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IBM PureSystems
IBM PureFlex System
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© 2012 IBM Corporation2
IT Needs
• Deliver new
capabilities faster
• Shift resources from
maintenance to
transformation
• Control growing
complexity
What are today’s pressures and realities
Business Demands
• Address opportunities
more quickly
• Drive business
innovation
• Leverage technology
more strategically
Consumerization
• Mobility
• Social business
• Iterative solutions
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You experience the barriers of time, cost and risk today
Aligning IT and business goals
• Driving business
innovation
• Make new markets
• Respond to competitive
threats
• Enhance the customer
experience
Getting Up and Running
Takes months:
• Specify/Design
• Procure
• Integrate
• Deploy
Development Operations
Takes 30-90 days:
• Provision • Configure
Ongoing Effort
Takes months and requires
downtime:
• Customize/Tune
• Scale
• Manage
• Maintain
• Upgrade
IT Reality
Business Goals
Grow top and
bottom line by:
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Clients have tried various approaches to close the gap
Client-tuned
Systems Appliances Cloud
Flexibility
Control
Simplicity
Rapid Deployment
Agility
Elasticity
Time and
Expense
Required
Single Purpose
Shared
Dependence
What if you could have the best of all three?
Benefits
Challenges
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Traditional Systems
Expert Integrated System
You have to
put these small pieces
together from scratch
How long will this take you to complete?
It has Bigger piece preintegrated
Simpler
Automated
Control
How long will this take you?
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Integration by Design
Deeply integrating and tuning
hardware and software – in a
ready-to-go workload optimized
system
Built-in Expertise
Capturing and automating
what experts do – from
infrastructure patterns to
application patterns
Simplified Experience
Making every part of the IT lifecycle easier - with
integrated management of the entire system and a broad
open ecosystem of optimized solutions
The time has come for a new breed of systems
Systems with integrated expertise and built for cloud
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Announcing the First Two Members of the IBM PureSystems Family
Infrastructure System:
Expert at sensing and
anticipating resource
needs to optimize your
infrastructure
Platform System:
Expert at optimally
deploying and running
applications for rapid
time-to-value
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What can it mean for clients?
Agility
• Get up and running in hours, cutting
months off deployment time of new
application projects.
Efficiency
• Deploy twice as many applications per
square foot of data center space
• Accelerate industry capabilities with
solutions from a broad open ecosystem • Save applicable IT costs over
traditional IT approaches
Control
• Lower risk and costs with automated
• Maximize flexibility with choice of
architectures, and open standards
• Intelligently manage cloud
environments
Simplicity
• Avoid delays due to limited IT skills or
complex integration with factory integration
and built-in expertise
• Free up time from procuring,
supporting, testing & deploying assets
• Cut lifecycle maintenance time in half
with no downtime
• Elastically adapt to workload
spikes without overbuying
• Maintain more quickly and easily with
integrated system patches
provisioning and seamless scalability
with security and resiliency
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IBM PureSystems Centre • Optimized solutions from 100+ leading ISV
partners
• Search by solution area, industry or system.
• Gain access to ISV application patterns for
trial and production.
• Certified through ‘Ready for IBM
PureSystems’ program.
• All of your existing AIX, IBM i, Linux and
Windows applications will run on IBM
PureFlex System
The SAP logo is a trademark or registered trademark of SAP AG in Germany and
several other countries and is reproduced with the permission of SAP AG.
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What’s inside?
The Anatomy of the IBM PureFlex System
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The first members of a new family of expert integrated systems with:
• Built-in expertise to address complex business and operational tasks automatically
• Integration by design to tune systems for optimal performance and efficiency
• Simplified experience from design to purchase to maintenance
• Optimized for performance and virtualized for efficiency
• No compromise design with system level upgradability
• Designed for cloud with flexibility and simplicity
IBM PureFlex Systems
IBM PureFlex
System
Expert at: sensing and
anticipating resource
needs to optimize your
infrastructure
• Factory integrated
and optimized system
infrastructure
• Integrated management
• Automation and
optimization expertise
Up to 66%
faster setup time
Up to 300%
increased
performance of
critical applications
Up to 2X
applications per
square foot
Up to 43%
energy savings
Up to 53%lower
management costs
Up to 2X
improvement in
system utilization
Estimated Results. Results will vary depending on customer environment.
