Citigroup built an internal cloud using IBM Cloudburst and Tivoli software to automate server provisioning for its 20,000 application developers. This reduced provisioning times from 45 days to under 20 minutes, accelerating development cycles. The cloud improved utilization rates, cut operational costs, and allowed Citigroup to rapidly deliver new features to customers.
1) The document discusses IBM's cloud computing strategy and offerings called SmartCloud.
2) SmartCloud aims to help organizations transform IT from cost centers to strategic innovation centers by enabling faster deployment, improved access to resources, and variable costs through public, private and hybrid cloud models.
3) IBM focuses on capturing the cloud market across infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, and business process/software as a service through its SmartCloud foundation technologies, managed cloud services, and cloud business solutions.
1) The document discusses considerations for building a private cloud, including leveraging the transformational power of cloud computing to enable new business models, deliver IT without boundaries, and improve business agility.
2) It recommends mapping current applications and services to a cloud deployment strategy to prioritize workloads for migration to private, public, or hybrid clouds.
3) The evolution from current infrastructure to a cloud-based delivery model is described, starting with virtualization and advancing to consumption-based metering and automation of service delivery.
This paper will discuss how cloud is helping enterprises, governments and industries around the globe meet their current challenges through key value drivers.
IBM offers private cloud services to help organizations transform their business models by providing flexible, on-demand access to IT resources behind a firewall. These services include strategy and design consulting to help develop a private cloud roadmap, workload analysis to identify good candidates for migration, and implementation services to build out a private cloud infrastructure on-premises or hosted. IBM's portfolio is designed to support every stage of the private cloud transition from planning to ongoing management.
Cloud computing is the provision of dynamically scalable and often virtualised resources as a service over the internet (public cloud) or intranet (private cloud)
Smarter Storage in the Smarter Computing Era - A New Approach to Storage - Ak...Jyothi Satyanathan
1. The document summarizes a presentation given by Akhil Kamat of IBM India & South Asia titled "Smarter Storage in the Smarter Computing Era" on November 22-24, 2012 in Jaipur, India.
2. It discusses the growth of digital data and adoption of cloud computing as well as challenges around managing data explosion, inflexible systems, and escalating IT complexity.
3. The presentation introduces IBM Smarter Storage solutions for efficiently managing costs and capacity growth through maximizing storage utilization, simplifying storage management, and predictably growing storage infrastructure.
Demystifying cloud computing with IBM POWER Systems and IBM i COMMON Europe
This document discusses IBM Power Systems cloud computing solutions. It begins by explaining how cloud computing can help businesses by improving efficiency and reducing costs. It then provides an overview of IBM's cloud offerings including Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, Software as a Service, and hybrid cloud solutions. The document focuses on IBM SmartCloud Entry, a basic private cloud solution for Power Systems. It describes the key capabilities of SmartCloud Entry such as projects, appliances, workloads, metering, and four-click deployment. Finally, it discusses advanced cloud solutions like CloudBurst that provide a fully integrated platform for private clouds.
1) The document describes IBM's Enterprise virtual machine infrastructure on the IBM Cloud, which provides virtual server instances that customers can use to help reduce costs, increase business agility, and improve security.
2) It allows customers to quickly provision virtual servers on demand and only pay for resources when needed, helping reduce capital and operational expenses compared to owning physical infrastructure.
3) Customers can choose from various operating system and software images and have tools to automate server provisioning, helping speed application development and deployment cycles.
1) The document discusses IBM's cloud computing strategy and offerings called SmartCloud.
2) SmartCloud aims to help organizations transform IT from cost centers to strategic innovation centers by enabling faster deployment, improved access to resources, and variable costs through public, private and hybrid cloud models.
3) IBM focuses on capturing the cloud market across infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, and business process/software as a service through its SmartCloud foundation technologies, managed cloud services, and cloud business solutions.
1) The document discusses considerations for building a private cloud, including leveraging the transformational power of cloud computing to enable new business models, deliver IT without boundaries, and improve business agility.
2) It recommends mapping current applications and services to a cloud deployment strategy to prioritize workloads for migration to private, public, or hybrid clouds.
3) The evolution from current infrastructure to a cloud-based delivery model is described, starting with virtualization and advancing to consumption-based metering and automation of service delivery.
This paper will discuss how cloud is helping enterprises, governments and industries around the globe meet their current challenges through key value drivers.
IBM offers private cloud services to help organizations transform their business models by providing flexible, on-demand access to IT resources behind a firewall. These services include strategy and design consulting to help develop a private cloud roadmap, workload analysis to identify good candidates for migration, and implementation services to build out a private cloud infrastructure on-premises or hosted. IBM's portfolio is designed to support every stage of the private cloud transition from planning to ongoing management.
Cloud computing is the provision of dynamically scalable and often virtualised resources as a service over the internet (public cloud) or intranet (private cloud)
Smarter Storage in the Smarter Computing Era - A New Approach to Storage - Ak...Jyothi Satyanathan
1. The document summarizes a presentation given by Akhil Kamat of IBM India & South Asia titled "Smarter Storage in the Smarter Computing Era" on November 22-24, 2012 in Jaipur, India.
2. It discusses the growth of digital data and adoption of cloud computing as well as challenges around managing data explosion, inflexible systems, and escalating IT complexity.
3. The presentation introduces IBM Smarter Storage solutions for efficiently managing costs and capacity growth through maximizing storage utilization, simplifying storage management, and predictably growing storage infrastructure.
