Learn about how Agence France-Presse rises to global news media demands by using IBM storage solutions for optimal flexibility, performance and cost-effectiveness. To know more, visit http://ibm.co/TaLb6Q.
The document discusses the Storwize Unified storage system from IBM. It provides file and block storage capabilities with tightly integrated management in a single system. Key features include support for file sharing protocols, file-level snapshots for backup and recovery, and IBM Active Cloud Engine technology for automated storage efficiency of files using user-defined policies. The system is based on the highly successful Storwize V7000 block storage platform and provides a unified interface for managing both file and block data.
The document provides information about the IBM Storwize V5000 storage system. It highlights key benefits such as simplified management, flexible customization options, and boosted performance through optional Easy Tier technology. The Storwize V5000 offers flexible scaling from small to large configurations and standard software features to help manage storage environments.
The document discusses IBM's Storwize V7000 and Storwize V7000 Unified hybrid storage systems. It provides an overview of the systems' key features such as improved data value through increased storage efficiency and performance, enhanced data security and protection, and simplified management. The Storwize V7000 addresses business needs around data growth, application demands, and reducing storage costs and complexity.
The document discusses IBM's announcement of its new N6200 series storage systems. Key points include:
- The N6200 series scales to nearly 1.2PB and has extra PCIe slots for connectivity to adapt to growing storage workloads.
- It offers simplified software, improved performance, flexibility and scalability at a lower total cost of ownership than previous IBM storage systems.
- The N6200 provides data protection, storage efficiency, and high availability features as well as flexible licensing options.
An IBM Storage Solution for Small and Mid-size Businesses -- The IBM Storwize...Tony Pearson
The document describes the IBM Storwize V3700 storage solution for small and mid-size businesses. It has award-winning simplicity and can be deployed quickly and flexibly. It starts small and scales up, and is optimized for flash. The Storwize V3700 offers everything needed from storage in a compact 2U form factor, with redundant components, 10GbE iSCSI and FCoE connectivity, solid state drives, and hybrid storage pools. It provides high performance similar to midrange systems through its embedded analytics and optimized hardware and software features inherited from IBM's enterprise-class storage solutions.
Gain quick, easy, and flexible handling of data with a comprehensive family of SAP HANA storage solutions. IBM Storage delivers the flexibility and performance you need for your SAP applications. Discover fast, proven TDI-certified IBM Storage systems for your SAP deployment.
The worlds of Big Data and Enterprise IT are converging, creating new challenges and opportunities for businesses across all industry segments. Join us for this recorded webcast and hear from EMC Isilon’s John Mallory, CTO Americas West, speak about how EMC Isilon scale-out storage solutions can help you manage data more effectively and accelerate your business transformation.
Missed us at this FIS event in April? Learn how IBM Storage can help supercharge FIS applications and deliver the scale, management and economics your financial services end users and workloads demand.
The document discusses the Storwize Unified storage system from IBM. It provides file and block storage capabilities with tightly integrated management in a single system. Key features include support for file sharing protocols, file-level snapshots for backup and recovery, and IBM Active Cloud Engine technology for automated storage efficiency of files using user-defined policies. The system is based on the highly successful Storwize V7000 block storage platform and provides a unified interface for managing both file and block data.
The document provides information about the IBM Storwize V5000 storage system. It highlights key benefits such as simplified management, flexible customization options, and boosted performance through optional Easy Tier technology. The Storwize V5000 offers flexible scaling from small to large configurations and standard software features to help manage storage environments.
The document discusses IBM's Storwize V7000 and Storwize V7000 Unified hybrid storage systems. It provides an overview of the systems' key features such as improved data value through increased storage efficiency and performance, enhanced data security and protection, and simplified management. The Storwize V7000 addresses business needs around data growth, application demands, and reducing storage costs and complexity.
The document discusses IBM's announcement of its new N6200 series storage systems. Key points include:
- The N6200 series scales to nearly 1.2PB and has extra PCIe slots for connectivity to adapt to growing storage workloads.
- It offers simplified software, improved performance, flexibility and scalability at a lower total cost of ownership than previous IBM storage systems.
- The N6200 provides data protection, storage efficiency, and high availability features as well as flexible licensing options.
