Open innovation and collaboration between IBM and other technology companies is fueling advances in cloud computing, big data analytics, and software development. This includes contributions to open source projects like Linux as well as partnerships through organizations like the OpenPOWER Foundation. New systems based on IBM's Power architecture and optimized for Linux are helping customers improve the performance and efficiency of their analytics, database, and application workloads.

1. Open Innovation with Power Systems Revolutionizing how IT is created and consumed

2. Cloud and big data & analytics are fueled by open innovation
of new software is now being built for the cloud1
85%
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organizations have big data activities underway3
3 out of 4
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1 Source: 2013 IBM Annual Report
2 Source: “Linux Adoption Trends 2012: A Survey of Enterprise End Users,” Linux Foundation, January 2013
3 Source: IBM Institute for Business Value in collaboration with Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford, Analytics: The real-world use of big data, 2012.
of top public clouds run on Linux2
80%

3. Open development and open collaboration are driving the creation of new technologies and capabilities
Speed of Innovation
Radical innovation of products, markets and business models
Interoperability
Deep integration of new and existing products and IT resources
Choice
Increased flexibility through open community platforms and ecosystems

4. IBM has a history of industry-leading collaboration on open technology
15+ Years of Collaboration on Open Source
+
2007
1999
2007
2011
2011
2012
2013
2001
2013
2000
400+
software products
500
patents donated
600+
developers

5. 5
Power
x86
Applications & Services
Systems Management & Cloud Deployment
Systems Acceleration & HW/SW Optimization
Firmware, Operating System & Hypervisor
Processors
Semiconductor Technology
2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015
Performance/Price (SIR/$)
POWER SYSTEMS Integrated Innovations
Processor speed has reached a tipping point System stack innovations are powering the future

6. 6
USD1 billion Linux on
Power investment
50+ Porting Centers
with Linux expertise
Power development cloud
IBM Watson
OpenPOWER Foundation
SoftLayer Integration
Power Systems delivering on the promise of open innovation

7. 90x Power 750s
Single user system
2-3 sentences input
5+ days to retrain
Wikipedia, general corpus
Single Power 750
240% faster
1000s of users
20 pages of input
< Day to ingest and train
Medical corpus
SoftLayer cloud
5x faster on POWER81
Millions of users
Dialog chaining
Few hours
Broad industry corpus
Watson has evolved built on Linux and Power Systems
2011
2013
2014
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8. Target workloads for Linux on Power Systems
Workload Requirements
Virtualized Application Infrastructure
Java, PHP, web, networking
Highly threaded
Throughput oriented
Scale out capable
Economic efficiency
Analytics & Research
Business intelligence, structured & unstructured data, predictive analytics, HPC
Compute intensive
High memory bandwidth
Floating point
High I/O rates
Data Services
Database, enterprise content management
Handle peak workloads
Scalability
High quality of service
Resiliency and security
Business Applications
Mobile data access, ERP, cloud delivery, application development
High quality of service
Scalability
Flexible infrastructure
Large memory footprint

9. Scale out as your business grows with Linux on Power Systems
Speed & Agility
to capture value from new Linux workloads
Economic Advantages
that scale to meet business needs
Efficiency
to minimize infrastructure overhead
2X
Performance vs x86
58%
Lower costs of acquisition
66%
Fewer systems
Utilization outperforming industry standards
Or scale up on Power Enterprise Systems with Integrated Facilities for Linux

10. Scale out or scale up with Power Systems
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Power Scale-out Systems
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Power Enterprise Systems
Only Power Systems servers can scale out or scale up
Power Enterprise Systems
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Heritage of high utilization, performance and scalability
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Designed for the most mission-critical applications
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Delivering economic benefits for workload consolidation
Take advantage of these capabilities today
Power Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL)
IBM Power Enterprise System Pools
IBM Capacity on Demand

11. Clients leverage Linux on new POWER8-based Enterprise Systems
Open Innovation with Linux:
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Simplify operations of client-facing Linux applications
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Improve efficiency and quality of service through integration and co-location of critical back-office applications
Power IFL
Co-Location
Enterprise-class, secure private cloud for Linux consolidation of applications and databases
QoS
Services, applications, and databases that have high Quality of Service needs
Simplified Ops
Simplify operations and environment through shared services aligned to business processes & policy groups
Private Cloud, consolidation
Co-location of applications
with a secure affinity to data

12. Open Innovation: Moving Linux apps to Power has never been easier
Most x86/Linux applications written in C/C++ will require no source code change, only a recompile2
95%
100%
+
Hardware agnostic applications written in scripting or interpretive languages will run as is1
Little Endian Linux

13. New Power Scale-out systems built with open innovation to put data to work
Power S824L
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1 or 2 sockets
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10 or 12 cores/socket
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Up to 1 TB of Memory
Power S812L or Power S822L
Designed for Big Data
Superior Cloud Economics
Open Innovation Platform

14. IBM and NVIDIA deliver new acceleration capabilities for analytics, Big Data and Java
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Runs pattern extraction analytic workloads faster
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Provides new acceleration capability for analytics, big data, Java, and other technical computing workloads
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Delivers faster results and lower energy costs by accelerating processor intensive applications
Power System S824L
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Up to 24 POWER8 cores
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Up to 1 TB of memory
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Up to 2 NVIDIA K40 GPU Accelerators
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Ubuntu Linux running bare metal