Demystifying cloud computing with IBM POWER Systems and IBM i COMMON Europe
This document discusses IBM Power Systems cloud computing solutions. It begins by explaining how cloud computing can help businesses by improving efficiency and reducing costs. It then provides an overview of IBM's cloud offerings including Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, Software as a Service, and hybrid cloud solutions. The document focuses on IBM SmartCloud Entry, a basic private cloud solution for Power Systems. It describes the key capabilities of SmartCloud Entry such as projects, appliances, workloads, metering, and four-click deployment. Finally, it discusses advanced cloud solutions like CloudBurst that provide a fully integrated platform for private clouds.
1) The document describes IBM's Enterprise virtual machine infrastructure on the IBM Cloud, which provides virtual server instances that customers can use to help reduce costs, increase business agility, and improve security.
2) It allows customers to quickly provision virtual servers on demand and only pay for resources when needed, helping reduce capital and operational expenses compared to owning physical infrastructure.
3) Customers can choose from various operating system and software images and have tools to automate server provisioning, helping speed application development and deployment cycles.
The document summarizes the findings of a survey of 110 cloud computing implementation projects conducted by IBM. Key findings include:
1) Primary motivations for cloud implementations were IT efficiencies, ease of use consumer interfaces, and new charging models, while security concerns, pricing strategies, complexity, lack of standardization, and unclear value propositions were biggest inhibitors.
2) Integrated vendor offerings and ongoing support were in high demand. Service design was the most important ITIL discipline.
3) Current cloud usage focused on development/test and non-critical workloads, but respondents expected to deploy clouds across all workloads in two years. There was a 30/70 split between public and private clouds currently.
MISA Cloud Workshop_ Roadmap to a municipal community cloud in canadaMISA Ontario Cloud SIG
The document provides an overview of cloud computing and its benefits for municipalities. It discusses how cloud computing can help cities work smarter by leveraging information, anticipating problems, and coordinating resources. The document outlines different cloud deployment options and common adoption patterns among cities. Case studies are presented showing how cloud computing has helped cities in Rio de Janeiro, China, and several towns in New York to improve services, reduce costs, and drive economic development.
IBM is redefining x86 computing with smarter computing solutions that simplify deployment and management, improve visibility and decision making, and increase business agility and flexibility. Key innovations include cloud technologies that enable self-service automation and optimize virtual machine traffic, optimized systems that provide faster deployment and industry-leading cooling, and analytics capabilities that provide rapid access to data and high performance processing. These solutions help clients reduce costs, gain insights, and adapt quickly to changing business needs.
This document discusses cloud computing trends through 2012. It notes that cloud computing has become a major IT trend and that 69% of online users already utilize public cloud services. However, not all enterprises fully subscribe to the cloud due to constraints versus benefits. The document explores what cloud computing is, how it has evolved from previous technologies, and the value it provides to businesses through flexibility, economies of scale, and pay-per-use models.
Dave Nelson COMMON Europe 2012 - Vienna IBM Keynote 6-06-12-v1COMMON Europe
The document summarizes IBM's Power Systems and IBM i products and strategies. It discusses how IBM i is designed for answering questions with data, tuned for optimized task performance, and managed with cloud technologies. It also outlines IBM's investments in solutions enablement, simplified management, resilient systems, and cloud computing for IBM i between 2012-2016. Finally, it announces two new IBM Champions for Power Systems and invites joining the Champion community.
Jambey Clinkscales gave presentation on "The Value of Cloud in the Business Technology Ecosystem" at the 2011 BDPA Technology Conference in Chicago.
Jambey shared his thoughts on the workshop during BDPA iRadio Show interview held on August 28, 2011 --> http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bdpa/2011/08/29/bdpa-iradio-workshop-presenters
Workshop Presenter:
Jambey Clinkscales
Capabilites and Program Manager, HP Enterprise Services
Topic: The Value of the Cloud in the Business Technology Ecology
BDPA New York Chapter
1) The document discusses the importance of having a proven cloud reference architecture when selecting a cloud vendor.
2) It describes IBM's cloud reference architecture, which is based on open standards, delivers robust security and governance, and supports various cloud service models.
3) The architecture employs best practices through continuous improvement and ensures consistency across IBM's cloud development and delivery projects.
Ibm Smart Business Overview Jimmy MillsJimmy Mills
IBM has been talking about our vision for a smarter planet for close to a year now- and working with thousands of clients - with great success and traction taking hold. Every industry is experiencing the benefits, and feeling the challenges, being presented by a smarter planet that is more instrumented, interconnected and intelligent.
An example is cloud computing: The economics driving cloud computing is not new technologies. Rather it is the combination of existing technologies with a focus on the end user. Virtualization drives higher utilization which lowers capital and operating expenses. Standardization also reduces capital and labor costs, while automation drives enhance user experience and automates many manual tasks to reduce errors and reduce the costs associated with managing an environment.
The document discusses how datacenter networks are evolving from fixed, hierarchical designs optimized for client/server transactions to dynamic networks better suited to cloud computing and big data needs. This requires flattening network topologies, converging server and storage networks onto high-speed Ethernet fabrics, and introducing more intelligence and flexibility at the network edge to support virtualized, application-driven workloads. The network must be able to quickly and reliably handle increased server-to-server traffic within the datacenter in order to enable real-time analytics across massive and diverse data sources.