An IBM Storage Solution for Small and Mid-size Businesses -- The IBM Storwize...Tony Pearson
The document describes the IBM Storwize V3700 storage solution for small and mid-size businesses. It has award-winning simplicity and can be deployed quickly and flexibly. It starts small and scales up, and is optimized for flash. The Storwize V3700 offers everything needed from storage in a compact 2U form factor, with redundant components, 10GbE iSCSI and FCoE connectivity, solid state drives, and hybrid storage pools. It provides high performance similar to midrange systems through its embedded analytics and optimized hardware and software features inherited from IBM's enterprise-class storage solutions.
Gain quick, easy, and flexible handling of data with a comprehensive family of SAP HANA storage solutions. IBM Storage delivers the flexibility and performance you need for your SAP applications. Discover fast, proven TDI-certified IBM Storage systems for your SAP deployment.
The worlds of Big Data and Enterprise IT are converging, creating new challenges and opportunities for businesses across all industry segments. Join us for this recorded webcast and hear from EMC Isilon’s John Mallory, CTO Americas West, speak about how EMC Isilon scale-out storage solutions can help you manage data more effectively and accelerate your business transformation.
Missed us at this FIS event in April? Learn how IBM Storage can help supercharge FIS applications and deliver the scale, management and economics your financial services end users and workloads demand.
Presentazione IBM System Storage - Evento Torino 19 novembre 2013PRAGMA PROGETTI
The document discusses recent announcements and enhancements from IBM regarding their software defined storage solutions. Key points include:
- IBM introduced IP replication capabilities for their Storwize family that utilizes Bridgeworks SANSlide technology to improve network utilization up to 3x.
- Real-time compression algorithms were enhanced to provide up to 3x higher throughput for VMware migrations and 35% reduced CPU usage.
- A mobile dashboard was released for monitoring IBM Storwize systems from mobile devices.
- Other enhancements included support for 800GB SSDs, SAS data migration capabilities, and an "enhanced stretched cluster" feature for IBM SVC.
IBM System Storage® : la famiglia si allarga…ultimi annunciS.info Srl
The document discusses recent announcements from IBM about enhancements to its Storwize family of software-defined storage solutions. Key updates include the addition of IP replication with integrated network optimization technology to improve replication performance over long distances, improvements to real-time compression capabilities, a mobile application for storage monitoring, and enhanced functionality for stretched clusters. These updates further advance IBM's vision of delivering a fully software-defined storage platform.
Data Footprint Reduction: Understanding IBM Storage OptionsTony Pearson
This document provides an overview of a presentation given by Tony Pearson and Sanjay S Bhikot on data footprint reduction technologies available from IBM, including thin provisioning, space-efficient copying, data deduplication, and compression. The presentation covers the history and functionality of each technology, as well as how they are implemented in various IBM storage products to help reduce storage costs.
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This document summarizes an EMC presentation on storage essentials. The presentation covered EMC's integration with VMware including features like VAAI, backup and replication solutions using Avamar, and the use of tiered storage technologies like FAST to improve performance. It also discussed reference architectures for VDI deployments using View and how VPLEX can enable live migration of VMs across sites for high availability.
The document discusses EMC Isilon scale-out NAS storage. Key points include: Isilon uses a scale-out architecture with a single file system that scales from 18TB to 20PB across nodes; it features automated tiering between performance and capacity tiers, high performance and utilization, and easy management through a single interface; the operating system OneFS provides a unified file system across nodes without partitioning.
Server virtualization from VMware provides a powerful environment for consolidating a large number of physical servers, thereby delivering cost savings, asset optimization and enhanced flexibility to the data center. The IBM Storwize V7000 Unified storage system, combined with powerful management software from IBM Tivoli...
This document provides an overview of EMC Isilon scale-out NAS storage solutions. It begins with an agenda and discusses Isilon's market leadership in scale-out NAS. Key trends in file and unstructured data growth are presented. The document then covers Isilon hardware and software features including data protection, management, and performance. Example use cases and platforms are summarized before addressing advantages such as scalability, efficiency, protection, and flexibility.
- AFP traces its history back to 1835 with the creation of Agence Havas, the world's first international news agency.
- Today AFP delivers fast, accurate, in-depth news from every corner of the world, 24 hours a day to a broad range of clients through text, video, photographs and graphics.