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IBM Flex System Enterprise Chassis
• 4 scalable switch bays
• 10U Chassis, 14 bays
• Standard and Full width node support
• Up to 6 2500W power supplies N+N or N+1
configurations
• Up to 8 cooling fans (scalable)
• Integrated chassis management through CMM
FRONT
Power
Supplies (6X)
Scalable Switch Bays
10 U
Fans CMM
14 Node
Bays
(7 Full Wide)
Standard Nodebays
Integrated
Storwize V7000
REAR
Integration without compromise, designed for the next decade
Chassis Highlights
Infrastructure supporting multi fabrics,
Ethernet, FCoE, Fibre Channel
◊
Energy efficient cooling
and power system
◊
Multi-chassis management
◊
Easy to use with integrated single-
point management
◊
Designed to support future
advancements in I/O, processors,
memory, and storage
Storage Node
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Integrated Infrastructure
Designed for future generations of technology
10U Chassis
14 Node Bays
1 System for compute,
storage and systems networking
Up to 896 cores, 43 TB memory,
480 TB storage and 26M IO
operations per second, per rack
Up to 4 chassis per rack
scalable up to 4 racks
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Integrated Compute Nodes
No compromise designs for full performance
Support multiple architectures
using up to 14 POWER7 or x86
nodes per chassis
Support for applications across
4 operating environments
Secure startup for both physical
and virtual environments
x86
Linux
®
,Windows
®
POWER7
AIX
®
, i
®
, Linux
®
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Storwize
V7000
Virtualize existing storage – IBM’s
or competitor’s - and migrate data
without disruption
Optimize application performance
with Flash storage and Intelligent
Storage Tiering
Double storage efficiency and
improve transactional performance
up to 300%
Integrated Storage
Store more for less
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Integrated Systems Networking
Pay as you grow scalability
Ethernet
40Gb uplinks
10Gb, 1Gb
FCoE
Fibre
Channel
16Gb, 8Gb
Infiniband
QDR, FDR
Low latency, terabit switching and
network bandwidth-on-demand
Virtual Machine Ready networking
80Gb of Ethernet bandwidth and
network intelligence to every
compute and storage node
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Integrated Networking…Design Matters
Scale-in Systems Networking designed for virtualization and cloud
1/2 the latency by avoiding
most top of rack traffic
Fewer servers required to
overcome bottlenecks
Faster VM migrations
for better pooling and
cloud performance
Aggregation
Layer
Access
Layer
Layer 2
SAN
Core Layer
Wide Area
Network
>75%
<25%
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Simplified Management Experience
Management integration across all physical and virtual resources
Chassis Map*
Single management console for all resources
Manage workloads while the system
automatically manages resources
Thousands of end points at your fingertips
with Quick Find
Flex System Manager
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Applications
Storage
Networking
Virtualization
ManagementCompute
Tools
Flexible and open choice in a fully integrated system
IBM PureFlex System is Integrated by design
Expert
Integrated
Systems
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Flex System Building Blocks
Compute
Nodes
Storage
Node
Management
Appliance
Networking
Expansion
IBM PureFlex System
Pre-configured, pre-
integrated infrastructure
systems with compute,
storage, networking, physical
and virtual management, and
entry cloud management
with integrated expertise.
Chassis
IBM PureApplication System
Pre-configured, pre-
integrated platform systems
with middleware designed for
transactional web
applications and enabled for
cloud with integrated
expertise.
