IBM Power Systems
To draw insights and make better decisions, businesses rely on the secure, flexible and open platform of IBM Power Systems. Built with the first processor designed for big data workloads, the design of Power Systems combines the computing power, memory bandwidth and I/O in ways that are easier to consume and manage, building on strong resiliency, availability and security.
Businesses today are transforming and seeking new ways to deliver value from IT. This is placing new demands on enterprise IT infrastructure. Cloud, big data, analytics, mobile solutions, and social business aren’t simply remaking computing, they are remaking business and they are helping to revolutionize the way that IT is created and consumed. This new model represents an opportunity for organizations to reshape the value they deliver, but cost, complexity and risk are standing in the way. So how can companies capitalize on this opportunity?
We believe there’s an answer—IBM® Power Systems™—the IT platform with the first processor designed for big data. Its open architecture offers efficiency and superior cloud economics, and is continuously infused with innovation from its open server ecosystem. Power servers offer an ideal architecture to deliver superior security and a stronger customer experience against your competition. With an integrated set of resources that are always available2 and comprehensive data management capabilities, Power servers can align your technology to your business demands, uncover new value in your data to drive innovation, and securely and efficiently deliver business services to help reduce costs.
Designed for the demands of big data and analytics
Businesses are amassing a wealth of data and Power Systems, built with innovation to support today’s data demands, can store it, secure it and, most importantly, extract actionable insight from it. Power Systems are designed for big data. From operational business intelligence and data warehouses to predictive analytics and cognitive Watson solutions, Power servers are optimized for the compute intensive performance demands of database and analytics applications and can flexibly scale to support the demands of rapidly growing data. Power Systems’ open, data-centric design combines computing power, big memory, memory bandwidth, and broad data pathways to process and move data through applications in ways that are easier to consume and manage.
And to resolve the need for security and privacy that comes with highly networked, data-intensive applications, Power offers built-in security competitors can’t match. Real-time data encryption, sophisticated application isolation, and compliance alerts and reporting ensure that data is safe, company and industry compliance standards are met, and costs are minimized.
IBM Power Systems Highlights:
- Built for your most complex, mission-critical business priorities
- Bring insights to the point of impact faster through a data-centric design
- Process big data in memory with up to 16 terabyte (TB) memory
- Improve IT economics and efficiently deliver business services with scalable, open private and hybrid cloud
- Minimize risk with secure, encrypted delivery of data and services on a proven, reliable platform
- Manage fluctuating business demands with dynamic, private cloud capacity on demand
- Simplify management of Linux applications using new, faster Power integrated facility for Linux (IFL)
