Linux and Open Source Software:
Are You Prepared?
9th Conference on IT & Telecom in the Baltic Sea
& CEE Region. April 6th-9th, 2005. Riga, Latvia.
Carol Stafford
IBM Vice President
Worldwide Linux
Today’s IT Need - On Demand Business
An enterprise whose business processes —
integrated end-to-end across the company and with
key partners, suppliers and customers — can respond
with flexibility and speed to
any customer demand, market opportunity or
external threat.
Applies To Governments As Well
Historic Junctures – 20 years to exploit
Start up
1771
Industrial
Revolution
Deployment
1797
Manufacturing develops
Repeal of tariff laws opens trade
1829
Steam &
Railways
1847
Economies of scale
Joint stock companies
1875
Steel, Electricity &
Heavy Engineering
1893
Transcontinental rail
Banking reform
1908
Oil, Automobiles
& Mass Production
1929
Interstate / international highways
IMF, World Bank
1971
Information &
Telecommunications
2005
Linux, Open Source
Collaboration – Innovation
Why Linux?
 Secure & Reliable
 Flexibile – offers choice
 Facilitates Simplification
 Promotes Integration
 Promotes Rapid Innovation
UNIX
migrations
Windows
migrations
Flexibility and
Choice
Security.
Total Cost of
Ownership
Reliability
New Workloads
A Perfect Path To On Demand!
.
The Value of Open Innovation
“… works like an ant colony,
where the collective
intelligence of the network
supercedes any single
contributor.”
Linux : A Platform For Innovation
Linux Optimized IBM Software Solutions
Industry Solutions
ISV Applications
Tivoli
Rational
Open
Lotus
DB2
Source
WebSphere
SMB Solutions
Linux supports The Technologies of Open Innovation
Grid
Deep
Computing
Linux
Virtualization
FOR THE BENEFIT OF HUMANITY
Organization
 Advisory Board - international experts representing:
–United Nations
–The Mayo Clinic
–Environmental Protection Agency
–World Health Organization
–National Science Foundation
 IBM donated hardware, software, and expertise to build
infrastructure
 IBM provides free hosting, maintenance and support
Technology
 Volunteers download a small, free agent
 When idle, PCs request data from the WCG server, perform
computations, send back results and request it for new work
To join the grid, please visit www.worldcommunitygrid.org
Potential Projects:
Research with philanthropic or humanitarian
purpose, conducted by public and not-for-profit
organizations with the results available in the
public domain.
Disease Research
Natural Disasters and Hunger
Environmental Research
First Project: Human Proteome Folding
Provide scientists data predict the shape of human
proteins.
How each protein affects human health, scientists
can develop new cures for human diseases.
… over 5000 Linux-enabled ISV Applications
. . . IBM is working with over 33,000 developers
IBM is Accelerating Linux Use in Retail Solutions
SuSE Linux Expertise
and
IBM Retail Experience
Combining to provide
A Best Of Breed Linux
Solution for Retail
IBM Corporate Linux Status
Linux in Government – Major Initiatives
Australia
Brazil
China
Columbia
European Union
Finland
Germany
India
Italy
Malaysia
Mexico
Norway
Philippines (Desktop)
South Korea
South Africa
Thailand (Desktop)
United Kingdom
USA
IBM Linux Centers of Competency around the world
IBM Linux Support Investments
Technical Support
WW Competency Centers
Worldwide
Porting Centers
Linux
Specialists
Linux
Technology Center
IBM developerWorks
Linux Whitepapers
and Redbooks
Linux
Integration
Center
OSDL
Products
HW & SW
Linux Enabled
Business Partners & ISVs
Linux
Services
www.ibm.com/linux
IBM Linux Support Centers
IBM Linux Centers of Competency
IBM Executive Briefing
Centers
Austin, TX
Boeblingen, Germany
Greenock, Germany
Mainz, Germany
Montpellier, France
Poughkeepsie
Research Triangle Park, NC
Rochester, MN
Tucson, AZ
IBM Design Centers for
e-business on demand
Poughkeepsie, NY
Makuhari, Japan
Montpellier, France
San Jose, CA
Austin, TX
Bangalore, India
Beijing, China
Boeblingen, Germany
Johannesburg, SA
London, England
Moscow, Russia
New York, NY
Poughkeepsie, NY
Research Triangle Park, NC
Seoul, Korea
Stockholm, Sweden
Tokyo, Japan
IBM Linux Integration
Centers
Austin, TX
Boeblingen, Germany
Tokyo, Japan
Beijing, China
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Singapore
Keep Thinking
Keep Collaborating
Keep Innovating
Carol Stafford
IBM Vice President
Linux
Migrations – Unix & Windows to Linux
Bonhams- Leading Fine Art Auction House
 Migration/consolidation from Sun Solaris
 Web-based auction management solution
 Linux Cost-effective, scalable platform
 IBM eServer® xSeries® x360 and x232
servers
 Reduced Maint & Admin Activities
 Staff Has Anytime, Anywhere Info. Access
For Enhanced Customer Relationships.
