This document discusses IBM Power Systems and their ability to enable cloud solutions. It provides an overview of Power8 architecture and performance advantages over Intel systems. It also discusses how Power Systems can be used to build hybrid cloud infrastructures with on-premises and off-premises components using technologies like PowerVC and Bluemix. Case studies on Oracle and SAP workloads show Power Systems provide better performance and lower TCO compared to x86 servers.

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IBM Power Systems – Enabling Cloud Solutions
11th January 2017
Presented by David Spurway
IBM Power Systems Product Manager
IBM Systems, UK and Ireland

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A surprise trip to Lisbon
An Insurance Story
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/surprise-
trip-lisbon-insurance-story-david-spurway

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I find myself in Lisbon…
• My Parents-In-Law set off on a cruise,
but Mother-In-Law is taken ill
• Hospitalised in Lisbon
• Insurance company take 12 days to
validate cover
• Father-In-Law is the real concern
• Twitter storm

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Insurance industry - Capturing hearts, minds and market share
How connected
insurers are
improving
customer
retention
http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/gbs/thoughtleadership/insuranceretention/

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Insurance is a product based on trust, for which perception
matters.

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Mix in some Bluemix and Watson…

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Unstructured Facebook entries in, Geo Political Entities out!
http://ibmlaser.mybluemix.net/siredemo.html

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Who & Where: Find out with Bluemix Geospatial Analytics
https://developer.ibm.com/bluemix/2014/12/17/find-bluemix-geospatial-analytics/

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But what does this have to do with IBM Power?
• Details of customers are on IBM
Power Systems
–Customer Details
–Declared Medical History
• Location, Sentiment, etc. are on
Social Media
• Other data could be available through
B2B APIs
• Hybrid Cloud solution could
differentiate from competition

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POWER8 Overview
Optimized for
Data
Open Innovation
Platform
Superior Cloud
Economics

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Off-premise
On-premise
VPN
SecurityServices
SecurityServices
Container
Systems of Record Systems of Engagement
Bluemix
AIX
RHEL
IBM i
IBM Systems Hybrid Cloud Reference Architecture

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IBM Power Systems Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure
On-Premises Cloud Hybrid Infrastructure
Complementary Built-in Cloud Deployment Service Options
Transform traditional infrastructure with automation,
self-service and elastic consumption models
Securely extend to Public Cloud with rapid access
to compute services and API integration
• OpenStack-based Cloud Management:
enabling DevOps to Full production
• Open source automation (installation and config.
recipes)
• Flexible elastic private cloud capacity and
consumption models
• Cross Data Center Inventory and Performance Monitoring via
the IBM Cloud
• Manage VMs across on and off-premises clouds with a
single pane of glass (e.g., VMware vRealize)
• Securely connect traditional workloads with cloud-
native apps (Power & API Connect, BlueMix)
• Optional DR as a Service (GDR for Power)
• Free access and capacity flexibility with SoftLayer
- Free SoftLayer starter pack (12 server months)
- Flexibility to run capacity On Premises or in SoftLayer
• Design for Cloud Provisioning and Automation
• Build for Infrastructure as a Service
• Build for Cloud Capacity Pools across Data Centers
• Design for Hybrid Cloud with BlueMix
• Deliver with automation for DevOps
• Deliver with Database as a Service

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CCI
(VMs)
Off-premise
On-premise
AIX
X
LINUX
IBM
i
VPN
Intel
SecurityServices
SecurityServices
Nova
PowerKVM
PowerVM
2.5
1.3
Novalink
HMC
Pre-POWER8
Nova Partition
OpenStack
Services
Nova API
Nova Core
POWER8
Power & Hybrid Cloud Architecture for IaaS with PowerVC & IBM Cloud Orchestrator
POWER8
PowerVM
LINUX
Baremetal
Intel
PowerKVM
Nov
a
LINUX
A
I
X
IBM
i

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Off-premiseOn-premise
AIX
X
LINUX
IBM
i
VPN
Baremetal
Intel
SecurityServices
SecurityServices
IBM PowerVC Cloud
Edition (openstack
liberty)
PowerVM
Power & Hybrid Cloud Architecture for IaaS with Openstack
Novalink
Nova
Partition
OpenStack
Services
Nova API
Nova Core
PowerKVM
Self Service Catalog Metering
Multitenancy
PowerVM
HMC
Nova
PowerKVM
LINUX
AIX
X
IBM
i
LINUX
Pre-POWER8 POWER8
POWER8