Starts at Acquisition: A continuum of value
from building blocks to systems
Simplified experience
Reduce time, effort and risk throughout the solution lifecycle Expert
Integrated
Systems
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Express Standard Enterprise
 Pre-configured, pre-integrated systems with servers, storage and networking
 Includes Flex System Manager for integrated management across all virtual resources
 Available in predefined starting points delivered integrated and tested
Packaging for IBM PureFlex Systems Foundation editions
Flexibility and simplicity extends from acquisition to deployment
 All configurations are Cloud ready with addition of SmartCloud Entry software
 Choice of IBM POWER7 or Intel x86 processors
 Any combination of PowerVM, KVM, VMware, or Microsoft HyperV
 Choice of AIX, IBM i, Microsoft Windows®
, and Linux from Red Hat, SUSE
 10Gb Network Switch
 8Gb Fibre Chan. Sw.
 2 Power / 4 Fans
 NGP System Manager
 V7000 Storage Controller
 Compute Node (x or power)
 Services
 10Gb Network Switch
 2 16Gb Fibre Chan Sw.
 4 Power / 6 Fans
 NGP Sys Mgr Advanced
 V7000 Storage Controller
 2x SSDs
 Compute Node (x or power)
 Gold Support Services
 2 10Gb Network Switch
 2 16Gb Fibre Chan Sw.
 6 Power / 8 Fans
 NGP Sys Mgr Advanced &
Redundancy Option
 V7000 Storage Controller
 2x SSDs
 Compute Node (x or power)
 Platinum Support Services
Optimized for small and
midsize businesses.
Most affordable
entry point.
Optimized for application
servers with supporting
storage and networking.
Optimized for transactional
and database systems.
Redundancy for
resilient operation.
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Services packaging for PureFlex Systems
Foundation services integrated into bundle
Power
Configuration
Hybrid
Configuration
System x
Configuration
High Availability Support
w/ Account Advocate(24x7)
Microcode Support
Hardware Warranty 3yr/24x7
Essential Support
w/Account Advocate(9x5)
Microcode Support
Hardware Warranty 3yr/24x7
Base Support
Access to FSM Competency
Center for Integrated Support
Hardware Warranty 3yr/9x5
High Availability Support
w/ Account Advocate(24x7)
Microcode Support
Hardware Warranty 3yr/24x7
Essential Support
w/Account Advocate(9x5)
Microcode Support
Hardware Warranty 3yr/24x7
Base Support
Access to FSM Competency
Center for Integrated Support
Hardware Warranty 3yr/9x5
3 days – Basic Jump Start
 Remote Planning Session
 Configure NGP Mgmt Node
 Discovery, Inventory, ESA Setup
 Configure V7000
5 days – All of Express plus
 Simplify Workload Deployment
 Virtual Server Provisioning
 Additional Mgmt Features
 Skills Transfer
ExpressExpress
EnterpriseEnterprise
StandardStandard
7 days – All of Standard plus
 Configure System Pools
 Populate Virtual Appliance
 Simplify Network Integration
 Simplify SCE implementation
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    © 2012 IBMCorporation IBM PureSystems IBM PureFlex System Download this slide http://ouo.io/DI5Rc Du Ngoc Thien Client Technical Specialist [email protected]
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    © 2012 IBMCorporation2 IT Needs • Deliver new capabilities faster • Shift resources from maintenance to transformation • Control growing complexity What are today’s pressures and realities Business Demands • Address opportunities more quickly • Drive business innovation • Leverage technology more strategically Consumerization • Mobility • Social business • Iterative solutions
  • 3.
    © 2012 IBMCorporation3 You experience the barriers of time, cost and risk today Aligning IT and business goals • Driving business innovation • Make new markets • Respond to competitive threats • Enhance the customer experience Getting Up and Running Takes months: • Specify/Design • Procure • Integrate • Deploy Development Operations Takes 30-90 days: • Provision • Configure Ongoing Effort Takes months and requires downtime: • Customize/Tune • Scale • Manage • Maintain • Upgrade IT Reality Business Goals Grow top and bottom line by:
  • 4.
