The document outlines how IBM Power8 technology helps organizations lower costs and improve performance through various applications like big data processing, cloud economics, and supply chain management. Key benefits include reduced hardware costs, improved scalability, and enhanced performance with integrated NVIDIA GPU technology. It emphasizes the platform's ability to support real-time analytics and higher user throughput in cloud-based environments.

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Server Farm
IBM Business Partners use POWER8
to Lower Client Costs

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How do organizations lower cost
with Linux on IBM POWER8?
• Big Data: Reduce cost with 60% fewer
servers and 2.5X the performance for
Hadoop, all with linear scalability up to
192 cores
• Cloud Economics: POWER8 delivers
lower costs with 58% lower HW TCA
and 66% less systems, lowering SW
fees, floor space & management costs
• Open Innovation: Ease development
with open software and analyze data 8X
faster with NVIDIA GPU technology
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big data
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cloud economics
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3. Analyze more data faster
and more cost effectively than ever before
Greater cost efficiency with POWER8 and NVIDIA GPUs
Optimize supply chain with dynamic memory resource allocation
Improve RAM performance at a much lower cost with CAPI-Flash
IBM Business Partners use POWER8 technologies
to lower clients costs over competitive platforms
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Speed of Innovation Interoperability Choice

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The Need
• More insightful analysis of incoming real
time data in a smaller footprint with
improved energy efficiency
• Significantly improved performance for
CPU- and I/O-intensive queries
• A future-ready platform
The Solution
• GIS Federal GPUdb
• Linux on IBM POWER8
• NVIDIA GPUs
The Benefits
• Provide a future-ready platform with world-
class hardware and services from IBM
• Improve performance with reduced cost
using less servers and power consumption
• Higher concurrency per core ratio for CPU
intensive workloads
• Increase memory bandwidth for high-
performance databases
“Now that POWER is on board as well
we’re going to be able to have the best
hardware platform with a gold standard in
high-performance computing.”
Nima Negahban, Chief Technical Officer,
GIS Federal
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gisfederal.com/
http://youtu.be/h1_YNGsiOD0

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The Need
• Cloud-based e-commerce with rapid
response to market changes
• Improved client experience with better
performance and higher availability
• Multi-tenancy and automation allowing
security and resource guarantees by
cloud service providers
The Solution
• LaGrange CloudMaestro
• IBM POWER8
The Benefits
• Reduce cost per transaction by almost half
• Increase memory bandwidth and higher
core count
• Deliver 1.5X the user throughput
“The POWER8 platform was capable of
delivering a significant improvement in
customer experience…we found that
this was an excellent solution for the e-
commerce merchants that we work with”
Jay Smith, Founder & CEO,
Lagrange Systems
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www.lagrangesystems.com
http://youtu.be/m1oc-GdNXiU

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The Need
• Optimized supply chains both from a
topline revenue perspective as well as
an efficiency perspective
• Scale out capability with a centrally
managed environment
The Solution
• Manhattan Supply Chain Management &
Optimization software
• Linux on IBM POWER8 and Enterprise
Pools
The Benefits
• Create processing efficiency and reduce
hardware costs
• Provide flexibility to clients through one
cohesively managed environment
• Improve performance with dynamic
allocation of memory across various
applications
“When [clients] come to us and say - we’re
going to use your software and we’re going
to use it on IBM…we’re very confident in
recommending to them what they need from
a performance and sizing perspective.”
Rob Thomas, SVP, Global R&D,
Manhattan Associates
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www.manh.com/
http://youtu.be/-8i2n_Mt3Yw

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The Need
• A database benchmarked as the worlds
fastest
• Real-time analytics, fast high-volume
transactions & in-app social functionality
• Ability to handled growing social, mobile
and web presence transactions
The Solution
• Redis Labs Enterprise Cluster (RLEC)
• Linux on IBM POWER8
• IBM CAPI-Flash
The Benefits
• With a IBM POWER8 server with CAPI-
Flash, IBM 840 Flash System and RLEC:
• Reduce downtime with dramatically
improved operational simplicity while
maintaining sub-millisecond latency
• Process over 200K ops/sec while storing
90% of multi-terabyte dataset on Flash
• Reduce deployment costs by over 70%
“POWER8 and Redis is a match made
in heaven because it enables really
outstanding performance.”
Ofer Bengal, Founder & CEO,
Redis Labs
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http://youtu.be/cCmFc_0xsvA
redislabs.com

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The Need
• Live big data analysis in fast-changing
Hadoop environments at unprecedented
speed
• Ability make more informed decisions in
the moment
The Solution
• ScaleOut hServer
®
• Hadoop Linux on IBM POWER8
The Benefits
• Simultaneous data updates and analysis at
in-memory speeds
• Dramatic workload acceleration with highly
optimized Java execution environment on
POWER8
• 3.5x faster performance and more than 3x
speed up in comparison to competitive
technologies
“We were very pleased to find that the
POWER8 platform supports the Linux
operating system. This made our job of
porting our software to the POWER8
platform fast and easy.”
Dr. William Bain, CEO and Founder,
ScaleOut Software
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http://youtu.be/7q5ERajssvs
www.scaleoutsoftware.com

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The Need
• Ability to keep your CRM system
available, secure, and cost-effective
• Break down silos and improve service
levels with embedded tools
• Spend less time worrying about
infrastructure and more time making
your clients happy
The Solution
• SugarCRM
• Linux on IBM POWER8
The Benefits
• Improved scalability, availability, cost, risk,
complexity, and management to host CRM
• 2X the performance of comparable
technology allowing scalability for global
deployment of CRM solutions
• Ability to grow deployments without
additional infrastructure costs
“With SugarCRM and POWER8 our
customers get all the performance
and scalability that they need but at
a price point that makes sense for
them.”
Clint Oram, Co-Founder & CTO,
SugarCRM
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http://youtu.be/tYTIYOQFwIQ
www.sugarcrm.com/

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The Need
• Unlock the performance and efficiency
potential of parallel programming for
multicore systems
• Create applications that can transport
across multicore architectures with easy,
auto-parallelizing, transparent solutions
The Solution
• TMT SequenceL
• Linux on IBM POWER8
The Benefits
• Built on open industry standards to provide
easy, low risk path to modernize programs
• Explore GPU acceleration benefits without
learning low-level languages
• Benefit from high core/thread count, large
cache sizes, balanced memory and I/O
• Replace multiple racks with a single server
and apply supercomputing to the enterprise
“POWER8 with Linux could really be a
game-changer…we think this [partnership]
is going to be very compelling for our
customers and it’s going to let us tap into
new vertical markets where we really
haven’t gone to before.”
Doug Norton, Chief Marketing Officer,
Texas Multicore Technologies
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http://youtu.be/lGo9-gpBmQs
www.texasmulticoretechnolo
gies.com/

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