- With over 2,900 staff including more than 1,400 journalists located in 165 countries, AFP provides comprehensive global coverage of breaking news stories as well as in-depth reporting, analysis and multimedia content.
This document provides information about prominent national and global news agencies. It discusses news agencies like AFP, AP, Reuters, UPI, and APP. AFP, founded in 1835, is the oldest news agency. AP was created in 1846 between five New York newspapers. Reuters was founded in 1851 in London. UPI was formed in 1907 through a merger. APP was established in Pakistan in 1947. The document outlines the history and operations of these major news agencies.
The document discusses news agencies in India, including their roles and histories of major agencies. It provides details of the Press Trust of India (PTI), the largest news agency, and United News of India (UNI). PTI was established in 1949 and provides domestic and foreign news to newspapers. It has expanded services over the decades. UNI was formed in 1961 by major newspapers and took over operations of another agency. It has specialized services and stringers across India and abroad.
- The document provides data on polio cases globally and within India in 2010. It includes statistics on the number of wild poliovirus and vaccine-derived poliovirus cases by country and Indian state. Charts show the weekly and yearly trends of wild poliovirus types 1 and 3 within India. Maps display the geographic location of acute flaccid paralysis surveillance and polio cases within Maharashtra state.
Even if you already know what a SWOT analysis is and what it’s used for, it can be tough to translate that information into something you can action.
It can also be hard to examine your own business with a critical eye if you’re not entirely sure what you should be examining.
Reading an example SWOT analysis for a business that is either in your industry or based on a comparable business model can help get you started.
All of our SWOT analysis examples are based on real businesses that we’ve featured in our gallery of free sample business plans on bplans.com
The following 6 examples are
broken into three parts:
1. A quick introduction to the company.
2. The company’s SWOT analysis.
3. Some potential growth strategies for the company based on what’s revealed by the SWOT analysis.
Ip only ab packing three times as many v ms into the same infrastructure tha...Diego Alberto Tamayo
IP-Only AB wanted to maximize the use of its existing infrastructure by running more virtual machines (VMs) on each physical server. It deployed an IBM FlashSystem 840 and Storwize storage solution, which allowed it to run three times as many VMs on the same servers. This improved the company's profitability. The flash storage also reduced latency by 10 times, enabling one client to accelerate a report generation process by over 99%.
The IBM Storwize V5000 is a hybrid storage solution that provides improved performance, virtualization capabilities, and flexibility. It includes functions like compression and tiering to boost efficiency and performance. The Storwize V5000 comes in three models and can scale up to 504 drives to store large amounts of data, while protecting data through features such as encryption, replication, and migration.
Learn about SAP with IBM Tivoli FlashCopy Manager
for VMware and IBM XIV and IBM Storwize V7000 storage systems to create an effective VMware backup / restore solution for the SAP landscape.
The company Facq needed to upgrade its aging IT infrastructure to support business expansion plans. It worked with IBM and partner EASI to implement a solution using an IBM Power 720 server and IBM Storwize V7000 storage. This improved system speed and performance, provided scalability, and lowered maintenance costs to support Facq's continued growth.
ViPR Services Storage Engine Architecture
This white paper explains in detail the ViPR Services architecture, which is a geo-scale cloud storage platform that delivers cloud-scale storage services, global access, and operational efficiency at scale.
This white paper provides a detailed overview of the EMC ViPR Services architecture, a geo-scale cloud storage platform that delivers cloud-scale storage services, global access, and operational efficiency at scale.
1) IBM PureSystems provides pre-integrated and pre-configured systems to help clients close the gap between business innovation and IT capabilities.
2) It offers a continuum of value from flexible building blocks to fully integrated systems. This provides clients with simplicity, rapid deployment, agility and elasticity.
3) The document discusses how IBM PureSystems can help clients optimize workloads across Mainframe and PureSystems environments through fast provisioning, standardization, reduced maintenance costs and clear deployment strategies.
Presentazione IBM System Storage - evento Venaria 14 ottobrePRAGMA PROGETTI
The document discusses IBM's perspective on data growth and management. It notes that while data is growing exponentially, not all data has equal value or longevity. IBM argues that storage strategies need to account for this. The document then outlines IBM's storage solutions, including software-defined storage, flash storage, and virtualization technologies. These solutions aim to enable new workloads, optimize traditional workloads, maximize performance, and improve data economics for businesses dealing with growing data volumes.