    © 2012 IBMCorporation4 Clients have tried various approaches to close the gap Client-tuned Systems Appliances Cloud Flexibility Control Simplicity Rapid Deployment Agility Elasticity Time and Expense Required Single Purpose Shared Dependence What if you could have the best of all three? Benefits Challenges
  • 5.
    © 2012 IBMCorporation5 Traditional Systems Expert Integrated System You have to put these small pieces together from scratch How long will this take you to complete? It has Bigger piece preintegrated Simpler Automated Control How long will this take you?
  • 6.
    © 2012 IBMCorporation6 Integration by Design Deeply integrating and tuning hardware and software – in a ready-to-go workload optimized system Built-in Expertise Capturing and automating what experts do – from infrastructure patterns to application patterns Simplified Experience Making every part of the IT lifecycle easier - with integrated management of the entire system and a broad open ecosystem of optimized solutions The time has come for a new breed of systems Systems with integrated expertise and built for cloud
  • 7.
    © 2012 IBMCorporation7 Announcing the First Two Members of the IBM PureSystems Family Infrastructure System: Expert at sensing and anticipating resource needs to optimize your infrastructure Platform System: Expert at optimally deploying and running applications for rapid time-to-value
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    © 2012 IBMCorporation8 What can it mean for clients? Agility • Get up and running in hours, cutting months off deployment time of new application projects. Efficiency • Deploy twice as many applications per square foot of data center space • Accelerate industry capabilities with solutions from a broad open ecosystem • Save applicable IT costs over traditional IT approaches Control • Lower risk and costs with automated • Maximize flexibility with choice of architectures, and open standards • Intelligently manage cloud environments Simplicity • Avoid delays due to limited IT skills or complex integration with factory integration and built-in expertise • Free up time from procuring, supporting, testing & deploying assets • Cut lifecycle maintenance time in half with no downtime • Elastically adapt to workload spikes without overbuying • Maintain more quickly and easily with integrated system patches provisioning and seamless scalability with security and resiliency
  • 9.
    © 2012 IBMCorporation9 IBM PureSystems Centre • Optimized solutions from 100+ leading ISV partners • Search by solution area, industry or system. • Gain access to ISV application patterns for trial and production. • Certified through ‘Ready for IBM PureSystems’ program. • All of your existing AIX, IBM i, Linux and Windows applications will run on IBM PureFlex System The SAP logo is a trademark or registered trademark of SAP AG in Germany and several other countries and is reproduced with the permission of SAP AG.
  • 10.
    © 2012 IBMCorporation10 What’s inside? The Anatomy of the IBM PureFlex System
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    © 2012 IBMCorporation11 The first members of a new family of expert integrated systems with: • Built-in expertise to address complex business and operational tasks automatically • Integration by design to tune systems for optimal performance and efficiency • Simplified experience from design to purchase to maintenance • Optimized for performance and virtualized for efficiency • No compromise design with system level upgradability • Designed for cloud with flexibility and simplicity IBM PureFlex Systems IBM PureFlex System Expert at: sensing and anticipating resource needs to optimize your infrastructure • Factory integrated and optimized system infrastructure • Integrated management • Automation and optimization expertise Up to 66% faster setup time Up to 300% increased performance of critical applications Up to 2X applications per square foot Up to 43% energy savings Up to 53%lower management costs Up to 2X improvement in system utilization Estimated Results. Results will vary depending on customer environment.