The document discusses the rise of big data and why it is important for organizations now. It notes that the volume of data is growing exponentially and will soon reach zettabytes in size. However, most of this data is unstructured and many business leaders do not have access to all the information they need or do not fully trust the information they have. The traditional approach of having IT design structured solutions based on business requirements is no longer sufficient. Instead, the document advocates a big data approach where organizations explore and analyze all available data sources using a platform to discover new insights in an iterative manner and determine new questions to ask. IBM's big data platform is presented as a solution to address these needs by handling large volumes,
PCTY 2012, Maximo/Tririga update v. Jens CajusIBM Danmark
This document provides an update on Maximo and TRIRIGA products. It outlines enhancements to Maximo Asset Management and industry solutions, as well as the roadmaps for Maximo, TRIRIGA, and Intelligent Building Management solutions through 2014/2015. New capabilities for Maximo Scheduler are also highlighted, including improved schedule compliance, labor assignments, dispatching, and field technician efficiency.
Cloud computing will transform the IT industry by profoundly changing how people work and companies operate. It is a new model for delivering and consuming IT resources inspired by consumer internet services. Cloud computing enables economies of scale, flexible pricing, and workload-based resource provisioning. Understanding workloads is critical for helping businesses optimize their infrastructure and choose appropriate cloud deployment models and consumption approaches.
This document discusses the deployment of private clouds with IBM systems and software. It outlines the basic technical requirements for private clouds, such as robust virtualization platforms and good management tools. It also discusses the need for standardizing virtual machine images and automating provisioning tasks. Once these practices are in place, private clouds can introduce cost savings by eliminating administrative overhead through self-service catalogs. IBM is well-positioned to help customers deploy private clouds through solutions like CloudBurst, IBM Service Delivery Manager, and Tivoli Service Automation Manager that support virtualization on IBM server platforms.
This document provides an overview of cloud computing, including:
1. Definitions of cloud computing, its essential characteristics of on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and pay-per-use pricing.
2. The three service models of cloud computing: Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service.
3. The four deployment models of cloud computing: private cloud, community cloud, public cloud, and hybrid cloud.
4. Benefits of cloud computing include increasing speed and flexibility while reducing costs through improved server utilization, shorter payback periods, and variable rather than fixed pricing.
IBM Smarter Business 2012 - PureSystems - PureDataIBM Sverige
1) IBM's PureSystems are expert integrated systems that simplify IT challenges around big data by capturing built-in expertise and deeply integrating hardware and software.
2) PureSystems deliver greater simplicity, speed, and lower cost across the entire IT lifecycle from design to deployment to management through pre-integration and automation.
3) The PureData System delivers optimized data platforms and services for transactions, analytics, and operational analytics workloads through scale-out clusters of DB2, Netezza, and other technologies.
This IDC white paper highlights how IBM eX5 systems with MAX5 memory technology play a significant role in increasing the value of memory dense servers.
Ctrls delineates how organizations are moving towards Virtualization and Cloud Computing to optimize their IT Infrastructure needs. Benefits such as cost effectiveness, scalability on demand, moving from a CAPEX to OPEX model and increased returns on investments have made virtualization a lucrative datacenter option.
The promise of cloud computing is realized because of its
essential fundamentals—standardization of infrastructure,
virtualized resources and automated processes—and the
business results are measurable. Cloud computing represents
a paradigm shift at many levels, but the ‘return on investment’
that cloud customers are realizing cannot be overstated.
This white paper discusses how cloud computing can drive value for enterprises by lowering IT costs and enabling innovation. Some key points:
1) Cloud computing provides on-demand, scalable access to computing resources and enables a pay-per-use model that can significantly lower both capital and operating costs for IT compared to maintaining physical infrastructure.
2) Standardizing applications and infrastructure on cloud platforms further drives down costs through improved efficiency and reduced complexity.
3) In addition to cost savings, cloud also allows organizations to innovate faster, access new markets more easily, and optimize existing IT investments through an elastic, globally available environment.
Cloud computing provides several key business benefits:
1) It lowers IT costs by increasing infrastructure utilization and automation.
2) It enables access to IT resources and applications on a flexible, "pay-as-you-go" basis.
3) It simplifies IT for end users by removing complexity and allowing access from any device.
Cloud adoption strategies vary depending on a company's size and industry dynamics, but cloud pilots can help organizations understand how cloud may address their business needs in a low-risk way.
This document discusses IBM's perspective on cloud computing. It defines cloud computing, outlines some potential benefits like cost efficiency and flexibility, and differentiates between public and private clouds. It then describes the key technologies behind cloud computing like scalability, automation, and standardized user experiences. The document also highlights examples of IBM's leadership in developing both cloud infrastructure and cloud-based applications and services. Finally, it considers some common questions around how cloud computing can help drive innovation, optimization, and competitive advantage.
Cloud Computing for Banking
What does the future of cloud computing for banking look like—both in the near and long terms? Accenture sees cloud computing as an important step in the continuing industrialization of IT and thus capable of ultimately playing a key role in enabling high performance.
The document summarizes the findings of a survey of 110 cloud computing implementation projects conducted by IBM. Key findings include:
1) Primary motivations for cloud implementations were IT efficiencies, ease of use consumer interfaces, and new charging models, while security concerns, pricing strategies, complexity, lack of standardization, and unclear value propositions were biggest inhibitors.
2) Integrated vendor offerings and ongoing support were in high demand. Service design was the most important ITIL discipline.
3) Current cloud usage focused on development/test and non-critical workloads, but respondents expected to deploy clouds across all workloads in two years. There was a 30/70 split between public and private clouds currently.
MISA Cloud Workshop_ Roadmap to a municipal community cloud in canadaMISA Ontario Cloud SIG
The document provides an overview of cloud computing and its benefits for municipalities. It discusses how cloud computing can help cities work smarter by leveraging information, anticipating problems, and coordinating resources. The document outlines different cloud deployment options and common adoption patterns among cities. Case studies are presented showing how cloud computing has helped cities in Rio de Janeiro, China, and several towns in New York to improve services, reduce costs, and drive economic development.
