps flatten networks for better performance and
simplicity, the OpenFlow-enabled 10/40GbE IBM RackSwitch G8264 to
increase client control, iFlow Director for high performance, low cost
IBM BladeCenter-based appliances for mobile and Web 2.0 applications,
and the new IBM Networking Operating System for today's dynamic,
virtualized data centers.
Financing provided by IBM Global Financing,(2) the lending and leasing arm of IBM, helps credit-qualified clients make the transition to smarter computing with zero percent financing for servers, storage and software or deferred payments up to six months. Financing helps clients accelerates their cash flow break-even point by spreading upfront costs over time, enabling them to utilizing cash reserves for other strategic investments. For more information on IBM's financing options, visit http://www.ibm.com/financing/us/lifecycle/acquire/hardware
About IBM
For more information on IBM Smarter Computing, visit http://www.ibm.com/smartercomputing
(1) 8259.94 MBPS SPC-2 (LFP) Data Rate, $137.07 SPC-2 (LFP) Price-Performance Source: Storage Performance Council SPC-2 Benchmark Results, August 19, 2011, http://www.storageperformance.org/results/benchmark_results_spc2/#BE00001
(2) IBM Global Financing offerings are provided through IBM Credit LLC in the United States and other IBM subsidiaries and divisions worldwide to qualified commercial and government clients. Rates and availability are based on a client's credit rating, financing terms, offering type, equipment and product type and options, and may vary by country. Non-hardware items must be one-time, non-recurring charges and are financed by means of loans. Other restrictions may apply. Rates and offerings are subject to change, extension or withdrawal without notice and may not be available in all countries.
IBM, BladeCenter, DB2, iFlow Director, POWER7, PowerSC, Power Systems, RackSwitch, Storwize, System Storage, System x, System z, Tivoli, VMControl and z/VM are registered trademarks of IBM Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. All other company/product names and service marks may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
Contact Tracy Sullivan IBM Media Relations +1 617-693-0021 tsulliva@us.ibm.com
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Fifty-five New and Enhanced Servers and Storage Products Designed to Help Businesses Make Better Decisions and Operate More Efficiently
ARMONK, N.Y., Oct. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- In the largest update to its systems portfolio this year, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced 55 new and updated server and storage technologies that can help clients gain actionable insights from data, increase IT capacity and deliver new services faster to create profitable business opportunities.
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090416/IBMLOGO )
The new and enhanced offerings include affordable business analytics systems, automated tools for implementing security and compliance standards, and starter kits for establishing private clouds.
As the world's increasing demand for data and services puts a strain on IT resources, organizations become trapped in a vicious cycle in which a rigid IT infrastructure and lack of trusted data leads to reactive or risky decision making. Attempts to overcome these challenges through additional IT investments often result in a more sprawling and costly infrastructure.
The new offerings, highlighted below, address these challenges with smarter computing technologies for business analytics, integrated storage, optimized systems and virtualized data centers.
Designed for Data
Companies that handle vast amounts of information need to be able to analyze that data to make better business decisions in real time. IBM is delivering new entry-level business analytics systems, accelerated database analytics and expanded data storage options. Highlights include:
-- IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator incorporates the Netezza data warehouse
appliance into the IBM zEnterprise System for faster analytic responses.
The blending of Netezza and System z technologies enables the merging of
online transaction processing (OLTP) systems, which facilitate and
manage transaction-oriented applications typically for data entry and
retrieval transaction processing, with analytics into a single platform
for operational business analytics. The appliance plugs into IBM DB2 for
z/OS database on zEnterprise 196 (or z114) and is designed to speed
response time for a wide variety of intensive analytics, which
ultimately can provide faster business analysis. At a time when
organizations are demanding access to customer purchase histories,
customer behaviors and real time sales trends, IBM DB2 Analytics
Accelerator helps clients sift through this massive amount of data and
make the information relevant and actionable in a timelier manner.
-- IBM Smart Analytics System 9700 and IBM Smart Analytics System 9710
utilize innovative technologies to deliver an end-to-end data warehouse
and business intelligence solution on IBM zEnterprise System. The new
systems can support a data distribution hub, transactional analysis
platforms and modernized reporting systems, or provide a framework for
comprehensive predictive analytics. IBM clients can now build a
mainframe-based operational business analytics solution at an
entry-level price.
