This is a presentation held at eLiberatica 2009. http://www.eliberatica.ro/2009/ One of the biggest events of its kind in Eastern Europe, eLiberatica brings community leaders from around the world to discuss about the hottest topics in FLOSS movement, demonstrating the advantages of adopting, using and developing Open Source and Free Software solutions. The eLiberatica organizational committee together with our speakers and guests, have graciously allowed media representatives and all attendees to photograph, videotape and otherwise record their sessions, on the condition that the photos, videos and recordings are licensed under the Creative Commons Share-Alike 3.0 License.

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Open Source, Linux and
a Smarter Planet
Adam Jollans
Open Source Strategy Manager
IBM Software Group
May 2009
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Global forces are driving a fundamentally different world
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Global financial crisis is changing business
priorities – and the IT that supports them
– New incentives to reduce cost
– Financial crisis putting new lens on TCO claims
● The business landscape is evolving, and
IT must ev olve with it
– Increased M&A activity in a tight economy
requires rapid integration
● Government IT priorities are increasingly
aligned with those of business
– Major stimulus packages include both funding
for IT infrastructure – and increased scrutiny
● Technology has enabled solutions that
weren't feasible in the last downturn
– Bandwidth has evolved, providing greater
capacity and reliability at much lower costs
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Why is Linux important in the new global economic reality?
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Linux continues to grow rapidly in share,
scale, and scope, even in the downturn
– 10 years have passed since IBM's initial
public commitment to Linux
– Linux continues to gain features that enable it
to address broadening market opportunities
– Robust ecosystem enables lower cost,
Linux-based alternatives to proprietary solutions
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Unique attributes of Linux enable novel
simplification strategies to reduce cost
– Linux enables clients to choose the platform
that makes the most sense
– When consolidating IT operations during
M&A activity, Linux can enable asset reuse
– Consolidating on Linux can reduce OS licensing
costs (and CALs), generating savings up to 50%
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Linux is fundamental to the cloud
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Something Meaningful is Happening…
Every human being, company, organization, city, nation,
natural system and man-made system is becoming
interconnected, instrumented and intelligent.
This is leading to new savings and efficiency—but perhaps
as important, new possibilities for progress.
The world is
flatter.
The world is Because it can.
smaller. Because it must.
The world is Because we want it
getting smarter.
to.
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The World Must Get Smarter
40 - 70 percent of electrical energy is lost due to
inefficiencies in the grid.
In one small business district in Los Angeles alone, cars
burned 47,000 gallons of gasoline just looking for parking.
Consumer products and retail industries lose about $40
billion annually due to inefficient supply chains.
In a world where 820 million people are undernourished,
$48 billion worth of food is thrown away each year in the
US.
Our healthcare “system” can’t link from diagnosis to drug
discovery, providers, insurers, employers and patients.
Financial markets spread risk but can’t track it; this has led
to undermined confidence and uncertainty.
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For us to make sense of this new world, we must consider
four critical questions
“Data is exploding “New business & “My infrastructure is “Our resources
and it’s in silos” process demands” inflexible and costly” are limited”
I need insight I need to work I need to respond I need efficiency
smart quickly
How can we take How can we work How do we create How do we drive
advantage of the smarter supported an infrastructure greater efficiencies,
wealth of by flexible and that drives down compete more
information dynamic cost, is intelligent effectively, and
available in real processes and secure, and is respond more quickly
time from a modeled for the just as dynamic as by taking action now
multitude of new way people today’s business on energy, the
sources to make buy, live & work? climate ? environment, and
more intelligent sustainability?
choices?
New Smart Dynamic Green &
Intelligence Work Infrastructure Beyond
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Linux is a Catalyst
Linux is helping to create a smarter planet
Instrumented Interconnected Intelligent
Linux enables Linux powers Linux drives the
mobile phones, routers, hubs, ESBs world’s most powerful
traffic sensors, and and servers around super-computers
GPS devices the world
Example: Google Example: Nokia Example: IBM Roadrunner
Android Mobile Phone Home Control Center petaflop supercomputer
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What's Special about Linux?
 Linux supports multiple hardware platforms
– Spanning from embedded devices to supercomputers
– Speed of support for new platforms
– Availability of skills, portability of applications
– Scale-out through clustering as well as scale-up through SMP
 Linux has an affinity with virtualization
– Supported on all major hypervisors, from z/VM to VMware and Hyper-V
– Ability to be paravirtualized with Xen
– Inclusion of KVM as part of Linux
 Linux is flexible
– Modular and customizable, with flexible usage licensing
 Linux is developed by an open community
– Sharing skills and resources, leading to faster development
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Virtualized Linux is helping to enable Dynamic Infrastructure
 Linux’s cross-platform support combined with In today's economy, we
Virtualization enables smarter hardware need dynamic
decisions infrastructures that
– Virtualization systems management software drive down costs, and
– Application virtualization and consolidation are intelligent and
– Virtualization Hypervisors - VMWare, Xen, KVM, secure.