IBM is redefining x86 computing with smarter computing solutions that simplify deployment and management, improve visibility and decision making, and increase business agility and flexibility. Key innovations include cloud technologies that enable self-service automation and optimize virtual machine traffic, optimized systems that provide faster deployment and industry-leading cooling, and analytics capabilities that provide rapid access to data and high performance processing. These solutions help clients reduce costs, gain insights, and adapt quickly to changing business needs.
This document discusses cloud computing trends through 2012. It notes that cloud computing has become a major IT trend and that 69% of online users already utilize public cloud services. However, not all enterprises fully subscribe to the cloud due to constraints versus benefits. The document explores what cloud computing is, how it has evolved from previous technologies, and the value it provides to businesses through flexibility, economies of scale, and pay-per-use models.
Dave Nelson COMMON Europe 2012 - Vienna IBM Keynote 6-06-12-v1COMMON Europe
The document summarizes IBM's Power Systems and IBM i products and strategies. It discusses how IBM i is designed for answering questions with data, tuned for optimized task performance, and managed with cloud technologies. It also outlines IBM's investments in solutions enablement, simplified management, resilient systems, and cloud computing for IBM i between 2012-2016. Finally, it announces two new IBM Champions for Power Systems and invites joining the Champion community.
Jambey Clinkscales gave presentation on "The Value of Cloud in the Business Technology Ecosystem" at the 2011 BDPA Technology Conference in Chicago.
Jambey shared his thoughts on the workshop during BDPA iRadio Show interview held on August 28, 2011 --> http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bdpa/2011/08/29/bdpa-iradio-workshop-presenters
Workshop Presenter:
Jambey Clinkscales
Capabilites and Program Manager, HP Enterprise Services
Topic: The Value of the Cloud in the Business Technology Ecology
BDPA New York Chapter
1) The document discusses the importance of having a proven cloud reference architecture when selecting a cloud vendor.
2) It describes IBM's cloud reference architecture, which is based on open standards, delivers robust security and governance, and supports various cloud service models.
3) The architecture employs best practices through continuous improvement and ensures consistency across IBM's cloud development and delivery projects.
Ibm Smart Business Overview Jimmy MillsJimmy Mills
IBM has been talking about our vision for a smarter planet for close to a year now- and working with thousands of clients - with great success and traction taking hold. Every industry is experiencing the benefits, and feeling the challenges, being presented by a smarter planet that is more instrumented, interconnected and intelligent.
An example is cloud computing: The economics driving cloud computing is not new technologies. Rather it is the combination of existing technologies with a focus on the end user. Virtualization drives higher utilization which lowers capital and operating expenses. Standardization also reduces capital and labor costs, while automation drives enhance user experience and automates many manual tasks to reduce errors and reduce the costs associated with managing an environment.
The document discusses how datacenter networks are evolving from fixed, hierarchical designs optimized for client/server transactions to dynamic networks better suited to cloud computing and big data needs. This requires flattening network topologies, converging server and storage networks onto high-speed Ethernet fabrics, and introducing more intelligence and flexibility at the network edge to support virtualized, application-driven workloads. The network must be able to quickly and reliably handle increased server-to-server traffic within the datacenter in order to enable real-time analytics across massive and diverse data sources.
The document discusses the rise of big data and why it is important for organizations now. It notes that the volume of data is growing exponentially and will soon reach zettabytes in size. However, most of this data is unstructured and many business leaders do not have access to all the information they need or do not fully trust the information they have. The traditional approach of having IT design structured solutions based on business requirements is no longer sufficient. Instead, the document advocates a big data approach where organizations explore and analyze all available data sources using a platform to discover new insights in an iterative manner and determine new questions to ask. IBM's big data platform is presented as a solution to address these needs by handling large volumes,
PCTY 2012, Maximo/Tririga update v. Jens CajusIBM Danmark
This document provides an update on Maximo and TRIRIGA products. It outlines enhancements to Maximo Asset Management and industry solutions, as well as the roadmaps for Maximo, TRIRIGA, and Intelligent Building Management solutions through 2014/2015. New capabilities for Maximo Scheduler are also highlighted, including improved schedule compliance, labor assignments, dispatching, and field technician efficiency.
Cloud computing will transform the IT industry by profoundly changing how people work and companies operate. It is a new model for delivering and consuming IT resources inspired by consumer internet services. Cloud computing enables economies of scale, flexible pricing, and workload-based resource provisioning. Understanding workloads is critical for helping businesses optimize their infrastructure and choose appropriate cloud deployment models and consumption approaches.
This document discusses the deployment of private clouds with IBM systems and software. It outlines the basic technical requirements for private clouds, such as robust virtualization platforms and good management tools. It also discusses the need for standardizing virtual machine images and automating provisioning tasks. Once these practices are in place, private clouds can introduce cost savings by eliminating administrative overhead through self-service catalogs. IBM is well-positioned to help customers deploy private clouds through solutions like CloudBurst, IBM Service Delivery Manager, and Tivoli Service Automation Manager that support virtualization on IBM server platforms.
This document provides an overview of cloud computing, including:
1. Definitions of cloud computing, its essential characteristics of on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and pay-per-use pricing.
2. The three service models of cloud computing: Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service.
3. The four deployment models of cloud computing: private cloud, community cloud, public cloud, and hybrid cloud.
4. Benefits of cloud computing include increasing speed and flexibility while reducing costs through improved server utilization, shorter payback periods, and variable rather than fixed pricing.