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Off-premiseOn-premise
AIX
RHE
L
IBM
i
Power & Hybrid Cloud Architecture for PaaS
VPN
Baremetal
Intel
SecurityServices
SecurityServices
Patterns
Creation
&
Deployment
Middleware&
Software
Service
Middleware &
Software
Engine
Patterns
Designer
Service
Patterns
Engine
UrbanCode
Deploy
Power
KVM
CCI
(VMs)
Intel
Novalink
Nova
Partition
OpenStack
Services
Nova API
Nova Core
Power
KVM

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POWER8 Overview
Optimized for
Data
Open Innovation
Platform
Superior Cloud
Economics

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Chip Bandwidth and Threading
2S=2 Socket, 4S=4 Socket, 8S=8 Socket, DCM=Dual Chip Module, SCM=Single Chip Module, Low Power Models Not Included, Updated 6/1/2015
Chip Family
Memory
Bandwidth
per Socket
Peak I/O
Bandwidth
per Socket
Threads
per
Core
Intel 26xx-V3 (2S, 8+ Cores) 59 – 68 GB/s 80 GB/s 1, 2
Intel 48xx-V3 (4S, 8+ Cores) 102 GB/s 64 GB/s 1, 2
Intel 88xx-V3 (8S, 8+ Cores) 102 GB/s 64 GB/s 1, 2
POWER8 (DCM, 8+ Cores) 192 GB/s 96 GB/s 1, 2, 4, 8
POWER8 (SCM, 8+ Cores) 230 GB/s 64 GB/s 1, 2, 4, 8

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POWER8 vs. Haswell Performance
Benchmark
Intel
E5 V3
Haswell
Best
Results POWER8
Best
Results
Per
Core
Ratio
SAP SD 2-Tier ERP 6
Dell PowerEdge R730
E5-2699 v3, 36 Core
16,500
IBM E870
80 Core
79,750 2.2 X
SPECjbb2013
Lenovo Flex x240
E5-2699 v3, 36 Core
245,178
IBM E870
80 Core
1,299,150 2.4 X
SPECint_rate2006
Dell PowerEdge T620
E5-2699 v3, 36 Core
1,400
IBM E880
64 Core
5,400 2.1 X
SPECfp_rate2006
Dell PowerEdge T620
E5-2699 v3, 36 Core
942
IBM E880
64 Core
4,470 2.5 X
Oracle e-BS 12.1.3
Extra Large Payroll
Cisco UCS C240 M4
E5-2697 v3, 28 Core
1,125,281
IBM S824
12 Core
1,090,909 2.3 X
IBM Power E870 on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark running SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application; 8 processors / 80 cores / 640 threads, POWER8; 4.19GHz, 2048 GB
memory, 79,750 SD benchmark users, running AIX® 7.1 and DB2® 10.5, dialog response: 0.97 seconds, order line items/hour: 8,722,000, dialog steps/hour: 26,166,000, SAPS: 436,100, Database response time
(dialog/update): 0.013 sec / 0.026 sec, CPU utilization: 99%, Cert #2014034. Result valid as of November 15, 2015. Source: http://www.sap.com/benchmark .
Dell PowerEdge R730, on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark running SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application; 2 processors/36 cores/72 threads, Intel Xeon Processor E5-2699v3;
2.30 GHz, 256 GB memory; 16,500 SD benchmark users, running RHEL 7 and SAP ASE 16; Certification # 2014033.
SPECjbb2013 results are submitted as of 12/01/2014. For more information go to http://www.specbench.org/jbb2013/results
SPECcpu2006 results are submitted as of 11/15/2015. For more information go to http://www.specbench.org/cpu2006/results
All results use Oracle eBS 12.1.3 Payroll Batch Extra Large Kit and are current as of 11/15/2015. For more information go to http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/benchmark/apps-benchmark/results-166922.html

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OLTP Server & Per Core Performance
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OLTP Perf Comparison
by Server
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OLTP Perf Comparison
per core

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Java Server & Per Core Performance
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Java Perf Comparison
per core