PowerVM, and z/VM
– Linux support for x86, RISC, Mainframe
 Bank of Russia consolidated 200 distributed
servers in 74 data centers across 11 time
zones into just four mainframes in two data
centers.
– IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON, IBM WebSphere MQ,
IBM z/VM, IBM System z9 Enterprise Class, Linux
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Real-Time Linux is helping to enable Dynamic Infrastructure
 Real-Time Linux and Java are being used In today's economy, we
to guarantee fast data and intelligence need dynamic
for optimal decision-making infrastructures that
– Real-Time Linux kernels drive down costs, and
– Real-Time Java runtime environment are intelligent and
secure.
– Certified x86 servers
 IBM and Raytheon won the Red Hat
Innovator of the Year Award in 2008 for
their work with the US Navy for the next
generation of destroyers
– IBM WebSphere Real-Time, IBM
Bladecenters, Red Hat MRG (includes Real-
Time Linux kernel)
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SOA and Linux are helping to enable Smart Work
 Linux’s flexible cross-platform support Today's organizations
combined with SOA Architecture supports can work smarter,
dynamic business processes supported by flexible
– SOA runtime and development software processes modeled for
– Linux multiplatform support and virtualization the new way people
affinity buy, live and work.
– Processors from embedded to x86 to mainframe
 Servicio Extremeño de Salud, the regional
public health authority in the Extremadura
region of Spain, linked patients, doctors and
hospitals with an SOA system to improve the
quality, efficiency and delivery of healthcare
– IBM WebSphere Business Integration, IBM
POWER Systems, SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server, SAP for Healthcare
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Open Clients on Linux are helping to enable Smart Work
 Open Collaboration Clients on Linux are Today's organizations
saving users money on proprietary can work smarter,
software, improving security and enabling supported by flexible
better collaboration processes modeled for
– Productivity, email and collaboration software the new way people
– Linux client support buy, live and work.
– Virtual Linux Desktops
 Gruppo Amadori, a leading food producer in
Italy, improved collaboration and cut costs
when it migrated both clients and servers to
Linux
– IBM Lotus Notes, IBM Lotus Symphony, IBM
Lotus Domino, IBM Tivoli Provisioning
Manager, Red Hat Linux
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Linux and Data Analysis are helping to enable New Intelligence
 High performance databases on Linux Today, more than ever,
clusters are enabling real-time data streaming organizations are under
and near-instant analysis pressure to leverage a
– Clustered and high-performance databases wealth of information to
– Business intelligence software make more intelligent
– Linux and clustering choices.
– Clustered x86 and RISC servers
 IMPIRE AG replicates data instantaneously
across multiple servers and supports
German, Swiss and Austrian TV sports
channel requirements for live broadcasting of
sports replays and analyses.
– IBM Informix Dynamic Server, IBM DB2 Data
Warehouse, IBM BladeCenters, and Red Hat
Enterprise Linux
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Linux and Consolidation are helping to enable Green & Beyond
 Consolidation of workloads with virtualized Today, businesses
Linux onto Mainframe, RISC and large x86 understand the need to
systems enables higher utilization along with
energy and cost savings drive greater
efficiencies by taking
– Energy and Virtualization Management software
action on energy, the
– Virtualization Hypervisors - VMWare, Xen, KVM,
PowerVM, and z/VM environment and
– Linux support for x86, RISC, Mainframe sustainability.
 Bank of New Zealand has consolidated from
distributed servers to Linux on mainframes –
reducing power consumption by 38%
– IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM
WebSphere ESB, IBM WebSphere Process
Server, IBM WebSphere MQ, IBM z/VM, IBM z9
and z10 mainframes, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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Linux and Open Source enable Cloud Computing
● Providing innovative solutions to the ● IBM helps Linux users reduce cost by
complexity (and cost) problem providing flexible utility computing
– IBM is a leader with Linux in cloud computing ●
Pay-as-you-go utility computing enables users
• Established a dedicated cloud organization to smooth IT expenditures over time
• 9 IBM Cloud Labs around the world ●
Replacing periodic capital expenditures with a
• 9 private cloud implementations predictable billing cycle reduces uncertainty
• 2 academic alliances ●
Add or remove incremental capacity without
introducing sprawl or maintaining idle resources
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IBM enables others to resell cloud services
Cloud ●
Consulting
Service ●
Implementation
Management Cloud Delivery
Advanced ●
Virtual ●
Private clouds can revolutionize IT budgets
Resource
Physical ●
Principles of utility computing – such as accurate
Pools
Consolidation measurement and billing – can transform IT from a
cost center into a cost recovery center
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The World is Getting
Smarter…
…and Linux is a
catalyst
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