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    © 2012 IBMCorporation12 IBM Flex System Enterprise Chassis • 4 scalable switch bays • 10U Chassis, 14 bays • Standard and Full width node support • Up to 6 2500W power supplies N+N or N+1 configurations • Up to 8 cooling fans (scalable) • Integrated chassis management through CMM FRONT Power Supplies (6X) Scalable Switch Bays 10 U Fans CMM 14 Node Bays (7 Full Wide) Standard Nodebays Integrated Storwize V7000 REAR Integration without compromise, designed for the next decade Chassis Highlights Infrastructure supporting multi fabrics, Ethernet, FCoE, Fibre Channel ◊ Energy efficient cooling and power system ◊ Multi-chassis management ◊ Easy to use with integrated single- point management ◊ Designed to support future advancements in I/O, processors, memory, and storage Storage Node
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    © 2012 IBMCorporation13 Integrated Infrastructure Designed for future generations of technology 10U Chassis 14 Node Bays 1 System for compute, storage and systems networking Up to 896 cores, 43 TB memory, 480 TB storage and 26M IO operations per second, per rack Up to 4 chassis per rack scalable up to 4 racks
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    © 2012 IBMCorporation14 Integrated Compute Nodes No compromise designs for full performance Support multiple architectures using up to 14 POWER7 or x86 nodes per chassis Support for applications across 4 operating environments Secure startup for both physical and virtual environments x86 Linux ® ,Windows ® POWER7 AIX ® , i ® , Linux ®
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    © 2012 IBMCorporation15 Storwize V7000 Virtualize existing storage – IBM’s or competitor’s - and migrate data without disruption Optimize application performance with Flash storage and Intelligent Storage Tiering Double storage efficiency and improve transactional performance up to 300% Integrated Storage Store more for less
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    © 2012 IBMCorporation16 Integrated Systems Networking Pay as you grow scalability Ethernet 40Gb uplinks 10Gb, 1Gb FCoE Fibre Channel 16Gb, 8Gb Infiniband QDR, FDR Low latency, terabit switching and network bandwidth-on-demand Virtual Machine Ready networking 80Gb of Ethernet bandwidth and network intelligence to every compute and storage node
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    © 2012 IBMCorporation17 Integrated Networking…Design Matters Scale-in Systems Networking designed for virtualization and cloud 1/2 the latency by avoiding most top of rack traffic Fewer servers required to overcome bottlenecks Faster VM migrations for better pooling and cloud performance Aggregation Layer Access Layer Layer 2 SAN Core Layer Wide Area Network >75% <25%
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    © 2012 IBMCorporation18 Simplified Management Experience Management integration across all physical and virtual resources Chassis Map* Single management console for all resources Manage workloads while the system automatically manages resources Thousands of end points at your fingertips with Quick Find Flex System Manager
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    © 2012 IBMCorporation19 Applications Storage Networking Virtualization ManagementCompute Tools Flexible and open choice in a fully integrated system IBM PureFlex System is Integrated by design Expert Integrated Systems
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    © 2012 IBMCorporation20 Flex System Building Blocks Compute Nodes Storage Node Management Appliance Networking Expansion IBM PureFlex System Pre-configured, pre- integrated infrastructure systems with compute, storage, networking, physical and virtual management, and entry cloud management with integrated expertise. Chassis IBM PureApplication System Pre-configured, pre- integrated platform systems with middleware designed for transactional web applications and enabled for cloud with integrated expertise. Starts at Acquisition: A continuum of value from building blocks to systems Simplified experience Reduce time, effort and risk throughout the solution lifecycle Expert Integrated Systems
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    © 2012 IBMCorporation21 Express Standard Enterprise  Pre-configured, pre-integrated systems with servers, storage and networking  Includes Flex System Manager for integrated management across all virtual resources  Available in predefined starting points delivered integrated and tested Packaging for IBM PureFlex Systems Foundation editions Flexibility and simplicity extends from acquisition to deployment  All configurations are Cloud ready with addition of SmartCloud Entry software  Choice of IBM POWER7 or Intel x86 processors  Any combination of PowerVM, KVM, VMware, or Microsoft HyperV  Choice of AIX, IBM i, Microsoft Windows® , and Linux from Red Hat, SUSE  10Gb Network Switch  8Gb Fibre Chan. Sw.  2 Power / 4 Fans  NGP System Manager  V7000 Storage Controller  Compute Node (x or power)  Services  10Gb Network Switch  2 16Gb Fibre Chan Sw.  4 Power / 6 Fans  NGP Sys Mgr Advanced  V7000 Storage Controller  2x SSDs  Compute Node (x or power)  Gold Support Services  2 10Gb Network Switch  2 16Gb Fibre Chan Sw.  6 Power / 8 Fans  NGP Sys Mgr Advanced & Redundancy Option  V7000 Storage Controller  2x SSDs  Compute Node (x or power)  Platinum Support Services Optimized for small and midsize businesses. Most affordable entry point. Optimized for application servers with supporting storage and networking. Optimized for transactional and database systems. Redundancy for resilient operation.
