Infrastructure Matters - Hear It From The People Who Know Best

Business and technology are transforming, creating a greater need and urgency to deploy a computing infrastructure that helps support their business results. 

However, according to the IBM Institute of Business Value Study, while 70% want to embark on the new era of computing, only less than ten percent are ready.

The IBM Asia Pacific & ASEAN Systems & Technology Group shares about how infrastructure matters.  A fun ad lib no script impromptu video straight from the heart, from us to you!

Infrastructure Matters

Infrastructure Matters because: 

1. Big Data matters. 

The more quantity and complex the data you have, the faster and more accurate you need to crunch it. We tested our POWER servers against x86 servers and we were faster and cheaper!

2. Analytics matters.   

Imagine with IBM Power systems, you can crunch data up to 82x faster? That means you can get your analysis done faster to make decisions ahead of your competition.

3. Cloud matters.   

A robust cloud ensures that you have access 24x7 with no interruption or downtime. Always ask for POWER available as bare metal in your cloud.

4. Mobility matters. 

90% of the world’s banks run their applications and mobility on IBM Systems. Every second lost means loss of customers

5. Social matters. 

Customers demand immediate response. POWER systems have the highest availability and utilization, so you will never fear that you lose touch socially.

Catch this candid video where IBM Systems team shares what our clients and partners believe is the right infrastructure.

3 Steps To Transforming The Economics Of Data

Data is growing at an explosive rate - over 667 exabytes of data will flow through the Internet alone in 2014. What is exabyte - that's 667 quintillion bytes ... 667 with 18 zeros after!! 

This tremendous growth places intense demands on storage systems, especially flash arrays and storage virtualization.  How can clients transform the economics of data? 

 Watch this video: This clear and simple white-boarding video below explains the details. 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kik3I7krTMQ

New Challenges From Big Data

Companies are facing challenges from data:

1. Growing Data – not just the traditional structured data from traditional, but also the unstructured data from social media

2. Storage inefficiency – companies are buying 24 percent more storage but less than half is used.

3. Storage complexity – More data is generated across departments which is not linked across the organization

Making Sense of Data

How can we make sense of the data and enable the infrastructure to support it?

1. Optimize the storage with real time compression technology – store 5x more data and reduce cost by 60%

2. Maximize performance with flash – business applications can run 3.5x faster

3. Enable new workload with software defined storage – simply storage management and access to get data when needed, easy to deploy cloud, social and mobile platforms.

Data Helps To Stay Ahead Of Competition

With the right infrastructure and technology, business can stay ahead of competition. Each division can access data and use it for competitive advantage:

1. Sales gets insights and are able to run analytics needed to make more profitable business

2. Marketing can run highly effective marketing campaigns with better customer insights

3. Finance can keep cost under lock with more efficient technology

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For more specific demo related to Cloud & Big Data Analytics:

• IBM Elastic Storage for Big Data

IBM Software Defined Storage transforms data economics for traditional and new era workloads with new data flexibility, agility, and responsiveness – all delivered through software.  And at the same time, maintaining the required security and reliability that are critical for your data systems. IBM Elastic Storage provides high performance for petabytes of data and billions of file using a mixture of disk and LTO tape under a single global namespace and reduce TCO up to 15x and energy consumption up to 230x. This demo shows automatic data placement policy and movement across disk and tape tiers and still retains data availability for your applications at all times.

• IBM Storage on Cloud

Enables enterprises to implement a private cloud storage service where users, with a few clicks, can request & receive storage capacity, share files with other users, and administrators can easily monitor & report usage. Simplify work for your storage admin, and reduce SAN & NAS storage provisioning time from days and weeks to minutes!

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Wow Moment Made Possible By Cloud And Software Defined Storage

Just last week, International Data Corp. (IDC) [1] has ranked IBM as the top ranking supplier of Software Defined Storage Platforms (SDS-P) [2].  The ranking reflects widespread adoption of IBM’s SDS-P technologies by companies looking to gain faster, more reliable access to their growing data volumes.

Why are clients making the switch? New era cloud environments and applications such as analytics, mobile and social are driving huge growth in data volumes, making data the new natural resource. But cost-effectively optimizing your current storage environments while at the same time exploiting new opportunities is straining storage budgets. IBM software defined storage is the solution.

Take the example of the United States Tennis Association (USTA).  Each year, USTA teams with IBM to deliver a dynamic online and mobile experience to fans of the US Open tournament. The cloud-based infrastructure consistently generates increasing amounts of data, as well as a corresponding increase in demand for greater access and analysis. During the 2013 US Open, the USTA churned out 2.9 million hours of live-streaming video and served more than 400 million page views on its tournament web site over the course of just two weeks.

“The versatile and reliable IBM infrastructure that supports the US Open enables us to provide fans the tournament data and insights they need, no matter where they are located,” said Nicole Jeter West, Senior Director of Ticketing and Digital Strategy at USTA. “The dynamic IBM cloud helps us ensure that we are able to immediately serve the right content to tennis enthusiasts around the globe.”The reliable digital platform that provides US Open fans constant access to real-time scores, statistics, video, etc., is supported by IBM’s Elastic Storage, part of the Software Defined Portfolio.

IBM has revolutionized the marketplace with our Software Defined Storage solutions [3], helping clients optimize current storage environments so they can unlock the potential of their data by exploiting new opportunities provided by cloud, analytics, mobile and social. I’m so proud to be part of the winning team in Systems Technology Group.

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[1] International Data Corp. (IDC) has ranked IBM as the top ranking supplier of Software Defined Storage Platforms (SDS-P) in its latest Worldwide Storage Software QView for the second quarter 2014, based on software revenue.

[2] IDC describes SDS-P as, “platforms that deliver the full suite of storage services via a software stack that uses (but is not dependent on) commodity hardware built with off-the-shelf components.” 

[3] IBM has hardware agnostic software technologies code-named Elastic Storage that automatically manage data locally and globally.  It provides breakthrough speeds in data access, easy administration and the ability to scale technology infrastructure quickly and more cost-effectively. 

In addition to Elastic Storage, the portfolio includes IBM’s storage virtualization software, SAN Volume Controller, which enables clients to virtualize storage infrastructures for fast, reliable data movement across heterogeneous storage systems. SAN Volume Controller is also available as part of IBM's Virtual Storage Center which provides additional capabilities for storage management such as backup, restore, and visual administration.