Presentazione IBM System Storage - Evento Torino 19 novembre 2013PRAGMA PROGETTI
The document discusses recent announcements and enhancements from IBM regarding their software defined storage solutions. Key points include:
- IBM introduced IP replication capabilities for their Storwize family that utilizes Bridgeworks SANSlide technology to improve network utilization up to 3x.
- Real-time compression algorithms were enhanced to provide up to 3x higher throughput for VMware migrations and 35% reduced CPU usage.
- A mobile dashboard was released for monitoring IBM Storwize systems from mobile devices.
- Other enhancements included support for 800GB SSDs, SAS data migration capabilities, and an "enhanced stretched cluster" feature for IBM SVC.
IBM System Storage® : la famiglia si allarga…ultimi annunciS.info Srl
The document discusses recent announcements from IBM about enhancements to its Storwize family of software-defined storage solutions. Key updates include the addition of IP replication with integrated network optimization technology to improve replication performance over long distances, improvements to real-time compression capabilities, a mobile application for storage monitoring, and enhanced functionality for stretched clusters. These updates further advance IBM's vision of delivering a fully software-defined storage platform.
Data Footprint Reduction: Understanding IBM Storage OptionsTony Pearson
This document provides an overview of a presentation given by Tony Pearson and Sanjay S Bhikot on data footprint reduction technologies available from IBM, including thin provisioning, space-efficient copying, data deduplication, and compression. The presentation covers the history and functionality of each technology, as well as how they are implemented in various IBM storage products to help reduce storage costs.
Presentation integration vmware with emc storagesolarisyourep
This document summarizes an EMC presentation on storage essentials. The presentation covered EMC's integration with VMware including features like VAAI, backup and replication solutions using Avamar, and the use of tiered storage technologies like FAST to improve performance. It also discussed reference architectures for VDI deployments using View and how VPLEX can enable live migration of VMs across sites for high availability.
The document discusses EMC Isilon scale-out NAS storage. Key points include: Isilon uses a scale-out architecture with a single file system that scales from 18TB to 20PB across nodes; it features automated tiering between performance and capacity tiers, high performance and utilization, and easy management through a single interface; the operating system OneFS provides a unified file system across nodes without partitioning.
Server virtualization from VMware provides a powerful environment for consolidating a large number of physical servers, thereby delivering cost savings, asset optimization and enhanced flexibility to the data center. The IBM Storwize V7000 Unified storage system, combined with powerful management software from IBM Tivoli...
This document provides an overview of EMC Isilon scale-out NAS storage solutions. It begins with an agenda and discusses Isilon's market leadership in scale-out NAS. Key trends in file and unstructured data growth are presented. The document then covers Isilon hardware and software features including data protection, management, and performance. Example use cases and platforms are summarized before addressing advantages such as scalability, efficiency, protection, and flexibility.
- AFP traces its history back to 1835 with the creation of Agence Havas, the world's first international news agency.
- Today AFP delivers fast, accurate, in-depth news from every corner of the world, 24 hours a day to a broad range of clients through text, video, photographs and graphics.
- With over 2,900 staff including more than 1,400 journalists located in 165 countries, AFP provides comprehensive global coverage of breaking news stories as well as in-depth reporting, analysis and multimedia content.
This document provides information about prominent national and global news agencies. It discusses news agencies like AFP, AP, Reuters, UPI, and APP. AFP, founded in 1835, is the oldest news agency. AP was created in 1846 between five New York newspapers. Reuters was founded in 1851 in London. UPI was formed in 1907 through a merger. APP was established in Pakistan in 1947. The document outlines the history and operations of these major news agencies.
The document discusses news agencies in India, including their roles and histories of major agencies. It provides details of the Press Trust of India (PTI), the largest news agency, and United News of India (UNI). PTI was established in 1949 and provides domestic and foreign news to newspapers. It has expanded services over the decades. UNI was formed in 1961 by major newspapers and took over operations of another agency. It has specialized services and stringers across India and abroad.
- The document provides data on polio cases globally and within India in 2010. It includes statistics on the number of wild poliovirus and vaccine-derived poliovirus cases by country and Indian state. Charts show the weekly and yearly trends of wild poliovirus types 1 and 3 within India. Maps display the geographic location of acute flaccid paralysis surveillance and polio cases within Maharashtra state.
