Big data is growing rapidly as 80% of the world's data today is unstructured and was created in just the last two years. While business leaders need access to more data for competitive advantage, 83% of CIOs cited business intelligence and analytics as important. IBM's System x reference architectures can help companies enhance performance, improve flexibility, and interpret vast amounts of heterogeneous data in real time to gain competitive advantage through analytics.

1. Why Big Data?
Sources
1. GigaOM, Software Group, IBM Institute for Business Value, 2012.
http://cornelldsp.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Watson%20Customer%20Presentation.pdf
2. http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/bigdata/
3. University of Ontario Institute of Technology: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lt0hTNtjrY&list=PL783389D2F81FFAB5
4. STAC Report, 11/12: http://public.dhe.ibm.com/common/ssi/ecm/en/dcl12351usen/DCL12351USEN.PDF
of the world’s data was
created in the last two years 1
80%
of the
world’s data
today is
unstructured 2
business leaders
do not have access
to data they need
2
83% of CIOs cited BI
and analytics as part
of their visionary plan
1
of companies
use analytics for
competitive advantage
1
IBM System x®
Reference Architectures
Delivering business insights with speed and flexibility
2010 2011 2012
90%
Enhance performance Improve platform flexibility
Interpret vast amounts of heterogeneous
data in real time
3
Achieve up to 9x the performance
of open-source Hadoop with
enhanced scheduler
4
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4x 5x 6x
7x 8x 9x
Simplify deployment
Utilize IBM System x hardware to leverage
IBM software and services in standardized
blueprints created from IBM enterprise
experience and expertise.
Hardware
Software
Services
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March 2013