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    © 2012 IBMCorporation22 Services packaging for PureFlex Systems Foundation services integrated into bundle Power Configuration Hybrid Configuration System x Configuration High Availability Support w/ Account Advocate(24x7) Microcode Support Hardware Warranty 3yr/24x7 Essential Support w/Account Advocate(9x5) Microcode Support Hardware Warranty 3yr/24x7 Base Support Access to FSM Competency Center for Integrated Support Hardware Warranty 3yr/9x5 High Availability Support w/ Account Advocate(24x7) Microcode Support Hardware Warranty 3yr/24x7 Essential Support w/Account Advocate(9x5) Microcode Support Hardware Warranty 3yr/24x7 Base Support Access to FSM Competency Center for Integrated Support Hardware Warranty 3yr/9x5 3 days – Basic Jump Start  Remote Planning Session  Configure NGP Mgmt Node  Discovery, Inventory, ESA Setup  Configure V7000 5 days – All of Express plus  Simplify Workload Deployment  Virtual Server Provisioning  Additional Mgmt Features  Skills Transfer ExpressExpress EnterpriseEnterprise StandardStandard 7 days – All of Standard plus  Configure System Pools  Populate Virtual Appliance  Simplify Network Integration  Simplify SCE implementation
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Editor's Notes

  • #11 Now that we’ve covered the attributes of this new system and the client benefits, let’s take a look at what’s inside the new IBM PureFlex System.
  • #12 Speaker Notes: IBM PureFlex System Expert at sensing and anticipating resource needs to optimize your infrastructure Factory integrated and optimized system infrastructure Integrated management Automation and optimization expertise All PureFlex systems are: Fully optimized Born virtualized Have a no compromise design with system level upgradability Are designed for cloud
  • #14 First, we&amp;apos;ll start with the integrated infrastructure. IBM offers you one system that brings your resources together. It&amp;apos;s designed for future generations of technology. It delivers energy efficient power and cooling, which is key to getting the maximum performance out of all the components over future generations. And, unlike a lot of other solutions, we support multiple architectures, but don&amp;apos;t require a lot of expensive, non standard components. IBM PureFlex System provides incredible capacity for compute, memory, and storage with a high-level of IO operations in a single rack – with the ability to have up to four full racks in a single system.
  • #15 No compromise designs for integrated compute nodes that support POWER7 or x86 architectures provide the performance behind the IBM PureFlex System. It allows you to share your network, storage and other resources across Power and X86 applications. And we&amp;apos;ve built in the security so that when you start the system up, it&amp;apos;s doing all the validation and checks across the physical and virtual environments to reduce risk and save administrator time in configuring security.