Even if you already know what a SWOT analysis is and what it’s used for, it can be tough to translate that information into something you can action.
It can also be hard to examine your own business with a critical eye if you’re not entirely sure what you should be examining.
Reading an example SWOT analysis for a business that is either in your industry or based on a comparable business model can help get you started.
All of our SWOT analysis examples are based on real businesses that we’ve featured in our gallery of free sample business plans on bplans.com
The following 6 examples are
broken into three parts:
1. A quick introduction to the company.
2. The company’s SWOT analysis.
3. Some potential growth strategies for the company based on what’s revealed by the SWOT analysis.
Ip only ab packing three times as many v ms into the same infrastructure tha...Diego Alberto Tamayo
IP-Only AB wanted to maximize the use of its existing infrastructure by running more virtual machines (VMs) on each physical server. It deployed an IBM FlashSystem 840 and Storwize storage solution, which allowed it to run three times as many VMs on the same servers. This improved the company's profitability. The flash storage also reduced latency by 10 times, enabling one client to accelerate a report generation process by over 99%.
The IBM Storwize V5000 is a hybrid storage solution that provides improved performance, virtualization capabilities, and flexibility. It includes functions like compression and tiering to boost efficiency and performance. The Storwize V5000 comes in three models and can scale up to 504 drives to store large amounts of data, while protecting data through features such as encryption, replication, and migration.
Learn about SAP with IBM Tivoli FlashCopy Manager
for VMware and IBM XIV and IBM Storwize V7000 storage systems to create an effective VMware backup / restore solution for the SAP landscape.
The company Facq needed to upgrade its aging IT infrastructure to support business expansion plans. It worked with IBM and partner EASI to implement a solution using an IBM Power 720 server and IBM Storwize V7000 storage. This improved system speed and performance, provided scalability, and lowered maintenance costs to support Facq's continued growth.
ViPR Services Storage Engine Architecture
This white paper explains in detail the ViPR Services architecture, which is a geo-scale cloud storage platform that delivers cloud-scale storage services, global access, and operational efficiency at scale.
This white paper provides a detailed overview of the EMC ViPR Services architecture, a geo-scale cloud storage platform that delivers cloud-scale storage services, global access, and operational efficiency at scale.
1) IBM PureSystems provides pre-integrated and pre-configured systems to help clients close the gap between business innovation and IT capabilities.
2) It offers a continuum of value from flexible building blocks to fully integrated systems. This provides clients with simplicity, rapid deployment, agility and elasticity.
3) The document discusses how IBM PureSystems can help clients optimize workloads across Mainframe and PureSystems environments through fast provisioning, standardization, reduced maintenance costs and clear deployment strategies.
Presentazione IBM System Storage - evento Venaria 14 ottobrePRAGMA PROGETTI
The document discusses IBM's perspective on data growth and management. It notes that while data is growing exponentially, not all data has equal value or longevity. IBM argues that storage strategies need to account for this. The document then outlines IBM's storage solutions, including software-defined storage, flash storage, and virtualization technologies. These solutions aim to enable new workloads, optimize traditional workloads, maximize performance, and improve data economics for businesses dealing with growing data volumes.
IBM recently acquired Cleversafe, a Chicago-based company that provides web-scale storage solutions scaling to exabyte capacities. Cleversafe's dispersed storage network software manages the storage and retrieval of encrypted and erasure coded data slices across industry standard hardware. The acquisition will allow IBM to integrate Cleversafe's offerings into its hybrid cloud solutions, providing businesses flexible and scalable storage deployment options on-premise, in dedicated private clouds, and in IBM's public cloud.
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Webb, a supply chain management company based in Brazil, needed to improve its onsite infrastructure to support growing software testing demands and back-office applications. It deployed IBM BladeCenter servers with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and KVM virtualization technology. This reduced licensing costs by 70%, reduced virtual machine configuration time from two days to 15 minutes, and reduced the server footprint by over 80%.
Learn why Storwize V7000 Unified Disk Systems is the most powerful and easy-to-use innovative disk systems in the storage marketplaceFor more information visit, http://ibm.co/LIg7gk.