IBM Smarter Business 2012 - PureSystems - PureDataIBM Sverige
1) IBM's PureSystems are expert integrated systems that simplify IT challenges around big data by capturing built-in expertise and deeply integrating hardware and software.
2) PureSystems deliver greater simplicity, speed, and lower cost across the entire IT lifecycle from design to deployment to management through pre-integration and automation.
3) The PureData System delivers optimized data platforms and services for transactions, analytics, and operational analytics workloads through scale-out clusters of DB2, Netezza, and other technologies.
This IDC white paper highlights how IBM eX5 systems with MAX5 memory technology play a significant role in increasing the value of memory dense servers.
Ctrls delineates how organizations are moving towards Virtualization and Cloud Computing to optimize their IT Infrastructure needs. Benefits such as cost effectiveness, scalability on demand, moving from a CAPEX to OPEX model and increased returns on investments have made virtualization a lucrative datacenter option.
The promise of cloud computing is realized because of its
essential fundamentals—standardization of infrastructure,
virtualized resources and automated processes—and the
business results are measurable. Cloud computing represents
a paradigm shift at many levels, but the ‘return on investment’
that cloud customers are realizing cannot be overstated.
This white paper discusses how cloud computing can drive value for enterprises by lowering IT costs and enabling innovation. Some key points:
1) Cloud computing provides on-demand, scalable access to computing resources and enables a pay-per-use model that can significantly lower both capital and operating costs for IT compared to maintaining physical infrastructure.
2) Standardizing applications and infrastructure on cloud platforms further drives down costs through improved efficiency and reduced complexity.
3) In addition to cost savings, cloud also allows organizations to innovate faster, access new markets more easily, and optimize existing IT investments through an elastic, globally available environment.
Cloud computing provides several key business benefits:
1) It lowers IT costs by increasing infrastructure utilization and automation.
2) It enables access to IT resources and applications on a flexible, "pay-as-you-go" basis.
3) It simplifies IT for end users by removing complexity and allowing access from any device.
Cloud adoption strategies vary depending on a company's size and industry dynamics, but cloud pilots can help organizations understand how cloud may address their business needs in a low-risk way.
This document discusses IBM's perspective on cloud computing. It defines cloud computing, outlines some potential benefits like cost efficiency and flexibility, and differentiates between public and private clouds. It then describes the key technologies behind cloud computing like scalability, automation, and standardized user experiences. The document also highlights examples of IBM's leadership in developing both cloud infrastructure and cloud-based applications and services. Finally, it considers some common questions around how cloud computing can help drive innovation, optimization, and competitive advantage.
Cloud Computing for Banking
What does the future of cloud computing for banking look like—both in the near and long terms? Accenture sees cloud computing as an important step in the continuing industrialization of IT and thus capable of ultimately playing a key role in enabling high performance.
The document discusses how smarter computing and cloud computing can transform businesses by addressing challenges around increased data, demands, and complexity. It outlines how cloud computing provides unique value through rapid service delivery, data-driven insights, and increased efficiency. Finally, it presents IBM's SmartCloud platform and services for helping clients implement cloud strategies through consulting, infrastructure, and applications.
Learn about how cloud computing has accelerated IBM’s ability to innovate and do so in ways that improve how
IBM delivers services and support. In short, it has become a catalyst
for business transformation at IBM.
1) IBM implemented private clouds internally to standardize and automate key IT workloads in order to dramatically reduce costs and improve efficiency.
2) The three workloads that produced the most benefits were development and test, analytics, and storage. Development and test workloads saw provisioning times drop from 5 days to 1 hour and eliminated testing backlogs. Analytics workloads consolidated siloed business intelligence projects, saving tens of millions over 5 years. Storage workloads reduced costs by nearly 50% while accommodating 25% annual data growth without increased budgets.
3) Through internal cloud implementations, IBM saw firsthand the transformative impact on business from improved efficiency and lower costs. Workload selection is critical to cloud success
- The document discusses the evolution of cloud computing from earlier concepts like grid computing and how cloud computing enables dynamic provisioning of computing resources.
- It introduces IBM's vision for a new enterprise data center that brings together strengths of cloud computing and today's enterprise data centers, providing dynamic resource allocation and high scalability on a virtualized infrastructure.
- The IBM HiPODS team is working to define a framework and best practices for large-scale data centers inspired by customers with tens to hundreds of thousands of servers, to enable key functionality and apply these economies of scale to a broad range of customers.
This document discusses how cloud computing can benefit insurance companies by helping them reduce costs and increase agility. It provides an overview of cloud computing models and services. Insurance companies can use cloud computing to more efficiently scale resources for workloads that fluctuate, develop products faster, and reduce IT operating costs. Functions like development/testing, virtual desktops, collaboration, and analytics are good candidates to move to the cloud. The document examines how different parts of insurers' operations, such as the front office, back office, compliance, and investments, could utilize cloud applications and services.
This document discusses cloud computing and provides definitions and examples. It makes the following key points:
1) Cloud computing allows on-demand access to shared computing resources like servers, storage, databases and applications over the internet.
2) Major benefits include reduced upfront costs, flexibility to scale resources up or down as needed, and a pay-per-use model.
3) Examples show how companies use cloud computing to save costs, improve efficiency and flexibility, and develop new business models.
This document discusses cloud computing and provides definitions and examples. It makes the following key points in 3 sentences:
Cloud computing allows on-demand access to shared computing resources over the internet and is growing rapidly. It offers flexibility, scalability, and reduces the need for large upfront capital expenditures. While primarily used for email, storage and testing currently, the document predicts more widespread enterprise adoption of cloud computing for additional applications and services in the coming years as standards improve around data security and storage.