  • #16 Now let&amp;apos;s look at storage. Storage is integrated right into the PureFlex System with IBM’s Storewize V7000 and, later, as an even more tightly integrated storage node that goes right into the integrated infrastructure eliminating cables and simplifying configuration. Either option is integrated directly into the PureFlex System, providing integrated management across storage, compute and systems networking resources. In addition you will be able to lower storage costs because your new and existing storage is fully virtualized; and you can migrate data without disruption from older, slower devices to new devices. We maximize the performance and minimize the cost with the built-in expertise of intelligent tiering and smart data placement – across all virtualized storage. The Storwize V7000’s backup and recovery capabilities can help protect your data so that you get business continuity and the ability to recover in case of a disaster.
  • #17 So what about networking? IBM is focusing on systems networking – the networking built-in to the system to provide maximum bandwidth between all elements of the system with high performance. This high performance networking can provide up to 80 gigabits of bandwidth per compute or storage node maximizing performance for virtualized, cloud environments. And you don&amp;apos;t have to buy it all right away. You can pay as you grow because we have some of the industry&amp;apos;s first scalable switches with industry‑leading bandwidth. Virtualization is built right in, with virtual machine ready capabilities tracking the IP addresses as virtual machines move around the various resource pools in the system. And unlike some other options you may have, it also works with your existing network infrastructure -- whether you have one or 10‑gigabit Ethernet, fiber channel or Infiniband. Our solution is offering up to 16‑gigabit fiber channel capability and full data rate Infiniband . This is truly industry‑leading scale-in, systems networking.
  • #18 Now let’s look at how the design of our PureFlex Systems makes a difference. Most people don&amp;apos;t realize that most of the traffic that&amp;apos;s going to occur in these virtualized systems - over 75 percent - is going to be between nodes in the system. That’s because of the virtualization we&amp;apos;re doing… and the virtual machines moving around within the cloud and system pools and applications talking to each other. Less than 25 percent of system network traffic actually goes up and down between the system and the top of rack switch. So by eliminating nearly 75% of the data from having to go to the top of rack switch, the system can cut the latency in half. Because you get better throughput, you have fewer servers that are trying to overcome the bottlenecks in the network; and, you get faster virtual machine migrations to really take advantage of the system pooling capability we’ve provided and provide the cloud performance you need.
  • #19 Simplified management can vastly improve the experience you have with a system. For example, you can see here just how some of the new user interface features we&amp;apos;ve designed in our new Flex System Manager give you direct access to resources within the infrastructure – both physical and virtual resources. We have built a new chassis map that gives you fast, direct access to the components in the system. The system pool dashboard gives you a view of all your workloads and the virtualized resource pools in which they are running. And a new quick find feature lets you easily locate any of thousands of managed end points. The Flex System Manager provides one management console for all your resources; its unique integration across physical, virtual and workloads provides new capabilities not found in other systems such as automated maintenance modes that are virtualization aware. You can start to manage workloads and let the system automatically manage IT resources. Security comes preset from the factory so that the people who need to be doing management are doing the tasks that you want them to do.
  • #22 Now let’s review some of our Troy NGP offerings. We can sell NGP piece parts but at GA of NGP that will not allow us to neutralize the Cisco UCS “ease of use” advantage. However, on day 1, we are also delivering the flexible, pre-built and integrated NGP bundles called the Foundation offerings. There are, of course, 3 different sizes, each of which has different minimum capabilities, but all can support both POWER and x86 nodes. Because many of the planned features of NGP System Manager will not be available on day 1, I would strongly encourage you to sell SmartCloud Entry with each Foundation solution in order to maximize the ease of use, deployment and management attributes of the solution while delivering on the promise of a more agile, flexible and responsive data center that can meet new demands from the business quickly. Note that our packaging of the Foundation Editions is somewhat analogous to Cisco VCE Vblocks and HP VirtualSystems but we have some advantages relative to their offerings. If I neglect to discuss these on the next chart, please remind me to do so. CLICK to Advance
  • #23 Theme for Express:Entry level, Get started – Get Going Theme for Standard:Simplifying application and workload deployments using integrated management (FSM)   Theme for Enterprise:Ready the infrastructure for Cloud enablement