Swisscom IT Services - Leading full
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service IT service provider
Linux Migration From UNIX & Windows
Order Mgmt & Billing Systems
About 70 Virtual Linux Servers on IBM
eServer zSeries® With Z/VM
Lower TCO Due To Higher Capacity,
Lower HW Costs, Easier Maint, Admin &
Faster Scalability
Flamenco Networks - Web Services Support
Provider
 Migration From Sun Solaris To Linux
 IBM eServer xSeries 305 & 345 With Linux
 Database Failover On IBM TotalStorage®
FAStT® 200 storage server
 Significantly More Processing Power &
Improved Productivity
University of Florida - Education, Healthcare
and Life Sciences
 HPC/Grid Computing Application
 Sought More Resilient, Highly Secure, HighPerformance Solution
 Improved Research Productivity
 Implemented z800 & xSeries 300 With Linux
cluster with 32 nodes running VMware, with
IBM Storage Server®.
Migration Experiences & Practices Documented In IBM Redbooks
60% of IBM Customers are Implementing Linux
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Infrastructure
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Enterprise
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Firewall
Print/File
Web Server
e-mail
Database server
Commercial Clusters
ERP, CRM, SCM
Vertical Industry
Applications
Mission Critical Apps
Applications
eCommerce
 Super Computing
Clusters
 SW Development
 Web Hosting
 Branch Automation
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Client
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Industry-specific
Browser-based
clients
General
desktop
IBM Workplace Client Technology
No Touch Deployment – Low TCO
Rich user experience
• Server-managed delivery of rich clients to end user
communities
• Centralized administration, setup and client updates
• Provision capabilities when needed –
on demand
• Disconnected use and synchronization
• Power of client software – i.e drag-n-drop,
improved responsiveness, UI control
• Componentized and Contextual
• Embedded Doc Management
Extensible client platform for
• Collaboration, including mail, calendaring and
scheduling, instant messaging, team spaces…
• Document management
• Existing Web, Java, .Net and Notes Applications
• New Applications – IBM and Business Partners
Built in Data Management and Security
• Using local and server managed encrypted
data stores
• With robust policy managed access
and control
Choice and Flexibility
• Linux, Windows and MacOS (future)
desktops
• Leverage existing Office documents and
Java.Net and C++ applications
• Standards-based interoperability
On Demand…What is it?
 on demand = utility computing…
 on demand = a code word for outsourcing…
 on demand = “leasing on steroids…”
 on demand = just a marketing campaign…
On Demand Business Transformation
Business
Transformation
Culture
IT Enablement
IBM is Accelerating Linux Use in Industry Solutions
Industrial
Distribution
Financial
Telecom
Over 5,000 Applications!
Public
Impact of On Demand Business
Companies that are farther along in their On Demand Business journey show
stronger business results than others in their industry.