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Power S814 Power S824
Power S822
Power S812L Power
S822L
Scale-out Systems (1 & 2 sockets)
IBMPowerSystems
Enterprise Systems (4+ sockets)
Power E880CPower E870C
Power E850C
Power S824L
Power Systems Range
Operating Systems
or
Hypervisors Management

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AIX 7.2 Server Based Flash Caching
AIX Flash Cache Engine
Workload
Flash
/ SSD
AIX LPAR
SAN LUN LUN LUN
I/O APIs (File System, Device, etc.)
• Server caches SAN data in server attached storage
(SSDs, SAS attached drawer, FC connected flash, etc.)
• Cache is read-only to service application reads. Writes go
straight through to the SAN back-end.
• Potential benefits are performance (more transactions,
reduced response time), and/or improved scale and
efficiency of SAN infrastructure via SAN off-load
• For workloads that use RAM as a cache for I/O, smaller
RAM caches maybe be possible with a flash based cache
• Provides storage vendor agnostic I/O caching solution integrated into AIX
• Cache is transparent to workloads and requires no application code changes
• Supports virtualization features such as Live Partition Mobility
• LPM support requires VIOS 2.2.4 (Dec 2015)
• For more Information - https://ibm.biz/AIX72_Flash_Cache
IBM, EMC, Hitachi, etc.
Also available on AIX 7.1 TL4/SP2 (May 2016)

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SAN
cachedisk0 cachedisk2
Cache Pool
(SSD disks)
hdisk1 hdisk2 hdisk3 hdisk8
SSD
LPAR1
Virtualized: Flash LUN managed by VIOS
Cache
management
VIOS
LPAR2
Cache
Engine
Cache
Engine
Cache partition 1 Cache partition 2
LPM Capable
AIX 7.2 Flash Cache Configurations
* Requires VIOS 2.2.4 (Dec 2015)
Dedicated: Dedicated flash LUN
SAN
Cache Pool
(SSD disks)
hdisk1 hdisk2
hdisk3 hdisk8
Cache Partition
SSD
LPAR
CM /
Cache
Engine

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OLTP with 8 cores – 10 users
Flash Caching Example
AIX Flash Cache Engine
Workload
Flash /
SSD
AIX LPAR
SAN LUN LUN LUN
I/O APIs (File System, Device, ..)
IBM, EMC, Hitachi, etc.
IBM, EMC, Hitachi, etc.
Flash caching 33% of
database provides 77%
TPM improvement
IBM Montpellier Customer Benchmarking Center

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AIX 7.2 Next Generation AIX Live Update Technology
• Project Requirements
–Use existing maintenance model and administrative tools (NIM, geninstall)
–Start with live AIX kernel replacement for i-fixes, then in future extend to SPs and TLs
–Long term goal is to provide non-disruptive updates for all of AIX (kernel, commands, and Libs)
Original
rootvg
New rootvg
(Alt-disk-install)
VIOS
NPIV /
VSCSI
SEA
Original LPAR
Virt. ent
VSCSI
Surrogate LPAR
Virt. ent
CEC
Original
rootvg mirror
New rootvg
(Alt-disk-install)
Original Kernel Updated Kernel
VSCSI
Running
Workload
Running
Workload
Live Migration

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IBM AIX 7.2 offers new enhancements for reduced downtime,
acceleration, and efficient storage utilization
• https://www-
01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/5/877/
ENUSZP16-0525/index.html&lang=en&request_locale=en
–October 11, 2016
–#AIX 7.2 enhancements inc non-disruptive Live Kernal Update for SPs and TLs! Also
LVM thin storage block reclamation

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TCO Case with Oracle Database
£0.00
£2,000,000.00
£4,000,000.00
£6,000,000.00
£8,000,000.00
£10,000,000.00
£12,000,000.00
£14,000,000.00
£16,000,000.00
Oracle Oracle Server
X6-2 (2ch/44co Xeon
E5-2699 v4 2.2GHz)
Oracle Sun Server X5-
8 (8ch/144co Xeon
E7-8895 v3 2.60GHz)
IBM Power System
S824 (4ch/24co
POWER8 3.52GHz)
IBM Power System
E850C (8ch/48co
POWER8 3.65GHz)
IBM Power System
E880C (16ch/160co
POWER8 4.19GHz)
Cost Comparison
3 Year Oracle Maint
Oracle DB Lic Costs
People Costs (3yr)
SAN Port Costs
LAN Port Costs
Power Costs (3yr 24x7)
Rack Costs (3yr)
Hardware Maint (3yr 24x7)
System Purchase
Server
Oracle Oracle
Server X6-2
Oracle Sun
Server X5-8
IBM Power
System S824
IBM Power
System E850C
IBM Power
System E880C
Oracle Licenses Needed 550 648 216 168 155
Number of servers 30 9 9 4 1
% Discount on Oracle
Software = 60%