This paper describes the benchmark testing that was done with IBM Storwize V7000 storage system and Fidelity Information services in January 2012. To know more about the IBM Storwize V7000, visit http://ibm.co/TaLb6Q.
The document provides an overview of IBM z Systems and how it enables digital transformation through hybrid cloud infrastructure, rapid application creation, real-time insight, and combating cyber threats. It discusses how the new IBM z13s delivers more performance, scale, and capabilities to fuel innovation with a secure hybrid cloud. The z13s is designed to perform in the open digital era through improvements like increased throughput, faster analytics processing, encryption functions, data compression, and memory management. It also discusses how z Systems provides an optimized platform to accelerate time to value for organizations in the API economy.
This document provides instructions for installing and configuring IBM FlashCopy Manager for VMware to backup two SAP virtual machines using IBM XIV and Storwize V7000 storage systems. It describes installing FlashCopy Manager on a Linux server, setting up the required storage array interfaces, and creating protection jobs through the vCenter plug-in to take application-consistent snapshots of the SAP VMs for backup purposes with minimal downtime.
Learn how Snowball Edge and AWS Elemental can aid in Tactical Edge deployment scenarios. Examine specific use cases in Motion Imagery, and how hybrid cloud combined with AWS Media Services are enabling a next-generation FMV (full motion video) experience for Defense & Intelligence workflows.
Saipem is an Italian engineering and construction company that operates in remote locations around the world. It faced challenges in communicating across its dispersed workforce until implementing a Cisco collaboration system including videoconferencing and WebEx. This system allows employees to communicate effectively for safety, operations, and personal reasons from any location. It has reduced travel costs and improved productivity, employee satisfaction, and IT support.
IBM Spectrum Storage was introduced in February 2015 as a family of optimized software-defined storage solutions. It provides unified analytics-driven management for any storage, advanced data placement to maximize performance and efficiency, and deployment flexibility. Over the last 6 months, IBM Spectrum Storage has added several new capabilities including management, protection, archiving, virtualization, acceleration, and scaling solutions. It offers comprehensive data protection with dedupe that can reduce backup infrastructure costs by up to 53%.
Storage Cloud and Spectrum deck 2017 June updateJoe Krotz
IBM offers several all-flash storage solutions as part of their IBM Spectrum Virtualize software defined storage portfolio, including the IBM FlashSystem V9000, which provides the highest performance and capacity. The FlashSystem A9000 is optimized for the lowest latency applications. IBM also offers the FlashSystem 900 as an entry-level all-flash solution. These solutions leverage IBM's FlashCore technology and provide scalability, integration with VMware, and improved flash management features.
1. SoundBus is a new media technology company that uses ultrasonic "sound codes" similar to QR codes to connect users. It operates its core Oi-Fi technology and services on AWS for rapid deployment, central management, and secure, stable services.
2. SoundBus uses many AWS services like EC2, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, VPC and ELB to securely store billions of sound codes, handle sudden traffic spikes, efficiently decode sound codes, maintain 24/7 operations, and screen web pages. This allows for lower costs, faster innovation, and global business expansion compared to building their own infrastructure.
3. Migrating to AWS' global infrastructure helped Sound
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This IBM Redpaper provides a brief overview of OpenStack and a basic familiarity of its usage with the IBM XIV Storage System Gen3. The illustration scenario that is presented uses the OpenStack Folsom release implementation IaaS with Ubuntu Linux servers and the IBM Storage Driver for OpenStack. For more information on IBM Storage Systems, visit http://ibm.co/LIg7gk.
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Learn how all flash needs end to end Storage efficiency. For more information on IBM FlashSystem, visit http://ibm.co/10KodHl.
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Learn about vSphere Storage API for Array Integration on the IBM Storwize family. IBM Storwize V7000 Unified combines the block storage capabilities of Storwize V7000 with file storage capabilities into a single system for greater ease of management and efficiency. For more information on IBM Storage Systems, visit http://ibm.co/LIg7gk.
Visit http://bit.ly/KWh5Dx to 'Follow' the official Twitter handle of IBM India Smarter Computing.
Learn about IBM FlashSystem 840 and its complete product specification in this Redbook. FlashSystem 840 provides scalable performance for the most demanding enterprise class applications. IBM FlashSystem 840 accelerates response times with IBM MicroLatency to enable faster decision making. For more information on IBM FlashSystem, visit http://ibm.co/10KodHl.