Improvement in Performance Metrics vs. Industry Peers*
15 pts
1.3 pts
1.2 pts
.6pts
1.8pts
Higher
growth in
Earnings
Gross
Profit
Margin
ROI
ROA
P/E
*Median difference in 3 year improvement of performance metric between the most advanced companies
and their sectors (S&P 1500). Source: IBM On Demand Business Impact Research Analysis, December 2004
OpenPower
BladeCenter
iSeries
zSeries
…
pSeries
Linux Runs Across
All IBM eServer
Platforms
xSeries
Over 300
Middleware
Products Enabled
IBM Global Services
IBM & Linux
Over 7,000
Services
Professionals
IBM’s Internal Use of Linux – Transforming IBM’s Infrastructure
 3,500+ Production Servers; 45,000 clients WW
 www.ibm.com/linux & w3.ibm.com/linux
– Redundant xSeries Linux servers
 IGS Internet Vulnerability Security Scanning
– 120 xSeries scanning 30k IP addresses/week
 Performance Monitoring
– 75% fewer Linux servers than NT servers for same workload
 IBM Global e-Mail Anti-virus & Anti-Spam Management
– xSeries scans incoming/outgoing mail for viruses and spam
 300mm Wafer Manufacturing Equipment Control
– Much more reliable than Win2000
– 223 xSeries servers in production
 Workstation Asset Management Applications
– 4 Linux zVM Guests on zSeries server
– Variable workload/on demand capacity
 Netview server consolidation
– Consolidated 62 NT/AIX servers onto 2LPARs on a z800 server: 40-60% savings
On Demand Business Growth Cycle
Productivity
Growth
Cycle
Innovation
Collaboration
IBM Support Line for Linux
24x7 coverage, Linux total systems management, supplements
customer staff with IBM skilled specialists
Description
ƒ Defect support, how to's, problem definition
and solution definition for supported
distributions of Linux and Linux
applications, through dial or electronic
submission.
Benefits:
ƒ Electronic support and problem submission
saves customer time and allows tracking of
open support issues
ƒ Fast, accurate problem resolution
ƒ 24x7 Enterprise level support available
http://w3-1.ibm.com/services/salesone/so/us/sales/sof_support.html
IBM Linux Technology Center
MISSION
-Accelerate Growth of Linux As
enterprise OS
-Work As Trusted, Valued Member
Of Linux Community
-Drive Up Development Efficiencies
Enable IBM
Products
Make Linux
Better
Expand Linux
Reach
LTC Projects:
•Scalability
•Networking
•Security
•I/O
•Volume Management
•JFS
•Serviceability
•File / Print
•Globalization
•NUMA
•Directory
•HPC Clusters & HA
•Systems Management
•Standards
•Test
•Performance
•Level 3 Support
•Accessibility
•Documentation
•Carrier Grade Linux
•Data Center Linux
•Additional
Maintenance Projects
IBM Linux Integration Center
To assist the IBM sales team convert qualified Linux-based IBM middleware leads into
revenue. In so doing, our drive is to help the IBM sales team respond to customer
opportunities and help deliver integrated proposals to IBM customers.
Sales and Partner Support
 Problem determination and
w3.ibm.com/linux/lic
Solutions
Enablement
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IT Architecture
ISV support
Partner support
Solution validation
and Tuning
 Drive key features
into the Linux
community
Sales and Partner
Support
Solution
Enablement
resolution
 Customer Pilots
 Document best practices
 Help Identify opportunity
Sales and Partner
Enablement
Sales and Partner
Enablement
 Collateral
 SW Certification
Matrix
 Labs & workshops
IBM is Accelerating Linux Use in Banking Solutions
Payments
Risk &
Compliance
Core Systems
Transformation
Branch
Transformation
IBM's Contribution to Linux
600+ developers worldwide
70+ active projects
Critical contributions to current and
in-progress
versions of Linux:
Scalability
System Performance
Security
Serviceability
Internationalization
Availability
Members of the Linux
Community
Linux Standards Base
Free Standards Group
Linux Internationalization
Kernel Summit
Linux Weekly News
Cluster Management
System Management
Stress Testing
Networking
Standards & Documentation
Reliability
Open Source
Development Lab
USAGI (IPV6) Project
GNOME Foundation
KDE League
OSDL Carrier Grade
OSDL Data Center
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