IBM PowerLinux solutions

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PowerVM delivers 525% greater performance than VMware with vSphere 5.0

Edison Group:  IBM PowerVM Virtualization Technology on IBM POWER7 Systems
A Comparison of PowerVM and VMware vSphere (4.1 & 5.0) Virtualization Performance

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PowerLinux delivers 43.2% less downtime for SAP deployments than Windows

Solitaire Interglobal: PowerLinux versus Windows for SAP Deployment

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PowerLinux with POWER7 delivers 72% greater throughput than VMware on Sandy Bridge, with 80 VMs

Edison Group: Virtualization Performance on the IBM PureFlex System

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IBM PowerLinux solutions deliver up to 41% lower acquisition costs than x86 Linux with VMware

  • Two PowerLinux 7R2 servers: 2 socket, 16-core, IBM POWER7 4.2 GHz, PowerVM 2.2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, comparable memory, storage, NICs
  • Three HP DL 380p G8 servers: 2 socket, 16-core, Intel Xeon E5-2690 2.9 GHz, VMware vSphere Enterprise 5.1, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, comparable memory, storage, NICs
  • Average sustained utilization assumptions of 47% for the PowerLinux 7R2 with PowerVM as the virtualization technology vs. 35% for HP DL 380p G8 with VMware vSphere Enterprise 5.1 as the virtualization technology.
  • The IBM PowerLinux 7R2 servers were configured with SMT4 enabled. The HP DL380p G8 servers were configured with Intel Hyperthreading enabled. Results may not be typical and will vary based on actual configuration, applications, and other variables in a production environment. Public Internet pricing was used for the x86-based solution. IBM eConfig was used for the IBM solution. Customers should not adapt any performance numbers to their own environments as system performance standards. Users should verify the applicable data for their specific environment.

Prices from www.hp.com and http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/pricing.html on 1/15/2013.

A PowerLinux compute cluster running Hadoop can sort through a terabyte of data 58% faster than one built with commodity x86 hardware

IBM Research: Understanding System and Architecture for Big Data

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Cloudera: Hadoop World 2011: Hadoop and Performance

MapR: The Design, Scale and Performance of MapR’s Distribution for Apache Hadoop

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Companies embracing Smarter Computing are implementing IT infrastructure based on the IBM Power Systems platform that is designed for data, tuned to the task and managed with cloud technologies. With Power Systems, businesses can outpace their competitors by delivering services faster, differentiate their offerings by delivering higher quality services, and turn operational cost into investment opportunity by delivering services with superior economics.

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Power Systems hardware provides the foundation for designing workload optimized systems in conjunction with software and expert domain knowledge. Power servers and blades are modular and scalable and designed from the chip through the software stack to help deliver new levels of business performance.

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