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Transform IT for insight and efficiency. Introducing new solutions designed for the Smarter Computing era

Transform IT for insight and efficiency. IBM Systems: Introducing new solutions designed for the Smarter Computing era.

Leap forward with next-generation solutions for storage, technical computing and more

In today’s globally competitive markets, your business needs every advantage to compete. You need to transform data into actionable insight. Bridge islands of computing and processes to improve business agility. And speed time-to-market, all while managing costs and complexity.

A new generation of IBM infrastructure solutions can serve as the foundation of your IT transformation strategy. Designed from the ground up to sense, respond and simplify, these new offerings can help you create an infrastructure that delivers insight, optimizes performance and speeds time-to-value.

Don’t let technology limit your business potential. Explore a new generation of solutions for storage, technical computing, and more that can accelerate your IT transformation.

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Transform IT for insight and efficiency. IBM Smarter Storage: A new approach to the design and deployment of storage

In the era of Smarter Computing, organizations are inundated with more types of data, in greater volume and unprecedented velocity. The value of data is more critical than ever before. Old processes and technologies are physically incapable of scaling to support these new demands. Fresh thinking about your storage is essential to your IT transformation strategy.

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Transform IT for insight and efficiency. IBM Power Systems: It is time for good enough computing to come to an end

Smarter Computing means matching the right workload to the right platform. In today’s environment, making the right platform choice can be critical to your ability to meet business demands, deliver quality capabilities, and improve the bottom line through superior IT economics. With this announcement, IBM Power Systems introduces updates for IBM PowerLinux solutions, and a new IBM Entry Cloud Configuration for SAP Solutions on POWER that helps you achieve your Smarter Computing objectives.

Previously, clients faced a tough choice – robust, secure virtualization, or the flexible affordability of the open source Linux platform. Now, with PowerLinux solutions, clients of all sizes can have both. IBM has combined the legendary performance, security, and reliability of Power Systems with the flexibility and cost efficiency of Linux. With PowerLinux and PowerVM virtualization, you no longer have to settle for “good enough” computing.

With the new IBM Entry Cloud Configuration for SAP Solutions on POWER, IBM provides an easy first step into implementing a self-managed SAP environment within a cloud. This new integrated offering improves the collaboration between the infrastructure and SAP basis management and provides functional integration of IBM and SAP systems software automation capabilities – significantly reducing system administration time.


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Transform IT for insight and efficiency. IBM Technical Computing: Bringing high performance computing (HPC) value mainstream

Today it’s not just rocket scientists who are leveraging technical computing- mainstream businesses are discovering the value of a computing platform that excels at processing compute and data intensive applications in such diverse business areas as computer animation, portfolio management, product design, research, and risk analytics – applications that exemplify the Smarter Computing era.

But until now, smaller companies have found HPC and Technical Computing environments complex to set up and manage, and often priced out of reach. A new family of offerings from IBM has removed those barriers, enabling a new generation of users to gain extraordinary value from the industry's most advanced technical computing platform.

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Transform IT for insight and efficiency. IBM System x and BladeCenter: New x86 offerings improve IT economics

IT organizations that consistently match workloads to the right platform can save time, energy and IT resources while improving the speed and quality of service delivery. Whether your business is growing its cloud capabilities, becoming more data intensive, or supporting new IT services, a new family of x86 systems offers expanded choice in your strategic approach to workload placement.

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Bringing high performance computing value mainstream

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Gain business insights faster with smarter networking

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New x86 offerings improve IT economics

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Transform IT for insight and efficiency

Transform IT for insight and efficiency. IBM System Networking: Gain business insights faster with smarter networking

The Smarter Computing approach thrives in today's cloud-based, geographically distributed, high-speed computing environments. That's why smarter networking offerings from IBM are an essential component of your IT transformation strategy.

You can improve your business economics with networking solutions that help you:

  • Quickly manage and analyze massive amounts of data with scalable Storage Area Networks (SAN)
  • Build integrated, virtualized and open server and storage connectivity with converged fabrics
  • Transition to a higher performance data center while reducing complexity, cabling and cost

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A new approach to the design and deployment of storage

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Bringing high performance computing value mainstream

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It's time for "good enough" computing to come to an end

IBM System Networking
Gain business insights faster with smarter networking

IBM System x and BladeCenter
New x86 offerings improve IT economics