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TCO Case with Oracle RAC
% Discount on Oracle
Software = 60%
£0.00
£10,000,000.00
£20,000,000.00
£30,000,000.00
£40,000,000.00
£50,000,000.00
£60,000,000.00
£70,000,000.00
Oracle Oracle Server
X6-2 (2ch/44co Xeon
E5-2699 v4 2.2GHz)
Oracle Sun Server X5-
8 (8ch/144co Xeon
E7-8895 v3 2.60GHz)
IBM Power System
S824 (4ch/24co
POWER8 3.52GHz)
IBM Power System
E850C (8ch/48co
POWER8 3.65GHz)
IBM Power System
E880C (16ch/160co
POWER8 4.19GHz)
Cost Comparison
3 Year DG Maint
Oracle DG Lic Costs
3 Year Tuning Pack Maint
Oracle Tuning Pack Lic Costs
3 Year Diag Pack Maint
Oracle Diag Pack Lic Costs
3 Year Partitioning Maint
Oracle Partitioning Lic Costs
3 Year RAC Maint
Oracle RAC Lic Costs
3 Year Oracle Maint
Oracle DB Lic Costs
People Costs (3yr)
SAN Port Costs
LAN Port Costs
Power Costs (3yr 24x7)
Rack Costs (3yr)
Hardware Maint (3yr 24x7)
System Purchase

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TCO Case with WAS ND
£0.00
£2,000,000.00
£4,000,000.00
£6,000,000.00
£8,000,000.00
£10,000,000.00
£12,000,000.00
£14,000,000.00
£16,000,000.00
£18,000,000.00
Oracle Oracle Server
X6-2 (2ch/44co Xeon
E5-2699 v4 2.2GHz)
Oracle Sun Server
X5-8 (8ch/144co
Xeon E7-8895 v3
2.60GHz)
IBM Power System
S824 (4ch/24co
POWER8 3.52GHz)
IBM Power System
E850C (8ch/48co
POWER8 3.65GHz)
IBM Power System
E880C (16ch/160co
POWER8 4.19GHz)
Cost Comparison
WAS/ND 3 Year Support Costs
WAS/ND License Costs
People Costs (3yr)
SAN Port Costs
LAN Port Costs
Power Costs (3yr 24x7)
Rack Costs (3yr)
Hardware Maint (3yr 24x7)
System Purchase

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TCO Case combined
£0.00
£20,000,000.00
£40,000,000.00
£60,000,000.00
£80,000,000.00
£100,000,000.00
£120,000,000.00
£140,000,000.00
£160,000,000.00
£180,000,000.00
£200,000,000.00
Oracle Oracle Server
X6-2 (2ch/44co Xeon
E5-2699 v4 2.2GHz)
Oracle Sun Server
X5-8 (8ch/144co
Xeon E7-8895 v3
2.60GHz)
IBM Power System
S824 (4ch/24co
POWER8 3.52GHz)
IBM Power System
E850C (8ch/48co
POWER8 3.65GHz)
IBM Power System
E880C (16ch/160co
POWER8 4.19GHz)
Cost Comparison
WPS 3 Year Support Costs
WPS License Costs
WAS/ND 3 Year Support Costs
WAS/ND License Costs
3 Year DG Maint
Oracle DG Lic Costs
3 Year Tuning Pack Maint
Oracle Tuning Pack Lic Costs
3 Year Diag Pack Maint
Oracle Diag Pack Lic Costs
3 Year Partitioning Maint
Oracle Partitioning Lic Costs
3 Year RAC Maint
Oracle RAC Lic Costs
3 Year Oracle Maint
Oracle DB Lic Costs
People Costs (3yr)
SAN Port Costs
LAN Port Costs
Power Costs (3yr 24x7)
Rack Costs (3yr)
Hardware Maint (3yr 24x7)
System Purchase
Server
Oracle Oracle
Server X6-2
Oracle Sun
Server X5-8
IBM Power
System S824
IBM Power
System E850C
IBM Power
System E880C
Discount 30% 30% 30% 30% 30%
Cost Ratio 2.56 to 1 2.89 to 1 1.22 to 1 1 to 1 1.27 to 1