15. Designed for Big Data: drive infrastructure optimization
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Reduce server footprint with in- memory consolidation
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Cost Efficient - 3x lower cost per user
IBM Data Engine for NoSQL Solution
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IBM Power S822L
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CAPI-Attached FPGA Accelerator
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IBM FlashSystem 840
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Ubuntu Linux
•
Redis Software
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Simplify operations - easy deploy and manage with 3x less storage infrastructure
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Adapt and scale to your changing analytics needs
IBM Data Engine for Analytics
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POWER8 Scale-out servers
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Red Hat Linux
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BigInsights (Hadoop) & Streams
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Platform Computing
•
Elastic Storage Server

16. Open collaboration with partners brings faster ROI to the popular LAMP solution stack
PHP (Zend)
High Speed Data Transfer (Mellanox)
Linux (Canonical)
Apache Web Server (Canonical)
SkySQL (MariaDB)
PHP (Zend)
Orchestration - Juju (Canonical)
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Database and I/O optimizations take advantage of POWER8, Mellanox, Zend, & MariaDB technology
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Faster application deployment with Canonical cloud orchestration software
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Pre-integrated in the lab to simplify client experience

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Smart, simplified attach for accelerators: GPUs, flash memory, networking & FPGAs
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Improves performance, reduces latency, and provides more workload for your dollar
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Leveraged by emerging applications built on Linux
CAPI and Linux enable innovation from the OpenPOWER Foundation
Smart Acceleration enabled by CAPI (Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface) Technology
CAPI is evolving with open technology

18. IBM Power 822L pricing comparison ($US) – vs. Ivy Bridge
Comparable TCA
Linux on Intel Ivy Bridge+ VMware
Vs.
Linux on POWER8 with PowerVM
Dell PowerEdge
R720
HP ProLiant DL380 G8
IBM Power S822L
$28,366
$29,829
$29,264
Server list price*
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3-year warranty, on-site
$12,605
$14,068
$14,895
Virtualization
- OTC + 3yr. 9x5 SWMA
$10,064
VMware vSphere Enterprise 5.1
$ 10,064
VMware vSphere Enterprise 5.1
$9,880
PowerVM for IBM PowerLinux
Linux OS list price
- RHEL, 2 sockets, unlimited guests, 9x5, 3 yr. sub./ supp.
$5,697
Red Hat subscription and Red Hat support
$5,697
Red Hat subscription and Red Hat support
$4,489
Red Hat subscription and IBM support
Total list price: (Total cost of acquisition)
$28,366
$29,829
$29,264
Server model
Dell R720
HP Proliant DL380p G8
IBM Power 822L
Processor / cores
Two 2.7 GHz , E5-2697, Ivy Bridge, 12-core processors
Two 3.4 GHz POWER8, 10-core
Configuration
64 GB memory, 2 x 300GB 15k HDD, 10 Gb two port
Same memory, HDD, NIC
* Based on US pricing for Power S822L announcing on April 28, 2014 matching configuration table above. Source: hp.com, dell.com, vmware.com

19. Linux on Power Systems is enabling new capabilities for clients
Data Explosion
Transaction Processing
Big Data Cluster
Support business growth
E-commerce
server
Local Industry ISV Solution
Achieved 2.5 times greater throughput without increasing software licensing costs, supporting customer growth during peak demand.
Uses 65% less space to host multiple SAP landscapes and deploys a new SAP environment 80% faster for mid-size clients
On the leading edge of applying Watson inspired Big Data technology to industries from pharma to financial services

20. The OpenPOWER Foundation creates a pipeline of continuous innovation and extends POWER8 capabilities
Analytics extracting patterns from large amounts of data run 8X faster leveraging NVIDIA GPU technology borne of the OpenPOWER Foundation
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Opening the architecture and innovating across the full hardware & software stack
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Driving an expansion of enterprise-class hardware and software
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Building a complete server ecosystem delivering maximum client flexibility

21. Members at all layers of the stack
Boards / Systems
I/O / Storage / Acceleration
Chip / SOC
System / Software / Services
Implementation / HPC / Research
www.openpowerfoundation.org

22. ISVs are critical to the expanding ecosystem on POWER
"IBM's POWER8 System, running Linux, is purpose-built for web-scale, delivering the technology to harness the power of automation, cloud, and big data.”
– Ken Cheney, Vice President of Business Development, Chef Software
“IBM is an important part of Canonical's Server and Cloud partner ecosystem. We believe IBM’s launch of Power8, with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu OpenStack and Juju will deliver the scale, reliability and performance customers are looking for.
– Mark Shuttleworth, Founder of Canonical, Ltd.
“Combined with IBM's POWER8 systems running Linux, Redis can run much faster and our clients will be able to process hundreds of thousands transactions per second at sub-millisecond latencies.” – Ofer Bengal , Co-Founder and CEO, Redis Labs
"Our Business-Ready Performance Management Solution utilizes many of the features of IBM POWER8 technology such as high data processing capacity, high data security, reliability and availability in which clients come to expect from their Business Analytics solutions.”
– Gary Shiller, Vice President, Sky Solutions

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IBM Power Systems
Designed for Big Data
Superior Cloud Economics
Open Innovation Platform
Call your IBM representative and visit a local briefing center
Contact your IBM Business Partner and tap into IBM’s ecosystem resources
Learn more at ibm.com/power
Open Innovation to put data to work

24. Open innovation to put data to work across the enterprise

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