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Success on a smarter planet demands smarter systems
As the world becomes more interconnected and global integration becomes the norm, businesses need, more than ever, to find new ways to connect, internally and externally. Global integration also means that the human ecosystem which companies need to leverage extends well beyond the payroll to partners, suppliers, and customers. Customers expect this – they demand higher levels of service than ever before. Meeting these needs requires smarter systems that are intentionally designed to overcome a consistent set of workload challenges.
IBM understands that a single approach to systems can't satisfy the specific workload demands of every organization and the changing world. IBM's unique approach has been to deliver workload optimized systems to meet the individual client needs for the past 40 years across a portfolio of platforms.
Smarter systems for a smarter planet help you manage vast amounts of data; gain insight from that data; scale as your needs grow; enable efficient and agile data centers; and remain secure and highly available. These workload optimized systems take advantage of IBM's continued research & development investment and deep client experience, gained from thousands of customer engagements, to deliver solutions with better performance and lower cost.
Smarter systems are workload optimized to deliver better performance at lower cost
IBM’s smarter systems for a smarter planet are fully integrated. Pre-tested software and hardware delivers high availability, higher performance and lower costs. Smarter systems are pre-integrated software, hardware, and services that are optimized for specific client needs and workloads.
Transaction Processing and Database Application Workloads (US)
With the ever growing amount of data requiring processing and the velocity with which it comes in, the need for faster handling of transactions and interactions becomes critical. The transactions may be small, but the volume of them and the frequency of the data changes require OLTP environments to maintain high levels of security, integrity and scale.
IBM pureScale Application System - Pre-integrated & optimized, the IBM pureScale Application System provides ultimate flexibility, unmatched application integrity, and superior price/performance.
Reduce the cost and complexity of managing vast amounts of data (US)
Smarter systems will help you store the massive — and growing — amounts of data that your systems are creating without adding complexity to your systems. This means that you not only can scale large amounts of storage, but that you can do so economically. So your storage systems can grow exponentially, but conserve energy, floor space — and management costs.
IBM storage systems are designed to reduce the cost and complexity of managing these vast amounts of data so you don't need to keep adding storage administration staff—and storage space—as the volumes of data grow.
Deliver Operational Effectiveness and Efficiency (US)
Your business needs to be able to use the systems you have efficiently and flexibly — not only to run applications but to run your business. And you need to get the most out of the investment you make in your systems. You can't afford to let too much capacity sit unused. Your systems are service delivery vehicles. They have to respond to the needs of your business — employees, customers, partners. And today, they need to do so in real time.
Virtualization with integrated service management helps you use your resources effectively, manage your infrastructure efficiently, and gain the flexibility to meet ever changing business demands.
Manage Risk, Security and Compliance (US)
The information your business collects and stores is valuable. It may be sensitive information about your customers. It may be confidential information about your business practices. It may just be the data that keeps your business running every day. If something happens to that data, it can be expensive. You need to make sure your data is protected: that only authorized people have access to it, that it is secure on your network and that it is secure "at rest" on your storage devices.
And with growing demands from government regulation and industry standards, you need to be able to report on your security efforts. Smarter systems from IBM offer a range of capabilities to help you keep your data and applications secure.
Business Intelligence and Analytics Workloads (US)
On a smarter planet, the need to analyze large volumes of real-time and historical data to find patterns becomes critical. This requirement incorporates everything from reporting, querying, modeling techniques and predictive capabilities
IBM Smart Analytics System - Pre-integrated & optimized, the IBM Smart Analytics System provides data warehousing, advanced business analytics such as cubing services, text and data mining and Cognos 8 BI out of the box that is faster to deploy, configure, maintain and expand easily from Terabytes to Petabytes.
