Big data solutions on System x

Delivering insights with faster time to value

Discover higher quality analytics with a reliable and secure foundation

You have more data from more sources – this combination should lead to better decisions, right? But many organizations are analyzing a smaller percentage of their data than before. Applications and IT infrastructures can’t keep up. You need to manage the volume, variety and velocity of data, apply analytics for better insight and use this insight to help make better business decisions faster than the competition. And you need to accomplish these goals cost effectively.

Big data solutions on IBM System x® servers can help you meet these challenges and offer the following advantages:

Easy ordering and implementation
Quick, cost-effective deployment
Capability to address data in motion and at rest
Flexibility to meet your requirements

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IBM System x Reference Architecture for Hadoop: InfoSphere BigInsights delivers scale-out computing based on the latest IBM System x3630 M4 platform for analysis of both unstructured and structured data. With increased performance, storage and memory capacity, you can get faster insight from analysis of large scale data. The hardware platform is available pre-integrated from IBM.

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IBM Redbook: Implementing IBM InfoSphere BigInsights on System x

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IBM System x Reference Architecture for InfoSphere Streams performs complex, real-time analytics on unstructured data-in-motion so you can run large-scale, distributed analytics jobs on clusters of cost-effective, high performance System x servers. The hardware platform is available pre-integrated from IBM.

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IBM System x Reference Architecture for Hadoop: Cloudera delivers Cloudera certified reference architectures for Apache Hadoop environments based on CDH, Cloudera’s market-leading distribution. These tested configurations perform complex analytics on unstructured data on the latest generation of IBM System x3630 M4 systems. The hardware platform is available pre-integrated from IBM.

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