1) China Telecom implemented an internal cloud computing model based on IBM technology to reduce time to market for new products from 3-4 months to just 2-3 days.
2) The solution included IBM Power servers virtualized with IBM PowerVM and managed as a private cloud with IBM Systems Director VMControl to improve utilization of resources.
3) This allowed China Telecom to consolidate hardware and reduce costs by over 50% while improving flexibility to develop new multi-department products and services faster than competitors.
Microservice Builder: A Microservice DevOps Pipeline for Rapid Delivery and P...David Currie
Presentation from IBM InterConnect 2017.
Abstract: Acceleratate your microservice delivery and promotion with an out-of-box DevOps pipeline! In this session, you'll learn how to use the Project Liber8 DevOps pipeline. We will explore its anatomy, operation, visualization, customization and ecosystem integration. We will further examine its use in deploying to IBM Cloud and on-premise deployments. A live demo will be used to reinforce concepts.
The document describes IBM Bluemix, a cloud platform for building, running, and managing applications. Bluemix provides flexibility with public, dedicated, and local deployment options. It utilizes open technologies like Cloud Foundry, Docker, and OpenStack. Developers can build apps using services for web, data, mobile, analytics, IoT and more. Bluemix supports multiple languages and frameworks. Its hybrid model allows apps to span platforms for improved portability and management.
Cloud computing offers several advantages over traditional in-house IT solutions. It allows companies to cut costs, improve business operations, and gain access to resources without large capital investments. Cloud computing provides scalable, virtual computing resources on demand via the internet. This addresses issues many companies face with traditional outsourcing like lack of transparency, control, and inefficient processes. It allows flexible, collaborative development and testing without security or governance concerns.
The Microsoft Cloud includes Azure, Office 365 and much more. During this presentation I give an overview of the platform and talk specifically about the productivity portion of the Microsoft Cloud and the services Oakwood provides to implement Office 365 for customers.
This document provides an overview of an IBM Bluemix Fundamentals training presented by Vishal Choudhary. The training covers the importance of cloud technology and Bluemix, services available on the Bluemix platform, prerequisite skills, and the training objectives. The objectives include describing Bluemix, identifying runtimes and services, creating and deploying Bluemix applications, and using DevOps services to manage application code. Sample student projects are also outlined, such as creating a web application, college admission application, Watson chatbot, and an IoT application using Node-Red and Cloudant.
Founded in 1990 and based in Nantes, France, CBP is an independent
consultant and service provider. The company provides creditor
insurance and loans for individuals and businesses. For example, in
partnership with France’s leading lettings agency, CBP has recently
launched insurance against loss of income for people taking out new
tenancy agreements. Its services include consulting, actuarial analysis,
and processing and administration. Also operating in Barcelona,
Madrid (Spain) and Milan (Italy), CBP employed more than 500 people
and achieved EUR 108.8 million sales in 2010. CBP handles some
3 million correspondence items annually and 1 million calls, paying out
daily more than EUR 2.5 millions in claims’ compensations.
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.
Visit http://bit.ly/KWh5Dx to 'Follow' the official Twitter handle of IBM India Smarter Computing.
Learn how all flash needs end to end Storage efficiency. For more information on IBM FlashSystem, visit http://ibm.co/10KodHl.
Visit http://bit.ly/KWh5Dx to 'Follow' the official Twitter handle of IBM India Smarter Computing.
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.
Visit http://on.fb.me/LT4gdu to 'Like' the official Facebook page of IBM India Smarter Computing.
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.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210746104/IBM-System-x3250-M5
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.
Learn about IBM System x3650 M4. The x3650 M4 is an outstanding 2U two-socket business-critical server, offering improved performance and pay-as-you grow flexibility along with new features that improve server management capability. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
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Learn about the product specification of IBM System x3500 M3. System x3500 M3 has an energy-efficient design which works in conjunction with the IMM to govern fan rotation based on the readings that it delivers. This saves money under normal conditions because the fans do not have to spin at high speed. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
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Learn about IBM System x3400 M3. The x3400 M3 offers numerous features to boost performance and reduce costs, x3400 M3 has the ability to grow with your application requirements with these features. Powerful systems management features simplify local and remote management of the x3400 M3. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
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Learn about IBM System 3250 M3 which is a single-socket server that offers new levels of performance and flexibility
to help you respond quickly to changing business demands. Cost-effective and compact, it is well suited to small to mid-sized businesses, as well as large enterprises. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210740347/IBM-System-x3250-M3
Learn about IBM System x3200 M3 and its specifications. The System x3200 M3 features easy installation and management with a rich set of options for hard disk drives and memory. The efficient design helps to save energy and provide a better work environment with less heat and noise. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
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Learn about the configuration of IBM PowerVC. IBM PowerVC is built on OpenStack that controls large pools of server, storage, and networking resources throughout a data center. IBM Power Virtualization Center provides security services that support a secure environment. Installation requires just 20 minutes to get a virtual machine up and running. For more information on Power Systems, visit http://ibm.co/Lx6hfc.
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Learn about Ibm POWER7 Virtualization Performance. PowerVM Lx86 is a cross-platform virtualization solution that enables the running of a wide range of x86 Linux applications on Power Systems platforms within a Linux on Power partition without modifications or recompilation of the workloads. For more information on Power Systems, visit http://ibm.co/Lx6hfc.