-- IBM POWER7 processor-based IBM Smart Analytics System 7710 and x86
processor-based IBM Smart Analytics System 5710 are single server,
all-in-one systems that deliver business analytics and reporting
services faster and at a lower cost than previous IBM integrated
solutions. Engineered for the rapid deployment of business-ready
solutions in days and not months, they offer a breadth of capabilities
including business intelligence reporting, analysis, dashboards, data
mining, cubing services and text analytics.
-- IBM Storwize V7000 Unified midrange disk system brings efficiency and
simplicity to data storage with file and block storage located on the
same system with a world-class graphical user interface. It provides
automatic policy-driven movement of files to the desired drive type to
help manage costs and simplify administration, the ability to either
scale within a system or scale out by clustering two systems together,
and enhanced remote mirroring options.
-- IBM System Storage DS8000 Release 6.2 enterprise disk systems introduce
greater performance and improved capacity optimization capabilities that
allow organizations to manage diverse workloads efficiently and
automatically without administrator involvement. Easy Tier enhancements
include automated data migration across three-tiers of storage, as well
as automated data rebalancing within a single tier, which can help
clients improve performance where and when it's needed. Moreover, with
only two parameters to set, Easy Tier is easy to set up and manage.
-- IBM XIV Storage System Gen3 enterprise disk system was introduced in
July with an advanced hardware upgrade that can improve performance for
the most demanding workloads. Now, IBM is adding support for 3TB disk
drives that increase capacity by 50 percent in the same physical
footprint and enable an increase in usable capacity of up to 243TB per
rack (based on IBM internal measurements). IBM is offering several other
innovations such as the IBM XIV Mobile Dashboard, an Apple iPad
application available at no cost that enables XIV system status to be
monitored from anywhere. Separately, IBM this week announced the first
Storage Performance Council (SPC) result with the XIV Storage System as
part of the SPC's announcement of the new energy extensions for SPC-2
(SPC-2/E) and SPC-2C (SPC-2C/E). XIV Storage System produced an SPC-2/E
result which demonstrated its ability to handle Big Data as well as
providing associated energy use data. The SPC-2/E result shows the XIV
Storage System provides outstanding enterprise price-performance, in
addition to Large File Processing (LFP) performance that is faster than
all SPC-2 submissions from competing vendors to date.(1)
Tuned to the Task
Systems that are optimized across the infrastructure and tuned for specific tasks enable businesses of all sizes to achieve superior economics. IBM is providing new technologies that automate security and compliance of virtualized environments and multi-system virtualization capabilities to reduce cumbersome IT sprawl. Highlights include:
-- IBM PowerSC technology provides automated tools for security and
compliance of virtualized environments on Power Systems running PowerVM
virtualization technology. Centrally managed reporting for compliance
measurement and audit can reduce the cost of cloud computing security in
virtualized data centers. Clients can automatically apply security
profiles and generate reports about compliance, which can reduce
administrative costs involved in configuring and auditing systems that
require particular industry standards.
-- IBM z/VM 6.2 offers new multi-system virtualization capabilities within
the software to help clients avoid virtual machine sprawl. Up to four
instances of z/VM can be clustered together as members in a Single
System Image, where they can be managed as a single z/VM system and
share system resources.
-- IBM Systems Director v6.3 includes improvements in performance,
scalability and usability for simplified management of optimized
systems. Enhancements in the new version include simplified usability
functions and fewer installation steps, the ability to manage more
endpoints from a single interface, and streamlined database management
with an embedded DB2 database.
Managed in the Cloud
IBM cloud infrastructure solutions can accelerate deployment and maximize efficiency of businesses who want to achieve rapid, flexible delivery of high value services. IBM now offers solutions that help clients easily establish virtualized data center environments, scale cloud file systems more efficiently and improve system utilization. Highlights include:
-- IBM SmartCloud Entry solution, delivered by IBM Starter Kit for Cloud,
offers the building blocks to create private clouds on virtualized IBM
System x and Power Systems hardware. The solution provides simplified
initialization and administration for cloud environments on Power and
x86 systems, standardization of virtual machines and improved operations
productivity with an easy-to-use, self-service interface. Organizations
can also quickly and easily scale to more advanced cloud solutions as
business demands and workloads increase. See related October 12, 2011
press release, "IBM Introduces New Portfolio of Private Cloud
Offerings."
