PowerLinux Solution Editions

Together, IBM and leading ISVs provide solutions that combine the power of IBM PowerLinux and the strengths of business applications, along with superior services and support.

There are Solution Editions specifically designed for big data which run on the PowerLinux 7R2. The IBM PowerLinux server is optimized for Linux, providing more efficient horizontal scaling at price points comparable to traditional Linux servers. The IBM PowerLinux 7R2 server delivers the outstanding performance and workload-optimizing capabilities of the POWER7® processor in a Linux only, dense, 2U rack form factor that is ideal for running multiple application and infrastructure workloads in a virtualized environment. The two-socket, high-performance, energy-efficient server supports sixteen POWER7 cores and a choice of Linux operating systems.

Power Linux Big Data / BigInsights Solution Editions

• Required: PowerLinux 7R2 + IBM InfoSphere Big Insights
• Minimum: 8 servers
• Voucher: 8 hours

IBM InfoSphere BigInsights brings the power of Hadoop to the enterprise. Apache Hadoop is the open source software framework, used to reliably managing large volumes of structured and unstructured data. BigInsights enhances this technology to withstand the demands of your enterprise, adding administrative, workflow, provisioning, and security features, along with best-in-class analytical capabilities from IBM Research. InfoSphere BigInsights allows enterprises of all sizes to cost effectively manage and analyze the massive volume, variety and velocity of data that consumers and businesses create every day.

Power Linux Big Data / Streams Solution Editions

• Required: PowerLinux 7R2 + IBM InfoSphere Streams
• Minimum: 5 servers
• Voucher: 5 hours

Stream computing changes where, when and how much of your business data you can analyze. By extracting insight from data as it is streaming into your organization, you can react to events as they are happening to change business outcomes. Store less, analyze more, and make better decisions, faster. IBM InfoSphere Streams enables continuous and extremely fast analysis of massive volumes of information-in-motion to help improve business insights and decision making.

Power Linux Industry Applications Solution Editions

There is a Solution Editions designed for running your industry applications. The Power 750 Express is a one- to four-socket server that supports up to 32 cores with outstanding energy efficiency and diagnostic features in a 4U (EIA Units) package.

• The Power 750 is an ENERGY STAR®-qualified server designed with features to help clients become more energy efficient.
• The leadership performance of the POWER7 processor makes it possible for applications to run faster with fewer processors, resulting in lower per core software licensing costs.
• Maximize performance based on client workloads and computing needs. Intelligent Threads technology can provide improved application performance with up to 128 simultaneous compute threads.
• Maximize cache access to cores, improving performance, using Intelligent Cache technology.
• Utilize the full capability of the system by leveraging industrial-strength PowerVM™ virtualization for Linux to dynamically adjust system resources based on workload demands. Enable a partition to do significantly more work or enable a server to run more partitions with the same physical amount of memory.

Power Systems Running Linux industry application solutions:

• Required: Power 750 Express server running RHEL or SLES Linux OS + WebSphere Application Server V8.5
• Minimum: 1 server
• Voucher: 8 hours

WebSphere Application Server that can go from single server to moderately sized configurations to dynamic web applications requiring web tier clustering and fail over across multiple application server instances.