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This reference architecture document describes deploying the VMware vCloud Enterprise Suite on the IBM PureFlex System hardware platform. Key points:
- The vCloud Suite software provides components for managing and delivering cloud services, while the IBM PureFlex System provides an integrated hardware platform in a single chassis.
- The reference architecture focuses on installing the vCloud Suite management components as virtual machines on an ESXi host to manage consumer resources.
- The IBM PureFlex System provides servers, networking, and storage in a single chassis that can then be easily scaled out. This standardized deployment accelerates provisioning of cloud infrastructure.
- Deployment considerations cover systems management using IBM Flex System Manager, server, networking, storage configurations
Learn how x6: The sixth generation of EXA Technology is fast, agile and Resilient for Emerging Workloads from Alex Yost. Vice President, IBM PureSystems and System x
IBM Systems and Technology Group. x6 drives cloud and big data for enterprises by achieving insight faster thereby outperforming competitors. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
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What is an RPA CoE? Session 1 – CoE VisionDianaGray10
In the first session, we will review the organization's vision and how this has an impact on the COE Structure.
Topics covered:
• The role of a steering committee
• How do the organization’s priorities determine CoE Structure?
Speaker:
Chris Bolin, Senior Intelligent Automation Architect Anika Systems
How information systems are built or acquired puts information, which is what they should be about, in a secondary place. Our language adapted accordingly, and we no longer talk about information systems but applications. Applications evolved in a way to break data into diverse fragments, tightly coupled with applications and expensive to integrate. The result is technical debt, which is re-paid by taking even bigger "loans", resulting in an ever-increasing technical debt. Software engineering and procurement practices work in sync with market forces to maintain this trend. This talk demonstrates how natural this situation is. The question is: can something be done to reverse the trend?
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Must Know Postgres Extension for DBA and Developer during MigrationMydbops
Mydbops Opensource Database Meetup 16
Topic: Must-Know PostgreSQL Extensions for Developers and DBAs During Migration
Speaker: Deepak Mahto, Founder of DataCloudGaze Consulting
Date & Time: 8th June | 10 AM - 1 PM IST
Venue: Bangalore International Centre, Bangalore
Abstract: Discover how PostgreSQL extensions can be your secret weapon! This talk explores how key extensions enhance database capabilities and streamline the migration process for users moving from other relational databases like Oracle.
Key Takeaways:
* Learn about crucial extensions like oracle_fdw, pgtt, and pg_audit that ease migration complexities.
* Gain valuable strategies for implementing these extensions in PostgreSQL to achieve license freedom.
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* Don't miss this chance to gain practical knowledge from an industry expert and stay updated on the latest open-source database trends.
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In the realm of cybersecurity, offensive security practices act as a critical shield. By simulating real-world attacks in a controlled environment, these techniques expose vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them. This proactive approach allows manufacturers to identify and fix weaknesses, significantly enhancing system security.
This presentation delves into the development of a system designed to mimic Galileo's Open Service signal using software-defined radio (SDR) technology. We'll begin with a foundational overview of both Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and the intricacies of digital signal processing.
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I develop the Ruby programming language, RubyGems, and Bundler, which are package managers for Ruby. Today, I will introduce how to enhance the security of your application using open-source software (OSS) examples from Ruby and RubyGems.
The first topic is CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). I have published CVEs many times. But what exactly is a CVE? I'll provide a basic understanding of CVEs and explain how to detect and handle vulnerabilities in OSS.
Next, let's discuss package managers. Package managers play a critical role in the OSS ecosystem. I'll explain how to manage library dependencies in your application.
I'll share insights into how the Ruby and RubyGems core team works to keep our ecosystem safe. By the end of this talk, you'll have a better understanding of how to safeguard your code.
Freshworks Rethinks NoSQL for Rapid Scaling & Cost-EfficiencyScyllaDB
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Java is for many years one of the most popular programming languages, but it used to have hard times in the Serverless community. Java is known for its high cold start times and high memory footprint, comparing to other programming languages like Node.js and Python. In this talk I'll look at the general best practices and techniques we can use to decrease memory consumption, cold start times for Java Serverless development on AWS including GraalVM (Native Image) and AWS own offering SnapStart based on Firecracker microVM snapshot and restore and CRaC (Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint) runtime hooks. I'll also provide a lot of benchmarking on Lambda functions trying out various deployment package sizes, Lambda memory settings, Java compilation options and HTTP (a)synchronous clients and measure their impact on cold and warm start times.
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This talk covers:
Using MobSF for static analysis of mobile applications.
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Solving Mobile app CTF challenges.
Reverse engineering and runtime analysis of Mobile malware.
How to shift left and integrate MobSF/mobsfscan SAST and DAST in your build pipeline.
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Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation Parameters
Cloud - Citigroup Case Study
1. IBM Systems and Technology IBM Smarter Computing
Case Study
Citigroup transforms
application development
with an IBM cloud solution
Based in New York City, Citigroup Inc. is one of the world’s leading
Overview financial services companies. Citigroup has approximately 200 million
customer accounts and conducts business in more than 140 countries.
The need
Through two divisions—Citicorp and Citi Holdings—the company
Citigroup wanted to dramatically reduce offers a broad range of financial products and services for consumers,
time to market by rapidly accelerating
development cycles for the company’s corporations, governments and institutions, including consumer
more than 20,000 internal application banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities
developers, who were typically forced to brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.
wait up to 45 days for server resources to
be provisioned.
