Institute of Business Value: Infrastructure Study Part 2

Catch the latest findings from Institute of Business Value in "Infrastructure Matters Part 2" on how the right infrastructure can fine-tune #analytics based decisions & maximize #cloud economics with #open #innovation #IBMsystems #openpower #storage #smartercomputing

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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!

IBM Races Ahead With Infiniti Red Bull Racing

IBM Asean GM Kellar Neville urges all to race forward, just like how Infiniti RedBull Racing partners with IBM STG platform computing as Innovation Partner to win in Formula One races!

Check out my blog on Infiniti Red Bull: http://annephey.blogspot.sg/2014/10/technology-secret-to-winning-f1.html

Check out slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/annephey/blog-2014-1016-infiniti-red-bulls-secrets-to-winning-f1-races

Check out the video from IBM XCITE Business Leaders Day below

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Al Peasland of Infiniti Red Bull Racing on Innovation Partnership with IBM Platform Computing

Al Peasland (Head of Technical Partnership) from Infiniti Red Bull Racing talks about the continued Innovation Partnership with IBM STG's Platform Computing (Symphony, Elastic Storage & Software Defined Storage).

Check out my blog on the details: http://annephey.blogspot.sg/2014/10/technology-secret-to-winning-f1.html

Check out slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/annephey/blog-2014-1016-infiniti-red-bulls-secrets-to-winning-f1-races

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Technology - the secret to winning F1

Technology events have never gotten more exciting!  We had a total sensory experience at IBM ASEAN’s Xcite event with Infiniti Red Bull Racing Team.

Al Peasland (Head of Technical Partnerships, Red Bull Racing) was our speaker who gave us a TED-style sharing of the partnership between IBM and Red Bull Racing.  We experienced the Infiniti Red Bull spirit of fun and philosophy of “performance and reliability” with Al’s passionate delivery and interactive presentation.

 

Performance is great but if it doesn't happen when you need it, you cannot consistently win the race.  If it is just  about reliability, you may not become the best without pushing performance.  Both are important to keep staying ahead and winning.

Al shared, “Platform Computing is the back bone infrastructure for high performance computing, which helped Red Bull Racing with the design of the car, the analytics and the race strategy.”  It is used to plan into the future, to create all the what if scenarios and to predict what may happen in the two hour race.

When the single focus is to win races and championships, every element of the design and manufacture of Formula One racing cars is critical. With Formula One regulations becoming more stringent each year, Red Bull Racing is designing the entire car in a virtual world and parts are machined directly from 3D CAD models. Red Bull Racing also collects massive amounts of data from wind tunnel testing and from the car during races. These processes demand extensive use of simulation and data analytics, and a first class IT infrastructure.

Infiniti Red Bull Racing is ahead of the league that is embracing Platform Computing, a software from IBM Systems & Technology Group.  Also sometimes known Elastic Storage for Software Defined Environment. It helps to maximize the potential of computing power by pooling resources, managing them efficiently across multiple groups, so that one can run many iterations, simulations and analytics to get business results fast.  This is the winning formula to harness the benefits of unstructured data and data explosion.

We are glad to be the technology innovation partner that drives the winning Formula One car.  Technology - platform computing technology - is the secret to winning!

Catch Al's interview: https://plus.google.com/101708759635909645335/posts/MmgQDhqx3Yj
Read more: http://www.slideshare.net/annephey/blog-2014-1016-infiniti-red-bulls-secrets-to-winning-f1-races

Catch Serena William's Victory Jump at US Tennis Open!

US Tennis Open Fans All Over The World Caught Serena Williams' Victory Jump Real Time!

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.