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Learn about the IBM System x3250 M5,.The x3250 M5 offers the following energy-efficiency features to save energy, reduce operational costs, increase energy availability, and contribute to a green environment, energy-efficient planar components help lower operational costs. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
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This Redbook talks about the product specification of IBM NeXtScale nx360 M4. The NeXtScale nx360 M4 server provides a dense, flexible solution with a low total cost of ownership (TCO). The half-wide, dual-socket NeXtScale nx360 M4 server is designed for data centers that require high performance but are constrained by floor space. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
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The IBM System x3650 M4 HD is a (1) 2-socket 2U rack-optimized server that supports up to 32 internal drives and features an innovative design for optimal performance, uptime, and dense storage. It offers (2) excellent reliability, availability, and serviceability for improved business environments. The server is (3) designed for easy deployment, integration, service, and management.
Here are the product specification for IBM System x3300 M4. This product can be managed remotely.The x3300 M4 server contains IBM IMM2, which provides advanced service-processor control, monitoring, and an alerting function. The IMM2 lights LEDs to help you diagnose the problem, records the error in the event log, and alerts you to the problem. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
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Learn about IBM System x iDataPlex dx360 M4. IBM System x iDataPlex is an innovative data center solution that maximizes performance and optimizes energy and space efficiency. The iDataPlex solution provides customers with outstanding energy and cooling efficiency, multi-rack level manageability, complete flexibility in configuration, and minimal deployment effort. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
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The IBM System x3500 M4 server provides powerful and scalable performance for business applications in an energy efficient tower or rack design. It features the latest Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 or E5-2600 processors with up to 24 cores, 768GB RAM, 32 hard drives, and 8 PCIe slots. Comprehensive systems management tools and redundant components help ensure high availability, while its small footprint and 80 Plus Platinum power supplies reduce data center costs.
Learn about system specification for IBM System x3550 M4. The x3550 M4 offers numerous features to boost performance, improve scalability, and reduce costs. Improves productivity by offering superior system performance with up to 12-core processors, up to 30 MB of L3 cache, and up to two 8 GT/s QPI interconnect links. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
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Agence France-Presse rises to global news media demands
1. Case Study
Media & Entertainment
IBM Systems and Technology
Regarded as one of the oldest press agencies in the world, Agence
France-Presse (AFP) has delivered in-depth news coverage for more
than 175 years. Based in Paris, France, AFP draws from a network of
200 bureaus in 150 countries, providing news on politics, sports,
entertainment and other topics. AFP delivers news to clients ranging
from TV networks such as BBC and CNN to websites such as Yahoo!
and Google.
Addressing increasing demands for digital news
media
One challenge faced by AFP was the need to respond to growing client
demands for digital news media. According to Laurent Cervera, storage
and virtualization architect at AFP, “Each day, we produce about 5,000
text dispatches, 2,500 photos and 200 videos, as well as about 100
graphics. During major events, such as the Olympic Games, we can
produce as many as 10,000 photos and 200 videos.” Not only is it
challenging for AFP to handle the exponential data growth, but it also
can be difficult to ensure high performance of agency storage resources
while keeping up with client demands. Reliably delivering news media
to clients with minimal interruption is critical to AFP’s business.
AFP needed to take a new approach to its storage strategy, increasing
its focus on growing client needs for media. Instead of relying on its
existing storage area network (SAN) infrastructure—made up of
monolithic high-end and midrange storage arrays that were difficult to
manage and scale—AFP decided that using smaller storage arrays with
better management capabilities could improve storage flexibility and
cost-effectiveness, and also satisfy storage performance requirements
Agence France-Presse
rises to global news
media demands
Using IBM storage solutions for optimal flexibility,
performance and cost-effectiveness
Overview
The need
Agence France-Presse (AFP)—needing a
new approach to store growing digital
media volumes—adopted a strategy
based on small storage arrays designed
to ensure high performance and
scalability.
The solution
The agency implemented IBM®
Storwize® V7000 storage systems and
evaluated IBM Storwize V3700 storage
systems. AFP also used IBM System
Storage® Easy Tier® and IBM System
Storage SAN Volume Controller.