Meeting the needs of a global development
The solution
community
Citigroup built an internal cloud using
A division called Citi Technology Infrastructure (CTI) serves as the
IBM® Cloudburst™ and Tivoli® software
solutions, enabling self-service request, IT backbone for Citigroup and is responsible for more than 60,000 physi-
automated provisioning, and internal cal and virtual servers located in 14 data centers. These servers include
chargeback capabilities, while at the 8,500 development servers, serving Citigroup’s community of more than
same time boosting utilization rates
and improving operational efficiencies. 20,000 internal application developers. This massive development team
is responsible for improving customer experiences through thousands
The benefit of new development initiatives annually. Unfortunately, these developers
With the IBM solution, Citigroup slashed have historically had to wait as long as 45 days to receive a provisioned
server provisioning times from 45 days
to less than 20 minutes, speeding
server they had requested—a natural symptom of dealing with physical
development cycles and allowing the infrastructures.
company to put new features and
enhancements in the hands of customers In 2010, Citigroup began looking for a smarter approach to service
more rapidly.
delivery, including one that would automate and expedite the procedure
for requesting and provisioning development servers for writing and
testing code. Led by a core team of five Citigroup employees, the
ultimate goal was to build an internal cloud that would give developers
an automated, self-service process for submitting development server
requests, which typically number between 2,500 and 3,000 annually, and
would give CTI an automated process for provisioning those resources.
“We saw this as an evolution of IT infrastructure that goes from a dedi-
cated world where servers are built to order, to a virtual infrastructure in
which the focus is on improving the utilization rates of our infrastruc-
ture,” says Graham Hill, senior vice president at Citigroup.
2. IBM Systems and Technology IBM Smarter Computing
Case Study
Building a global development solution—in
the cloud
After a number of successful proof of concept phases using the
IBM Cloudburst Appliance, Citigroup decided to implement a private
cloud based on the Cloudburst software architecture. Instead of taking a
staged approach to hardware and software provisioning, Citigroup’s cloud
deployment offered both infrastructure as a service and software as a serv-
ice from the outset. This architecture gives Citigroup the flexibility to
optimize service delivery in a number of areas over the long term.
The solution enables image-based standard OS deployments with
predefined middleware stacks running on a bank of Intel processor-based
commodity servers. Plans are underway to extend cloud deployment to
IBM Power Systems™ and IBM zEnterprise™ System running Linux
on System z®. Once it is deployed to the zEnterprise 196, Hill says
Citigroup will be able to offer the world’s fastest private cloud.
To support service delivery processes, the team selected a suite of
IBM Tivoli automation software solutions. Tivoli Service Automation
Manager provides automation of administrative tasks, and Tivoli
Provisioning Manager manages the provisioning workflow. Tivoli Usage
and Accounting Manager enables usage-based chargeback to the relevant
department, a process that encourages timely decommissioning of servers
that are no longer required.
Accelerating time to market
Jonathan Moore, senior vice president at Citigroup, says improving
time to market for new applications has always been the primary driver
to create an internal cloud. “Time to market was one of the key
complaints that we got from the development community,” Moore says.
“It forced us to look at our process of server provisioning, and this is
when we decided to place our development in the cloud. With this
implementation, we’ve reduced provisioning time from 45 days to less
than 20 minutes, after approvals.”
As a result, developers can begin work on new initiatives without delay,
and the combination of hardware and software as a service provides
them with flexible middleware deployment scenarios.
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3. IBM Systems and Technology IBM Smarter Computing
Case Study
Slashing operational overhead through
Solution components: automation
Software
Requests for development servers are now handled through an internal
self-service portal called Citi Marketplace, where the company’s
● IBM® CloudBurst™ Appliance
● IBM Tivoli® Service Automation 250,000 employees can order everything from staplers to smart phones.
Manager These requests set off a secure, automated process for provisioning
● Tivoli Provisioning Manager resources in the cloud—a process that has dramatically improved systems
● Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager
● Tivoli Endpoint Manager administrator ratios, helping to reduce operational overhead. A systems
administrator who supported 50 servers in the physical environment can
Hardware now support more than 600 servers in the cloud.
● IBM zEnterprise™ System
To help ensure security and continuous compliance in the cloud,
Citigroup relies on Tivoli Endpoint Manager. Built on BigFix® technol-
ogy, Tivoli Endpoint Manager provides unified, real-time visibility and
enforcement for software patches by installing an intelligent agent on
each endpoint. “The biggest operational overhead is systems administra-
tion time,” explains Hill. “Tools like Tivoli Endpoint Manager automate
functions that otherwise take up a considerable amount of time.”
Transforming IT for enhanced customer
experiences
The resulting transformation has been significant—not to mention very
popular. Citigroup has provisioned more than 550 virtual machines in
the cloud so far, and demand for the new service continues to grow. For
example, Citigroup is now taking full advantage of the cloud development
environment to support a major development project for the company’s
retail banking experience.
“The doors have just been opened,” says Jason Bisson, a vice president
at Citigroup. “Certainly people who are provisioning virtual machines or
requesting virtual machines for development are moving to this as soon as
they know it’s available. It’s just a North American initiative right now,
but we’ve got people around the world knocking on the door.”
The reason for this overwhelming popularity is simple. Says Hill, “It lets
our developers launch new features and enhancements more rapidly,
which improves our customer experience in a shorter timeframe. You
want developers coding as soon as possible, not waiting for servers. With
our development cloud, when a new project comes along, we’re ready.”
For more information
To learn more about smarter computing from IBM and how we can
help you integrate, automate, protect and transform your IT, contact
your IBM representative or IBM Business Partner, or visit
ibm.com/smartercomputing
For more information about Citigroup, visit: www.citigroup.com
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