-- zEnterprise Starter Edition for Cloud offers customers an entry-level
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud delivery model for Linux on
System z with Tivoli Provisioning Manager. This easy-to-deploy, highly
secure, resilient turn-key "cloud in a box" extends the scope of the
enterprise cloud with centralized management of the entire zEnterprise
system.
-- IBM BladeCenter Foundation for Cloud is a comprehensive, converged cloud
computing platform that combines server, storage, networking and
management technology that allows clients to quickly create an x86-based
virtualization environment that is simple to deploy, manage and scale.
BladeCenter Foundation for Cloud comes in three sizes - small, medium
and large - designed to fit the business needs of any size business,
based on budget, storage size or performance, and is capable of helping
smoothly manage a typical multi-rack datacenter as if powered by a
single chassis.
-- IBM Active Cloud Engine scales cloud file systems efficiently by moving
files where and when they are needed. It gives companies fast access to
billions of files and dramatically improves the management and
efficiency of cloud storage. Capabilities for global clouds are
available on IBM Scale-Out Network Attached Storage R 1.3 (SONAS) and
for mid-sized clouds on Storwize V7000 Unified systems.
-- IBM Systems Director VMControl 2.4 now offers extended virtual image
management and system resource pool capabilities on System x for
Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), the next generation open source
hypervisor. The new cloud-ready virtualization capabilities help improve
system utilization and reduce time to deploy new workloads.
-- IBM System Networking delivers smarter data center networking with
faster, flexible and standards-based solutions designed to increase
performance while helping to reduce costs, space, power and complexity
for public and private clouds, as well as analyzing big data. New
offerings include IBM 16Gbps Fibre Channel SAN backbones and switches
that can ease migration to private clouds, the new 1.28Tb/sec 40GbE IBM
RackSwitch G8316 that helps flatten networks for better performance and
simplicity, the OpenFlow-enabled 10/40GbE IBM RackSwitch G8264 to
increase client control, iFlow Director for high performance, low cost
IBM BladeCenter-based appliances for mobile and Web 2.0 applications,
and the new IBM Networking Operating System for today's dynamic,
virtualized data centers.
Financing provided by IBM Global Financing,(2) the lending and leasing arm of IBM, helps credit-qualified clients make the transition to smarter computing with zero percent financing for servers, storage and software or deferred payments up to six months. Financing helps clients accelerates their cash flow break-even point by spreading upfront costs over time, enabling them to utilizing cash reserves for other strategic investments. For more information on IBM's financing options, visit http://www.ibm.com/financing/us/lifecycle/acquire/hardware
About IBM
For more information on IBM Smarter Computing, visit http://www.ibm.com/smartercomputing
(1) 8259.94 MBPS SPC-2 (LFP) Data Rate, $137.07 SPC-2 (LFP) Price-Performance Source: Storage Performance Council SPC-2 Benchmark Results, August 19, 2011, http://www.storageperformance.org/results/benchmark_results_spc2/#BE00001
(2) IBM Global Financing offerings are provided through IBM Credit LLC in the United States and other IBM subsidiaries and divisions worldwide to qualified commercial and government clients. Rates and availability are based on a client's credit rating, financing terms, offering type, equipment and product type and options, and may vary by country. Non-hardware items must be one-time, non-recurring charges and are financed by means of loans. Other restrictions may apply. Rates and offerings are subject to change, extension or withdrawal without notice and may not be available in all countries.
IBM, BladeCenter, DB2, iFlow Director, POWER7, PowerSC, Power Systems, RackSwitch, Storwize, System Storage, System x, System z, Tivoli, VMControl and z/VM are registered trademarks of IBM Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. All other company/product names and service marks may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
Contact Tracy Sullivan IBM Media Relations +1 617-693-0021 tsulliva@us.ibm.com
SOURCE IBM
Photo:http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090416/IBMLOGO
http://photoarchive.ap.org/
IBM
Web Site: http://www.ibm.com