The benefit
AFP deployed a Storwize V7000 system in
one day using one technician in response
to video demands during the 2012
Olympic Games; the IBM solution
provided improved scalability and
reduced costs.
2. 2
Case Study
Media & Entertainment
IBM Systems and Technology
driven by client demands. Cervera says, “With this configuration, we
can dedicate a small array to a large volume of photos and videos, and
another small array to indexes and databases. This configuration can
help us to achieve high performance while significantly reducing our
storage costs.”
Approaching storage from a different angle
After consulting with IBM and carefully considering its options, the
agency implemented IBM Storwize V7000 systems. According to
Vincent Louvel, manager of storage, virtualization and backup facilities
at AFP, “We needed a system capable of storing our multimedia data so
we could bring richer content to our customers. We selected Storwize
V7000 arrays because they offered great performance and excellent data
compression.” Ideal for smaller arrays, the Storwize V7000 also enabled
easier management with reduced administration. Regarding the
systems’ simplified management and scalability, Cervera says, “The
IBM solution allowed us to expand storage easily, little by little, which
was much better than our previous large architecture that was overly
complex.”
After AFP deployed nine Storwize V7000 arrays, IBM offered the
agency the chance to evaluate the new IBM Storwize V3700 systems as
part of a beta-testing program. AFP took advantage of this opportunity
and quickly recognized that the Storwize V3700 could provide
impressive benefits for management, flexibility and efficiency in a
smaller footprint.
Currently, AFP is using several features on its Storwize V7000 systems.
Thin provisioning enables AFP to purchase capacity as needed—
thereby reducing disk costs. Nondisruptive migration helps AFP to
migrate data between storage arrays without interrupting data access.
AFP also leverages IBM System Storage Easy Tier technology on the
Storwize V7000 to optimize its deployment of solid-state drives (SSDs)
and to further reduce disk costs.
The agency uses IBM SAN Volume Controller on its Storwize V7000
and Storwize V3700 systems to perform mirroring, creating a
redundant storage architecture. This helps AFP ensure reliability to
meet client demands without interruption.
“The IBM solution allowed
us to expand storage easily,
little by little,which was
much better than our
previous large
architecture that was
overly complex.”
—
Laurent Cervera, storage and virtualization
architect, Agence France-Presse
3. 3
Case Study
Media Entertainment
IBM Systems and Technology
Providing cost-effective flexibility and
scalability
After deploying Storwize V7000 arrays, AFP realized several benefits
impacting the agency and its clients. The systems’ scalability helped
AFP to easily expand storage capacity according to its fluctuating client
needs. For example, AFP added a storage array to accommodate the
increased client demands for videos during the 2012 Olympic Games—
an expansion that required only one day of installation by a single
technician. Regarding the user interface behind the simplified
installation and management, Louvel says, “We really like the Storwize
graphical interface. It is very modern and user-friendly.”
The high density of the Storwize V7000 disks enabled AFP to reduce
both its storage footprint and its disk costs. The system also
demonstrated impressive flexibility, with multiple small arrays proving
to be ideal for the agency’s grid-computing approach.
Future deployment of the Storwize V3700 systems at AFP’s remote
offices will help the agency achieve its storage goals on another level,
enabling consolidation and sharing of more data with an adaptable,
low-cost, high-performance storage platform. The Storwize V3700
provides AFP with advanced software capabilities usually found in more
expensive storage systems, giving the agency the flexibility to provide
media storage for specific data types or for certain geographic regions.
“With the Storwize V3700, we have the disk density and flexibility that
will enable our storage capacity to evolve,” says Louvel.
The ease of installation and use provided by the Storwize V3700 has
demonstrated a management advantage for AFP. The Storwize V3700
includes an interface similar to the one found with SAN Volume
Controller, which the IT staff was already familiar with. “Everything is
graphical and clear. You don’t need to study for five years to manage
your storage,” says Cervera.
Continuing to stay ahead of global media
demands
Having now formed a strong partnership, AFP plans to continue
working with IBM to meet the evolving storage needs of the agency
and its clients. In Storwize systems, AFP has found the right set of
capabilities to help it stay ahead of the digital news media curve and
deliver rich content in a demanding global environment.
Solution Components:
Hardware
• IBM® Storwize® V7000
Software
• IBM System Storage® Easy Tier®
• IBM System Storage SAN Volume
Controller