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POWER8 Overview
Optimized for
Data
Open Innovation
Platform
Superior Cloud
Economics

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OpenPOWER drives industry innovation
The OpenPOWER Foundation creates an open ecosystem,
using the POWER Architecture to share expertise, investment, and
server-class intellectual property to serve the evolving needs of customers.
Performance of leading POWER architecture
Broadens the capability and performance of the POWER
platform
Collaboration across multiple thought leaders
Collaborative development model drives collective
thought leadership, simultaneously across multiple
disciplines
Open Development
OpenPOWER enables greater innovation through
both open software and open hardware

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OpenPOWER Open Interfaces
OpenPOWER open interfaces enable an unbeatable innovation pace
CAPI
NVLink
40 GB/s
CAPI
16 GB/s
POWER8
Memory
Interface
Control
Server
Class
Memory
DMI
IBM and
Partner Devices
GPU

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Power Systems and NVIDIA GPU Roadmap
NVIDIA GPU NVIDIA GPU with NVLink
2015
Power Chip Power Chip
with NVLink*
2016*
*All statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only.
80 GB/s
Peak*
PCIe x16
32 GB/s

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Hadoop / Spark Commercial Technical
OpenPOWER Linux Cluster (LC) Systems (existing)
S812LC
1 socket, 2U, Linux
8 or 10 cores
Up to 1 TB memory
Up to 112 TB Storage
4 Available PCI Slots
KVM / Bare Metal
S822LC – GCA
2 socket, 2U, Linux
16 or 20 cores
Up to 1 TB memory
2 Disks
5 Available PCI slots
KVM / Bare Metal
S822LC – GTA
2 socket, 2U, Linux
16 or 20 cores
Up to 1 TB memory
2 Disks
2 NVIDIA K80 GPUs
3 Available PCI Slots
Bare Metal

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Dense Virtualisation Big Data Technical
OpenPOWER Linux Cluster (LC) Systems (new)
S821LC
Up to 2 socket, 1U, Linux
8, 10, 16 or 20 cores
Up to 512 GB memory
Up to 38 TB Storage
1 NVIDIA K80 GPU
4 Available PCI Slots
S822LC for Big Data
Up to 2 socket, 2U, Linux
8, 10, 16 or 20 cores
Up to 512 GB memory
Up to 96 TB Storage
2 NVIDIA K80 GPUs
5 Available PCI slots
S822LC for HPC
2 socket, 2U, Linux
NVLink
16 or 20 cores
Up to 1 TB memory
2 Disks
2 or 4 NVIDIA P100 GPUs
3 Available PCI Slots

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OpenPOWER Linux Cluster (LC) Systems
S821LC
MTM: 8001-12C
Code Name: Stratton
S822LC for Big Data
MTM: 8001-22C
Code Name: Briggs
S822LC for HPC
MTM: 8335-GTB
Code Name: Minsky
(was Garrison)
Power S812LC
MTM: 8348-21C
Code Name: Habanero
Power S822LC
MTM: 8335-GCA
Code Name: Firestone
Power S822LC
MTM: 8335-GTA
Code Name: Firestone

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Google, Rackspace, and GPUs: OH MY! See what you
missed at OpenPOWER Summit
http://openpowerfoundation.org/blogs/google-rackspace-gpus-openpower-summit/

39. 47 © IBM Corporation, 2016http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/08/24/big-blue-aims-sky-power9/

40. 48 © IBM Corporation, 2016http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/08/24/big-blue-aims-sky-power9/

41. © IBM Corporation, 2016
Questions?
David Spurway – IBM Power Systems Product Manager
Email: david.spurway@uk.ibm.com
Phone: 07717 892 896
Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube

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43. © IBM Corporation, 2016
Thank you!
David Spurway – IBM Power Systems Product Manager
Email: david.spurway@uk.ibm.com
Phone: 07717 892 896
Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube