Many customers have deployed end-to-end workloads that span their enterprise or midsize organization. Multitier computing has taken hold, leveraging components of end-to-end workloads that span the computing systems of many departments and divisions in large enterprises and midsize businesses. Although the applications have "grown up" on separate servers — large and small — the overall business would benefit if they could be brought closer together.
An architacture for modular datacenterJunaid Kabir
This document proposes a new architecture for modular data centers using standard shipping containers. It argues that fully populating shipping containers with thousands of commodity servers and delivering them as ready-to-run modules could significantly reduce data center costs through lower acquisition, deployment, and management costs compared to individual servers. This approach aims to address challenges from the rapid growth of internet services relying on large numbers of inexpensive, commodity servers in data centers.
This document summarizes the findings of an IDC study on large enterprises that deployed IBM Power Systems servers to consolidate workloads. The study found that these organizations achieved significant cost savings and efficiency gains through consolidation. Key results included reducing system downtime by 60-94%, lowering IT staff maintenance time by up to 50%, and saving over $235,000 annually per 1,000 users on average. Consolidating workloads onto these highly virtualized servers also reduced power and cooling costs substantially. The document concludes that these benefits will be amplified by new Power7-based servers that provide faster performance and greater energy efficiency.
An Architecture for Modular Data Centersguest640c7d
This document proposes a new architecture for modular data centers using standard shipping containers. The key points are:
1) Shipping containers can house thousands of commodity server components and be delivered as fully operational modules, eliminating the need for on-site assembly and maintenance.
2) These container modules reduce costs associated with component shipping, installation, power/cooling infrastructure, and hardware administration over the lifetime of the systems.
3) The modular approach provides flexibility to rapidly deploy new capacity globally and to later relocate data centers cost-effectively if needed.
This document discusses how private cloud deployments are addressing growing storage problems through the use of scale-out network attached storage solutions like IBM's SONAS. It outlines key challenges organizations face with exponential data growth and the need for scalability, efficiency, disaster recovery and information governance. Scale-out file-based storage is presented as a way to meet these challenges by providing flexible scalability of performance and capacity independent of each other across multiple servers.
White Paper: The Benefits of An Outsourced IT InfrastructureAsaca
This white paper will explore the benets of a hosted IT infrastructure
in the context of several key business topics including disaster recovery,
cost management and scalability .
IBM zEnterprise System and IBM zEnterprise Unified Resource Manager deliver the gold standard of enterprise computing and extends mainframe-like governance and qualities of service to special purpose workload optimizers and general purpose IBM POWER7 and System x Application Server Blades
IBM unveils the new zEnterprise system, the most powerful and energy efficient mainframe ever. It extends mainframe qualities like governance and manageability to select Power and System x servers. This allows workloads on mainframe, Power, and System x servers to share resources and be managed as a single system. It can drive lower costs and reduce complexity for customers managing diverse technologies in their data centers.
The document summarizes the IBM zEnterprise EC12 (zEC12) mainframe system. It has up to 50% more capacity than previous models and features new 5.5GHz processors. It can manage workloads across multiple platforms through its hybrid computing design. The zEC12 supports large-scale consolidation and growth through unprecedented performance and scale. It utilizes specialty engines like zIIPs and zAAPs to optimize workloads and lower costs. The zEC12 is designed to handle data-intensive workloads and analytics through solutions like DB2 and the IBM Smart Analytics System.
An architacture for modular datacenterJunaid Kabir
This document proposes a new architecture for modular data centers using standard shipping containers. It argues that fully populating shipping containers with thousands of commodity servers and delivering them as ready-to-run modules could significantly reduce data center costs through lower acquisition, deployment, and management costs compared to individual servers. This approach aims to address challenges from the rapid growth of internet services relying on large numbers of inexpensive, commodity servers in data centers.
This document summarizes the findings of an IDC study on large enterprises that deployed IBM Power Systems servers to consolidate workloads. The study found that these organizations achieved significant cost savings and efficiency gains through consolidation. Key results included reducing system downtime by 60-94%, lowering IT staff maintenance time by up to 50%, and saving over $235,000 annually per 1,000 users on average. Consolidating workloads onto these highly virtualized servers also reduced power and cooling costs substantially. The document concludes that these benefits will be amplified by new Power7-based servers that provide faster performance and greater energy efficiency.
An Architecture for Modular Data Centersguest640c7d
This document proposes a new architecture for modular data centers using standard shipping containers. The key points are:
1) Shipping containers can house thousands of commodity server components and be delivered as fully operational modules, eliminating the need for on-site assembly and maintenance.
2) These container modules reduce costs associated with component shipping, installation, power/cooling infrastructure, and hardware administration over the lifetime of the systems.
3) The modular approach provides flexibility to rapidly deploy new capacity globally and to later relocate data centers cost-effectively if needed.
This document discusses how private cloud deployments are addressing growing storage problems through the use of scale-out network attached storage solutions like IBM's SONAS. It outlines key challenges organizations face with exponential data growth and the need for scalability, efficiency, disaster recovery and information governance. Scale-out file-based storage is presented as a way to meet these challenges by providing flexible scalability of performance and capacity independent of each other across multiple servers.
White Paper: The Benefits of An Outsourced IT InfrastructureAsaca
This white paper will explore the benets of a hosted IT infrastructure
in the context of several key business topics including disaster recovery,
cost management and scalability .
IBM zEnterprise System and IBM zEnterprise Unified Resource Manager deliver the gold standard of enterprise computing and extends mainframe-like governance and qualities of service to special purpose workload optimizers and general purpose IBM POWER7 and System x Application Server Blades
IBM unveils the new zEnterprise system, the most powerful and energy efficient mainframe ever. It extends mainframe qualities like governance and manageability to select Power and System x servers. This allows workloads on mainframe, Power, and System x servers to share resources and be managed as a single system. It can drive lower costs and reduce complexity for customers managing diverse technologies in their data centers.
The document summarizes the IBM zEnterprise EC12 (zEC12) mainframe system. It has up to 50% more capacity than previous models and features new 5.5GHz processors. It can manage workloads across multiple platforms through its hybrid computing design. The zEC12 supports large-scale consolidation and growth through unprecedented performance and scale. It utilizes specialty engines like zIIPs and zAAPs to optimize workloads and lower costs. The zEC12 is designed to handle data-intensive workloads and analytics through solutions like DB2 and the IBM Smart Analytics System.
The IBM zEnterprise platform delivers an integrated approach that reaches across platforms to provide intelligent support on a single system for business applications such as enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, and industry-specific core applications
AGILE CLOUD: NAVIGATING THE TRANSITION TO MANAGE IT dinCloud Inc.
The debate about IT is dominated by a
narrow focus on near-term objectives: shrill cries
claim that the business will stop (or fail) if a
feature isn’t added to the ecommerce site, if the
mobility platform isn’t improved, if the network
and compute back end aren’t upgraded, if
storage and database performance isn’t
accelerated. Often, these changes are truly
essential, and demand immediate attention.
However, midmarket firms can’t assemble a
meaningful strategy from point responses to
near-term issues. Increasingly, midmarket
enterprises are finding that continued
operational success requires an “agile-cloud”
The document provides an overview of IBM's Big Data platform vision. The platform addresses big data use cases involving high volume, velocity and variety of data. It integrates with existing data warehouse and master data management systems. The platform handles different data types and formats, provides real-time and batch analytics, and has tools to make it easy for developers and users to work with. It is designed with enterprise-grade security, scalability and failure tolerance. The platform allows organizations to analyze big data from various sources to gain insights.
Track 1, session 6, accelerating your cloud journey with advanced services ab...EMC Forum India
The document discusses EMC's cloud consulting services which help organizations accelerate their cloud journey. It provides an overview of EMC's cloud strategy planning and roadmap development services, including private cloud strategy and reference architecture design. The services also include developing cloud service models and catalogs, and cloud implementation services to establish processes and runbooks for managing the cloud service lifecycle. Benefits highlighted are unlocking information value through virtualization and cloud, improving efficiencies while managing costs, and ensuring security, compliance and performance of critical information assets in the cloud.
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.
Five reasons to make the move to converged infrastructureDellLatam
This document discusses the benefits of adopting a converged infrastructure in the data center. It provides 5 reasons to make the move: 1) Growing disparity between business demands and IT resources. 2) Need for IT to be more agile when provisioning services. 3) Risk of business disintermediating IT by using public clouds. 4) Convergence simplifies management and changes by consolidating infrastructure components. 5) Convergence complements virtualization with automation that eliminates manual processes and waste.
- Ramco Systems presents their OnDemand ERP solution delivered using a Software as a Service (SaaS) model, allowing customers to access ERP applications over the internet.
- The solution offers benefits like lower costs, faster implementation, easy upgrades, and flexibility compared to on-premise ERP systems.
- Ramco will implement the OnDemand ERP for customers using a template-driven approach with implementation expected within 2 weeks.
This document discusses eight key challenges to effective infrastructure management: 1) detecting and handling incidents and problems, 2) handling changes with minimal impact on availability, 3) preventing security problems, 4) using emerging technologies effectively, 5) maintaining software and firmware, 6) having indicators of status and trends, 7) having the right tools, and 8) deploying infrastructure rapidly. It provides tactics to address each challenge, with the goals of improving efficiency, reducing costs, and increasing business value through better infrastructure management. Outsourcing and managed services are presented as strategic options.
Exploring a Cloud Based Approach to IT InfrastructureReadWrite
A key part of cloud-based information technology is the ability to deliver benefits to the business and to the overall technology infrastructure for the organization.
This briefing explores the ways to build a cloud-based IT infrastructure that allows for a dynamic environment that supports business needs.
Is Cloud Computing Right For You Wp101305Erik Ginalick
1. The document discusses whether cloud computing is right for businesses. It examines infrastructure as a service (IaaS), which allows businesses to access computing resources like servers and storage over the internet. IaaS provides benefits like reduced costs, increased flexibility and scalability, and faster deployment of applications and services.
2. While IaaS provides advantages, not every application is suited to the cloud. Businesses must evaluate each application to determine if factors like security, performance, and data sensitivity are compatible with cloud sourcing. They must also choose an IaaS provider that meets their specific needs in terms of services, expertise, and security capabilities.
3. In conclusion, IaaS can simplify IT infrastructure
The document discusses IBM's XIV storage system as a solution for tier 1 enterprise applications. It provides an overview of the challenges facing tier 1 storage, including supporting mixed virtualized workloads, high performance I/O, simplicity, scalability, and evolving to private cloud. The IBM XIV is designed to address these challenges through its architecture, performance, ease of use, scalability, and data efficiency. Case studies show how large financial, wholesale, and consumer firms have deployed the XIV successfully for mission critical applications. The future outlook is that IBM is well positioned but will face challenges from competitors improving their scale-out block storage solutions.
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.
This white paper discusses Sun Microsystems' new virtualized network express module and blade server solution. It addresses ongoing customer needs to reduce datacenter costs related to power, cooling, management complexity and staffing. The solution aims to improve efficiency and lower costs by streamlining management, reducing cabling, improving energy efficiency, and providing a single-pane-of-glass management view.
Big Data Whitepaper - Streams and Big Insights Integration PatternsMauricio Godoy
This document discusses designing integrated applications across IBM InfoSphere Streams and IBM InfoSphere BigInsights to address challenges posed by big data. It describes three main application scenarios for the integration: 1) scalable data ingest from Streams to BigInsights, 2) using historical context from BigInsights to bootstrap and enrich real-time analytics on Streams, and 3) generating adaptive analytics models on BigInsights to analyze incoming data on Streams and updating models based on real-time observations.
Learn about IBM PureFlex System: The Future of Data center Management.The ‘Expert Integrated System’ delivers a combination of hardware, software and built-in expertise that makes implementing and applying the power of computing simpler, easier, faster and more effective than ever before.For more information, visit http://ibm.co/J7Zb1v.
This document profiles 8 international interns who participated in the EDISON School project from April 22nd to June 3rd 2013. It provides the interns' names, countries of origin, and links to short video profiles of each intern from Brazil, Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, China, Canada, Georgia, and India.
The IBM zEnterprise platform delivers an integrated approach that reaches across platforms to provide intelligent support on a single system for business applications such as enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, and industry-specific core applications
AGILE CLOUD: NAVIGATING THE TRANSITION TO MANAGE IT dinCloud Inc.
The debate about IT is dominated by a
narrow focus on near-term objectives: shrill cries
claim that the business will stop (or fail) if a
feature isn’t added to the ecommerce site, if the
mobility platform isn’t improved, if the network
and compute back end aren’t upgraded, if
storage and database performance isn’t
accelerated. Often, these changes are truly
essential, and demand immediate attention.
However, midmarket firms can’t assemble a
meaningful strategy from point responses to
near-term issues. Increasingly, midmarket
enterprises are finding that continued
operational success requires an “agile-cloud”
The document provides an overview of IBM's Big Data platform vision. The platform addresses big data use cases involving high volume, velocity and variety of data. It integrates with existing data warehouse and master data management systems. The platform handles different data types and formats, provides real-time and batch analytics, and has tools to make it easy for developers and users to work with. It is designed with enterprise-grade security, scalability and failure tolerance. The platform allows organizations to analyze big data from various sources to gain insights.
Track 1, session 6, accelerating your cloud journey with advanced services ab...EMC Forum India
The document discusses EMC's cloud consulting services which help organizations accelerate their cloud journey. It provides an overview of EMC's cloud strategy planning and roadmap development services, including private cloud strategy and reference architecture design. The services also include developing cloud service models and catalogs, and cloud implementation services to establish processes and runbooks for managing the cloud service lifecycle. Benefits highlighted are unlocking information value through virtualization and cloud, improving efficiencies while managing costs, and ensuring security, compliance and performance of critical information assets in the cloud.
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.
Five reasons to make the move to converged infrastructureDellLatam
This document discusses the benefits of adopting a converged infrastructure in the data center. It provides 5 reasons to make the move: 1) Growing disparity between business demands and IT resources. 2) Need for IT to be more agile when provisioning services. 3) Risk of business disintermediating IT by using public clouds. 4) Convergence simplifies management and changes by consolidating infrastructure components. 5) Convergence complements virtualization with automation that eliminates manual processes and waste.
- Ramco Systems presents their OnDemand ERP solution delivered using a Software as a Service (SaaS) model, allowing customers to access ERP applications over the internet.
- The solution offers benefits like lower costs, faster implementation, easy upgrades, and flexibility compared to on-premise ERP systems.
- Ramco will implement the OnDemand ERP for customers using a template-driven approach with implementation expected within 2 weeks.
This document discusses eight key challenges to effective infrastructure management: 1) detecting and handling incidents and problems, 2) handling changes with minimal impact on availability, 3) preventing security problems, 4) using emerging technologies effectively, 5) maintaining software and firmware, 6) having indicators of status and trends, 7) having the right tools, and 8) deploying infrastructure rapidly. It provides tactics to address each challenge, with the goals of improving efficiency, reducing costs, and increasing business value through better infrastructure management. Outsourcing and managed services are presented as strategic options.
Exploring a Cloud Based Approach to IT InfrastructureReadWrite
A key part of cloud-based information technology is the ability to deliver benefits to the business and to the overall technology infrastructure for the organization.
This briefing explores the ways to build a cloud-based IT infrastructure that allows for a dynamic environment that supports business needs.
Is Cloud Computing Right For You Wp101305Erik Ginalick
1. The document discusses whether cloud computing is right for businesses. It examines infrastructure as a service (IaaS), which allows businesses to access computing resources like servers and storage over the internet. IaaS provides benefits like reduced costs, increased flexibility and scalability, and faster deployment of applications and services.
2. While IaaS provides advantages, not every application is suited to the cloud. Businesses must evaluate each application to determine if factors like security, performance, and data sensitivity are compatible with cloud sourcing. They must also choose an IaaS provider that meets their specific needs in terms of services, expertise, and security capabilities.
3. In conclusion, IaaS can simplify IT infrastructure
The document discusses IBM's XIV storage system as a solution for tier 1 enterprise applications. It provides an overview of the challenges facing tier 1 storage, including supporting mixed virtualized workloads, high performance I/O, simplicity, scalability, and evolving to private cloud. The IBM XIV is designed to address these challenges through its architecture, performance, ease of use, scalability, and data efficiency. Case studies show how large financial, wholesale, and consumer firms have deployed the XIV successfully for mission critical applications. The future outlook is that IBM is well positioned but will face challenges from competitors improving their scale-out block storage solutions.
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.
This white paper discusses Sun Microsystems' new virtualized network express module and blade server solution. It addresses ongoing customer needs to reduce datacenter costs related to power, cooling, management complexity and staffing. The solution aims to improve efficiency and lower costs by streamlining management, reducing cabling, improving energy efficiency, and providing a single-pane-of-glass management view.
Big Data Whitepaper - Streams and Big Insights Integration PatternsMauricio Godoy
This document discusses designing integrated applications across IBM InfoSphere Streams and IBM InfoSphere BigInsights to address challenges posed by big data. It describes three main application scenarios for the integration: 1) scalable data ingest from Streams to BigInsights, 2) using historical context from BigInsights to bootstrap and enrich real-time analytics on Streams, and 3) generating adaptive analytics models on BigInsights to analyze incoming data on Streams and updating models based on real-time observations.
Learn about IBM PureFlex System: The Future of Data center Management.The ‘Expert Integrated System’ delivers a combination of hardware, software and built-in expertise that makes implementing and applying the power of computing simpler, easier, faster and more effective than ever before.For more information, visit http://ibm.co/J7Zb1v.
This document profiles 8 international interns who participated in the EDISON School project from April 22nd to June 3rd 2013. It provides the interns' names, countries of origin, and links to short video profiles of each intern from Brazil, Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, China, Canada, Georgia, and India.
Panoramica investigación en optimización y automatización de procesos de la U...InfoAndina CONDESAN
El documento presenta información sobre la investigación en optimización y automatización de procesos en la Universidad de Piura y la región de Piura. Se discuten temas como el desarrollo de software SCADA, automatización de procesos usando lógica difusa, e iniciativas del gobierno regional de Piura para promover la ciencia, tecnología e innovación.
The 1900 Olympic Games were held in Paris, France from May 14 to October 28 as part of the Paris World's Fair. Over 1,200 male athletes and 19 female athletes from 26 countries competed in 17 sports over 5 months, with events rarely referred to as "Olympic". American Alvin Kraenzlein won gold in four individual track and field events. Charlotte Cooper of Great Britain became the first female Olympic champion. Medals were not awarded consistently, with some events giving cups or trophies instead of medals.
This document is a hotel/venue inspection checklist that rates various aspects of a property on scales from 1 to 10. It examines information about the property such as ratings, renovations, ADA compliance, and location. It also evaluates areas like the lobby, restaurants, fitness facilities, meeting spaces, guest rooms, and suites. Metrics include décor, cleanliness, conditions, amenities, and more. The goal is to thoroughly inspect and document the quality and offerings of the hotel/venue.
Bahía Bustamante es una reserva natural ubicada en la provincia de Chubut, Argentina. Fue fundada en 1953 y tiene una población de 40 habitantes. La reserva alberga una gran diversidad de fauna, incluyendo 4000 lobos marinos, más de 50 mil pingüinos y 22 especies de aves. Ofrece varias actividades como cabalgatas, navegación y observación de la vida silvestre. Forma parte del Parque Interjurisdiccional Marino Costero Patagonia Austral, que protege 132,116 hectáreas con una rica biodiversidad mar
The data center impact of cloud, analytics, mobile, social and security rlw03...Diego Alberto Tamayo
Introduction
The consumerization of IT continues to have a major impact
on business. Technology forces have emerged that are
challenging organizations’ ability to respond. Cloud computing,
mobility, social business, big data and analytics and IT security
technologies are evolving very rapidly, putting an organization’s
IT agility, speed and resilience to the test. As these technologies
mature and converge, they are demanding a total reexamination
of the underlying enterprise infrastructure: its strategy and
design, its operation and its management framework.
IDC: Selecting the Optimal Path to Private CloudEMC
The document discusses three approaches to building a private cloud infrastructure: integrated infrastructure systems, reference architectures, and building your own systems. It finds that integrated infrastructure systems reduce overall costs by 55% and time to deployment by 65% compared to traditional approaches. Reference architectures also provide advantages in reducing costs by 25% and deployment time by 25%. Both approaches deliver significant benefits in efficiency and agility over building systems independently.
The document discusses how organizations should optimize their workloads by analyzing the specific requirements of each workload and deploying targeted solutions, rather than taking a one-size-fits-all approach. It outlines four common workload types - transaction processing, business applications, analytics, and web/collaboration - and how they have different resource needs. IBM promotes its Dynamic Infrastructure approach which tailors solutions from its hardware, software, and services to optimize workloads. Analyzing workload attributes drives the design of integrated heterogeneous systems focused on business goals.
Learn about Success stories and recommendations from IBM clients and find out how organizations are taking bold, new approaches to dramatically improve economics and innovation through IT efficiency.
For more information on IBM System z, visit http://ibm.co/PNo9Cb.
Visit the official Scribd Channel of IBM India Smarter Computing at http://bit.ly/VwO86R to get access to more documents.
"Enterprise applications support the daily operations of a business, which means that
they are vital to its ability to generate revenue and profit growth — and to account for
it. Whether those applications support a supply chain, general accounting, personnel
management, or customer relationship management, they must be available to end
users and must be accessible enough to create ""snapshots"" of the business on a
daily, hourly, or, in some cases, near-real-time basis."
AMD Putting Server Virtualization to WorkJames Price
E
nterprises have been using virtualization technology on mainframes and RISC-based systems
for years to enable better utilization of hardware resources. As x86 servers have become a mainstay
in the enterprise, more companies are exploring virtualization with these servers to enable more productive, flexible, and scalable datacenters while reducing costs and boosting data availability. Computing technologies from AMD are providing the foundation for today’s—and tomorrow’s—enterprise virtualization solutions.
The document discusses the benefits of converged systems over traditional siloed IT infrastructures. It outlines key challenges with complexity in today's IT environments and how converged systems provide advantages like reduced costs, faster deployment times, and improved performance and availability. The summary highlights that Hitachi Data Systems provides converged infrastructure solutions called Unified Compute Platforms that integrate servers, storage, networking and software to optimize support for mission-critical applications.
IBM differentiates itself in cloud computing and data centers by optimizing workloads, or types of computing tasks, to specific hardware and software configurations. This improves efficiency and allows organizations to scale IT resources to match their needs. Examples include matching analytics workloads to high performance systems, and moving development/testing workloads to the cloud to reduce costs and speed up processes. Workload optimization is important for both traditional data centers and cloud computing, and allows clients like banks and schools to improve services while reducing IT expenses.
- 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.
Cloud Technology and Virtualization
"Project Deliverable 4: Cloud Technology and Virtualization"
Christopher Nevels
Dr. Darcel Ford
CIS 590
11-24-13
Cloud Technology and Virtualization
There are many reasons companies and organizations are investing in server virtualization. Some of the reasons are financially motivated, while others address technical concerns. Server virtualization conserves space through consolidation. It's common practice to dedicate each server to a single application. If several applications only use a small amount of processing power, the network administrator can consolidate several machines into one server running multiple virtual environments. For companies that have hundreds or thousands of servers, the need for physical space can decrease significantly. Server virtualization provides a way for companies to practice redundancy without purchasing additional hardware. Redundancy refers to running the same application on multiple servers. It's a safety measure -- if a server fails for any reason, another server running the same application can take its place. This minimizes any interruption in service. It wouldn't make sense to build two virtual servers performing the same application on the same physical server. If the physical server were to crash, both virtual servers would also fail. In most cases, network administrators will create redundant virtual servers on different physical machines. Virtual servers offer programmers isolated, independent systems in which they can test new applications or operating systems. Rather than buying a dedicated physical machine, the network administrator can create a virtual server on an existing machine. Because each virtual server is independent in relation to all the other servers, programmers can run software without worrying about affecting other applications (Strickland 2013).
Cloud computing is ideal for small companies, as it’s cost-effective, saves time and energy, and it allows for a high level of customization. According to Forbes, a 2009 study found that cloud computing could save up to 67% of the lifecycle cost for server deployment on a large scale. Another study found that using cloud solutions generally results in higher investment returns (when compared to an on-site system). There are further cost saving benefits, such as less need for expensive hardware and software, and no need for physical networks or IT maintenance. Also, cloud systems are usually ‘pay-as-you-go’, so you only pay for what you use. There are no upfront investments, and IT requirements can be easily budgeted for. Also, various cloud services can either be added or scaled back, depending on where your business is, and how much growth is taking place. The cloud is also highly customizable: you can select what platform you want, which payroll software to use, and what email marketing tools you require – all from different vendors, and all individually configurable (K2 SEO 2013).
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Learn about IBM zEnterprise Strategy for the Private Cloud.The white paper defines the strategy for implementing the zEnterprise System as an integrated, heterogeneous, and virtualized infrastructure, ideal for supporting Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in cloud computing deployments.To know more about System z, visit http://ibm.co/PNo9Cb.
This document discusses how hyperscale infrastructure approaches can enable enterprises to meet increasing future IT capacity needs with lower costs than traditional IT approaches. It describes how leading cloud providers have developed hyperscale computing models internally to dramatically improve efficiency and performance. The document proposes that operators and enterprises can adopt similar hyperscale infrastructure using disaggregated hardware architectures, which standardize components, abstract complexity, automate processes, and allow perpetual refresh of parts rather than entire systems. This would enable lower total cost of ownership through improvements like high utilization rates, reduced energy consumption, and eliminating forced hardware replacement cycles.
International Journal of Modern Engineering Research (IJMER) is Peer reviewed, online Journal. It serves as an international archival forum of scholarly research related to engineering and science education.
This document provides a sector roadmap for cloud analytic databases in 2017. It discusses key topics such as usage scenarios, disruption vectors, and an analysis of companies in the sector. Some main points:
- Cloud databases can now be considered the default option for most selections in 2017 due to economics and functionality.
- Several newer cloud-native offerings have been able to leapfrog more established databases through tight integration of cloud features like elasticity and separation of compute and storage.
- While traditional database functionality is still required, cloud dynamics are causing needs for capabilities like robust SQL support, diverse data support, and dynamic environment adaptation.
- Vendor solutions are evaluated on disruption vectors including SQL support, optimization, elasticity, environment
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.
Making Multicloud Application Integration More EfficientCognizant
With the dramatic, ever-growing increase of companies migrating applications and data to public and private clouds, the integration of cloud and on-premises applications is both absolutely essential and extremely complex. We offer a brief roadmap to establishing a "cloud console" for integrating multicloud environments.
Ar Accelerating Converged Infrastructure With FlexpodMichael Hudak
IDC investigates the transformation of IT delivery in the datacenter and the emerging role of pretested solutions that focus on unified, shared infrastructure. The paper focuses on the advent of converged infrastructure solutions that simplify the deployment and management of virtualized environments spanning server, storage, and networking components. The paper then takes a closer look at the FlexPod datacenter solution offered by NetApp and Cisco, with a focus on the VMware vSphere design configuration. IDC examines the importance of professional services to delivering the solution and the key role of a collaborative support model aimed at streamlining the support process for customers and channel partners.
Businesses face increasing pressure to adapt quickly to changes while maintaining efficiency. Data protection and retention practices need to evolve to keep pace. Traditional approaches are unable to meet new demands for 24/7 availability, increased data volumes, and comprehensive retention policies. To better support the business, IT must provide automated, integrated solutions for data protection and retention that deliver both agility and efficiency.
IBM Offers ISVs a Fast Track for Virtual Appliance Deployment on New IBM Pure...benzfire
This document discusses IBM's program to help independent software vendors (ISVs) create virtual appliance versions of their software that are optimized to run on IBM's PureSystems converged infrastructure platforms. The program provides tools to help ISVs package their software along with required operating systems and middleware into preconfigured virtual appliances. This allows applications to be deployed much more quickly and easily on PureSystems, improving the customer experience. The document profiles three ISVs that have participated in the program and realized benefits like faster deployment times, reduced support costs, and improved application performance.
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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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IBM zEnterprise System Brings Hybrid Computing Capabilities to Midsize Organizations
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IBM zEnterprise System Brings Hybrid Computing
Capabilities to Midsize Organizations
Sponsored by: IBM
Jean S. Bozman Tim Grieser
July 2011
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
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Many customers have deployed end-to-end workloads that span their enterprise or
midsize organization. Multitier computing has taken hold, leveraging components of
end-to-end workloads that span the computing systems of many departments and
divisions in large enterprises and midsize businesses. Although the applications have
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"grown up" on separate servers — large and small — the overall business would
benefit if they could be brought closer together.
Technical change offers a new way to support business processes — and to improve
end-to-end performance of workloads — leveraging faster network links, close-in
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memory, and workload management to arrive at business answers faster, and more
accurately, than is currently possible. Business decisions could be made more quickly,
responding to changing market conditions, if analytics could find the patterns in the data
more quickly. Faster processing would also allow businesses to identify fraudulent credit
card activity sooner — and to take action on it immediately. And, if the data warehouses
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could be searched more quickly and effectively, then the answers could be returned to
the line-of-business executives in minutes rather than hours.
But the promise of end-to-end workloads often depends on one-off, customized
system integration, which can be an expensive and time-consuming task. It could
take months, or years, to design, build, and deploy a new, optimized solution for
cross-tier computing. That's why, in these challenging economic times, the industry is
seeing a new focus on efficiency and results associated with IT and data processing.
Recognizing this trend, IBM introduced its hybrid computing solution in July 2010,
combining IBM zEnterprise mainframe workloads (e.g., applications, databases)
with workloads running on blade servers within a blade chassis — and attached through
optimized, high-speed network links. With the July 12, 2011, announcement, IBM is
pricing the z114 from $75,000, thus reducing the entry price of the System z server line by
25% and memory prices by up to 75%. The new product offering and the new price points
are being offered with the aim of extending this hybrid solution to midsize businesses,
departments and divisions of large enterprises, government agencies, and universities.
This paper focuses on the IBM z114 cross-tier solution, which brings IBM AIX Unix
and Linux workloads into the mix, with Microsoft Windows support to follow in the
future. This blended approach to computing allows workloads running on any of those
operating systems to communicate more quickly and effectively with the System z,
producing business benefits from the orchestration, or coordination, of management
for all of the workloads running across all of the linked platforms.