IBM Systems
Sašo Bezek, IBM Slovenija
STG Sales Specialist
Solution Representative
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Technology is the leading force for impacting
business
Factors impacting organizations:
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1. Technology factors
2. People skills
3. Market factors
4. Macro-economic factors
5. Regulatory concerns
6. Globalization
Source: IBM CEO Study 2012
71% of CEOs identify technology as the most
important external force impacting their organizations*
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The Information Explosion is Creating a Storage
Efficiency Challenge
Zettabytes
Exabytes
Petabytes
 Storage requirements growing 20-40% per year
 Information doubling every 18-24 months
 Storage budgets up 1%-5% in 2012
Terabytes
Gigabytes
The information explosion
meets budget reality
Megabytes
Kilobytes
2000
2005
2010
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2015
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Storage Efficiency is Essential for Cloud
Deployment
Cloud Ready
Optimize
Automate
Virtualize
Improve user service
levels while lowering cost
Scale capacity and performance on
demand
Dynamically provision and manage the virtualized
environment
Improve utilization and flexibility of storage resources
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IBM Disk Portfolio 2013
Optimized for ‘open systems’
Optimized for z/OS and IBM i
Block
Enterprise
File
DS8000
XIV
SONAS
For clients requiring:
 Advanced disaster recovery with
3-way mirroring and System z
GDPS support
 Continuous availability, no
downtime for upgrades
 Best-in-class response time for
OLTP or transaction workloads,
flash optimization
 Single system capacity scalable
to the PB range
For clients requiring:
 Advanced management,
replication, and homogenous
virtualization
 Worry-free performance with
unique data distribution
 High utilization with efficient thin
provisioning and reclamation
 Autonomic self-healing grid
architecture
 Breakthrough ease of use and
management
 Scale-out systems with
consolidated management
For clients requiring:
 Massive I/O, backup, or restores
 Consolidation, or scale large
numbers of clusters
N series
For clients requiring:
 NAS storage
 Simple two-site high availability
Storwize V7000 Unified
Midrange
Entry
Storage Efficiency
Essentials
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For clients requiring:
 Rack-mounted midrange storage with sophisticated software functions
 Breakthrough ease of use and management
 Unified block and file storage
 Non-disruptive migration from, or virtualization of, existing disk
 Ability to start small and pay as you grow for performance or capacity
V3700, DS3500
For clients requiring:
 SMBs or branch office locations; cost sensitive; limited functions
SVC, Easy Tier, ProtecTIER, Information Archive, Real-time Compression Appliances
For clients requiring optimization of storage costs:
 Storage technologies that add function, performance, ease of use, or efficiency to new or existing storage
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System x, BladeCenter™ and Flex System Server Portfolio
1 & 2 Socket (sample listing)
4 Socket
Enterprise Servers
Suited for heavy vertical
workloads, virtualization, high
performance and legacy
replacement
x3690 X5
Blade Servers
Optimized for large consolidation
environments, server
infrastructure replacement and
remote environments
x3850 X5
HX5 – 2S
HS23
HX5 - 4S
x240 & x220
BladeCenter
Flex System
x440
Rack Servers
Great for small to mid-range
business segmented workloads
and “fit” for purpose
applications.
x3550 M4
x3650 M4
x3750 M4
x3630 M4
dx360 M4
Tower Servers
Smaller businesses, smaller
remote environments and
meeting standalone
requirements.
6
x3100 M4
x3300 M4
x3500 M4
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POWER7 Portfolio
Power 795
POWER7+
5 Feb POWER7+
Announcement
780
POWER7+
770
POWER7+
750 / 760
POWER7+
710/730
POWER7+
720/740
Power
775
IBM PureFlex
System
PS Blades
PowerLinux
7R1 / 7R2
p460
Power
755
p260+
p24L
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Power Processor Technology Roadmap
POWER9
POWER8
POWER5/5+
130/90 nm
Dual Core
Enhanced Scaling
SMT
Distributed Switch +
Core Parallelism +
FP Performance +
Memory Bandwidth +
Virtualization
2004
8
POWER6/6+
65/65 nm
Dual Core
High Frequencies
Virtualization +
Memory Subsystem +
Altivec
Instruction Retry
Dynamic Energy Mgmt
SMT +
Protection Keys
2007
POWER7/7+
45/32 nm
More Cores
SMT+++
Reliability ++
FPGA Support
Transactional Memory
Eight Cores
On-Chip eDRAM
Power-Optimized Cores
Memory Subsystem ++
SMT++
Reliability +
VSM & VSX
Protection Keys+
2010
Future
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