In today's demanding workforce, your business requires continuous and immediate access to information. IBM systems experts work with IBM software engineers and leading database vendors like Microsoft®, Oracle® and SAP® so that IBM System x®, BladeCenter® and System Storage® offerings are optimized to manage data from the smallest of departments to large-scale enterprise data warehouses reliably and economically for a dynamic, scalable infrastructure that helps you respond quickly to changing business demands.
Benefits
IBM System x and BladeCenter systems are designed and optimized to provide the best data management offerings in the x86 market with:
- The broadest portfolio of x86 servers targeted to data management
- The industry's most robust portfolio of data management software and solutions
- Unique innovations for memory expansion and storage access:
- MAX5 provides eX5 servers more memory expansion than comparable x86 servers
- eXFlash for solid state drives provide significantly higher IOPS than standard HDDs on competitive x86 server offerings
- FlexNode failover and partitioning provides unprecedented investment protection and maximum system uptime
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Optimized systems for database:
Optimized systems for database provide preconfigured, pretested IBM eX5 server configurations, optimized to deliver increased performance for your most demanding transactional database workloads. Containing the right balance of processing power, memory and I/O, and pretested with industry-leading database software, these server configurations can help you reduce your expenses with no trade-offs to business productivity.
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Optimized systems for analytics:
The IBM Smart Analytics System is an integrated platform that provides broad analytics capabilities on a powerful warehouse foundation with IBM server and storage. Deeply integrated and optimized, IBM Smart Analytics System provides a single point of support for end-to-end analytics solutions.
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Optimized systems for SAP applications:
IBM Systems solutions for SAP HANA provides preconfigured, preloaded server models optimized by IBM and certified by SAP to help you instantly access, model and analyze all of your company’s SAP transactional and analytical data from virtually any data source in real time, in a single environment, without impacting existing applications or systems.
IBM Systems solution for SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse Accelerator provides a prepackaged BladeCenter solution that can help extend your business insight by turning massive amounts of data into valuable information faster than you ever imagined
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Database:
- DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows is a relational model database server that runs on IBM System x and BladeCenter, as well as on other IBM server offerings.
- DB2 pureScale is a scale-out implementation of IBM DB2 and is designed for organizations that run online transaction processing (OLTP) applications on distributed systems within clustered environments.
- IBM solidDB is a relational, in-memory database that delivers extreme speed and extreme availability to meet performance and reliability demands of real-time applications.
- Informix is a family of relational database management system (RDBMS) software used as the engine to power OLTP and decision support applications.
- Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database server and information platform that offers a complete set of enterprise-ready technologies and tools.
- Oracle Database is a relational database that provides comprehensive features to easily manage the most demanding transaction processing, business intelligence, and content management applications
Analytics and data management:
- Cognos Business Intelligence and Financial Performance Management is a set of analytics software solutions providing comprehensive query and reporting along with dashboarding for monitoring, measuring and management of corporate performance at a glance.
- IBM SPSS software for predictive analytics offers rich statistical capabilities paired with features that make it easier to access and manage data, select and perform analyses and share results.
- Netezza combines storage, processing, database and analytics into high-performance data warehouse appliances that are purpose-built to make advanced analytics on big data simpler, faster and more accessible.
Read customer success stories
Newell Rubbermaid cleans up with SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse solutions based on IBM Systems and IBM DB2
Supporting the concept of the integrated enterprise, Newell Rubbermaid replaced its legacy databases, Oracle and Adabas, with IBM DB2 as its global standard for all SAP applications.
Processing 30,000 articles at the touch of a button IBM Cognos Business Intelligence provides decision-making insight for logistics and company management
With IBM® Cognos® Business Intelligence v10, REXEL has a reporting solution that provides up-to-date and consistent corporate data and allows users access via a web browser.
RealPlus accelerates online real estate listings service Gains 20 percent performance improvement with IBM Informix 11.5
Working with IBM Business Partners One Point Solutions and Unique Systems, RealPlus today uses Informix 11.5 for high performance, reliable and hassle-free delivery of its real estate services.
Unique Express makes inroads to a smarter freight solution
Unique Express implemented a comprehensive Omnix Transport Solution running on an IBM® System x® server and the IBM Informix® Database on the Linux operating system. The end result was a dramatically better management of driver and vehicle resources, saving tens of thousands of dollars per year.
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