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- Capgemini deployed an IBM PureFlex system to support its SAP cloud hosting service 33% faster while improving performance 10-15% and reducing operations costs up to 30%.
- Redcentric transformed its cloud business model using IBM Flex System to rapidly provision resources and expand its service portfolio.
- Agilisys implemented an IBM PureFlex system for new financial services applications to quickly bring them to market and avoid complex integration work.
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Organizations should seize the opportunity to achieve the transformational efficiencies the hybrid cloud can deliver. When planning your journey, consider buying rather than building your own solution to speed time to value, minimize expenditures, and reduce risk.
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The National Registration Department of
Malaysia (Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara
Malaysia, or JPN) is the government agency
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and requests for data extraction from governmental
entities, JPN custom-built an application
referred to as the Statistics and Data Extraction
Request Management System (SAL). Although
the application was designed to automatically
manage, calculate and distribute responses to
data requests, the underlying hardware platform
was woefully inadequate for the task and
frequently bogged down.
Today Cloud computing is used in a wide range of domains. By using cloud computing a user
can utilize services and pool of resources through internet. The cloud computing platform
guarantees subscribers that it will live up to the service level agreement (SLA) in providing
resources as service and as per needs. However, it is essential that the provider be able to
effectively manage the resources. One of the important roles of the cloud computing platform is
to balance the load amongst different servers in order to avoid overloading in any host and
improve resource utilization.
It is defined as a distributed system containing a collection of computing and communication
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Deloitte Software As A Service Deloitte SeminarTheo Slaats
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can utilize services and pool of resources through internet. The cloud computing platform
guarantees subscribers that it will live up to the service level agreement (SLA) in providing
resources as service and as per needs. However, it is essential that the provider be able to
effectively manage the resources. One of the important roles of the cloud computing platform is
to balance the load amongst different servers in order to avoid overloading in any host and
improve resource utilization.
It is defined as a distributed system containing a collection of computing and communication
resources located in distributed data enters which are shared by several end users. It has widely
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Learn about IBM PureFlex System: The Future of Data center Management.The ‘Expert Integrated System’ delivers a combination of hardware, software and built-in expertise that makes implementing and applying the power of computing simpler, easier, faster and more effective than ever before.For more information, visit http://ibm.co/J7Zb1v.
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Dr. Darcel Ford
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Cloud Technology and Virtualization
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Cloud computing is ideal for small companies, as it’s cost-effective, saves time and energy, and it allows for a high level of customization. According to Forbes, a 2009 study found that cloud computing could save up to 67% of the lifecycle cost for server deployment on a large scale. Another study found that using cloud solutions generally results in higher investment returns (when compared to an on-site system). There are further cost saving benefits, such as less need for expensive hardware and software, and no need for physical networks or IT maintenance. Also, cloud systems are usually ‘pay-as-you-go’, so you only pay for what you use. There are no upfront investments, and IT requirements can be easily budgeted for. Also, various cloud services can either be added or scaled back, depending on where your business is, and how much growth is taking place. The cloud is also highly customizable: you can select what platform you want, which payroll software to use, and what email marketing tools you require – all from different vendors, and all individually configurable (K2 SEO 2013).
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The emergence of social, mobile, cloud, big data and analytics are fundamentally changing how we live, work and interact.
Mobile devices are ubiquitous. Changing consumer behaviors, supplanting PCs, generating massive amounts of data and putting new demands on the enterprise to not only support these devices but to adjust the way they do business.
Social technologies are changing the way we interact, communicate and share information – equally generating vast amounts of data and impacting business as they try to unlock the full potential social has to offer.
Cloud technologies bring new scale and efficiency to service delivery and enable more agile ways of doing business and drive business model innovation. For companies, It also brings information and applications to people at the right time and place.
All of these trends are fueling an explosion of data. Not only do enterprises need to store, manage and secure this data, they also need to derive meaningful insight from these vast amounts of data. Data is the basis of significant opportunity and a source of competitive advantage for all organizations. Data is a new economic asset, the next natural resource.
These trends are spawning new workloads, business processes and technology deployments that are putting unprecedented demands on our IT environments.
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Presentation gives more insight about what is Converged Infrastructure , types of Converged Infrastructure and its benefits. Also it provides details about various Converged Infrastructure vendors in market and their shares.
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Discover how cloud services empower businesses with scalable and secure infrastructure solutions, ensuring seamless growth and data protection.
Learn more: https://www.grapestechsolutions.com/blog/building-scalable-and-secure-cloud-infrastructure/
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1. Faster system deployment: Systems were deployed 33% faster.
Faster service delivery: Customer services were activated in
minutes or hours rather than weeks.
Enhanced system performance: System availability was close to
100%.
Lower cost of operations: Cost of operations was lowered by 37%.
Benefits: Companies in the study realized over $640,000 in benefits
related to improved infrastructure deployment, performance, and
operational economics.
Business Value Highlights
W H I T E P AP E R
I B M P u r e F l e x S y s t e m R e a d y f o r C l o u d
Sponsored by: IBM
Randy Perry Mary Johnston Turner
July 2013
E X E C U T I V E S U M M AR Y
Cloud computing represents an opportunity for enterprise and service provider
datacenters to become more agile and flexible by using self-service infrastructure
provisioning; automated, dynamic resource pooling and scaling; and consumption-
based metering to improve accelerate cloud infrastructure configuration, provisioning,
and life-cycle management. IDC
estimates that combined enterprise
and service provider spending on IT
infrastructure hardware and software
for cloud datacenters will total more
than $42 billion worldwide by 2017.
Integrated systems, such as the IBM
PureFlex System, pre-integrate and
optimize software stacks with
compute, storage, network, and
management software resources to
enable optimal performance of
mission-critical applications and
workloads. Many IT organizations are
using integrated systems as core platforms to enable private clouds and public cloud
service delivery environments.
IDC interviews with several IBM customers and partners show that organizations
using IBM PureFlex System, as well as Flex System infrastructure building blocks, as
the infrastructure platform for cloud realized over $640,000 in benefits related to
improved infrastructure deployment, performance, and operational economics.
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Faster system deployment: Pre-integrated systems optimized for either
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purchasing, and deployment by 33%.
Faster service delivery: Service providers that had already deployed integrated
systems into their service delivery environments were able to activate new
customer services in minutes or hours rather than having to wait six weeks or
more to purchase, integrate, and deploy new service-enabling infrastructure.
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