ExecutiveEdge is IBM's two-day summit for IT leaders featuring technology announcements and industry insights. Key discussions centered on digital transformation, data's role in healthcare, and the necessity of strategic partnerships and open innovation for competitive advantage. The event concluded with a focus on future-proofing businesses through advanced technologies such as Power8 and flash memory.

1. ExecutiveEdge Edge2015
Las Vegas, Nevada
IBM Power Systems
Day Two
May 12, 2015

2. What Is ExecutiveEdge?
This is IBM’s exclusive two-day summit for IT executives and
leaders, featuring technology announcements, customer
success stories, and presentations by industry leaders and
IBM executives. The starring roles went to breakthrough
innovations from IBM Power Systems, IBM z Systems, IBM
System Storage, and IBM Middleware.
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3. Session:
General Session—Making It
Possible, Building Your Future
Day Two opened with Doug Brown, VP–Marketing IBM
Systems, discussing the rapid changes affecting the
digital landscape. He reminded attendees that IBM was
ready to help them get their enterprise ready for the
next age with “future made” technology.
How can you be sure that your
technology is ready?”
—Doug Brown
The answer, according to Kevin Keverian, SVP of
IBM Corporate Strategy, lies in
1. IBM’s strategic imperatives of data, cloud
and engagement.
2. connecting a new world of technology with
existing systems of record.
3. focusing on higher value for clients through
collaboration.
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“ Rich Jackson
Senior Technical Expert
Walmart
Kevin Keverian
Senior VP,
IBM Corporate Strategy

4. Session:
General Session—Making It
Possible, Building Your Future
(Continued)
A recurring theme on Day Two of ExecutiveEdge
was data’s role in healthcare. To close the
session, Gustavo Stolovitzky, Program Director,
IBM Translational Systems Biology and
Nanobiotechnology, explained that computing
power needed to advance to make the most of
available medical data.
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90%
of data created over
the last 10 years has
been abandoned.
Gustavo Stolovitzky
Program Director
IBM Translational Systems
Biology and Nanobiotechnology

5. Session:
ExecutiveEdge:
Competitive Advantage
Enabled by Cloud
The day’s second session started with Jamie
Thomas, GM Storage and Software Defined,
IBM Systems, who explained that digital
transformation means deploying a hybrid cloud
and that a successful hybrid cloud that’s scalable,
secure and integrated requires a world-class
infrastructure.
And SoftLayer on POWER8 is the very definition
of a world-class infrastructure.
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Stephen Gold,
Chief Marketing Officer,
Watson

6. Session:
ExecutiveEdge: Industry Transformation
and Open, Collaborative Innovation
IT doesn’t exist in silos, so this session focused on open technology
as well as collaboration between enterprises. IBM has forged strategic
partnerships with industry leaders to bring clients the best of the best.
IBM has strategic partnerships with Apple, Google,
Facebook, The Weather Channel, Twitter and more.
Beyond that, IBM is dedicated to an Open approach to enterprise
innovation with
100+
OpenPOWER-based innovations
underway.
500+
IBM programmers working as part
of open source communities.
100+
open source packages leveraged
by WebSphere Application Server.
5x
increased Department of Energy
computing capacity for Big Data
applications.
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7. Session:
ExecutiveEdge: Industry Transformation and
Open, Collaborative Innovation (Continued)
IBM is committed to collaboration to give our customers the best of the industry,
and that means SAP HANA on Power Systems for applications and analytics.
It’s an exciting time for IBM Power Systems, as we unveil a world without waiting that
runs on POWER8.
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Vipin Singh,
VP, SAP Practice NTT
Quentin Clark
CTO, SAP
Ken King,
General Manager
OpenPOWER Alliances
IBM Systems
Ken King,
General Manager
OpenPOWER Alliances
IBM Systems

8. Session:
ExecutiveEdge:
Future-Proof Your Business
ExecutiveEdge closed out the day with a session on preparing your
business for the future, which included talks on transforming the
economics of IT and services for enterprise-level hybrid IT.
Developments in Flash memory and the new POWER8 are two examples
of high-end technology that’s available at a low TCO to enterprises today.
Cal Braunstein, CEO, Robert Frances Group, said the speed of
technological change shouldn’t lead to decreasing investment in
key components. When planning to invest in infrastructure, he said,
spending a little more in the short run pays off with a more efficient
stack and technology that makes an enterprise more competitive.
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Cal Braunstein
CEO, Robert Frances Group

9. Session:
ExecutiveEdge:
Future-Proof Your Business
(Continued)
Bryan O’Neil, Director of Data Infrastructure, Allegiant Travel,
closed out the session with a remarkable story about refreshing
his technology using POWER8 with Flash storage and Linux.
Allegiant Travel saved more than $1 million, but the most striking
change was in performance.
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Bryan O’Neil
Director of Data Infrastructure,
Allegiant Travel

10. ExecutiveEdge is all about IBM Power Systems.
For more information,visit IBM Power Systems:
Welcome to the waitless world.
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