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Application Development Access & Management FLASH

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Application Development

C C ++ C#

• Environment that the ‘open source developer’ uses

• Industry standard vs the XLC currently on IBM i

• Ability to get any OS packaged running on IBM i without IBM intervention

• Easy include OS add-on and plugins for recent OS additions

GNU Compiler Collection – the Swiss army knife of compilers

Access & Management

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ACS

BRMSvHMC

Cache is becoming the new memory.

Memory is the new disk.

Disk is being replaced by flash.

FLASH - reduce wait time & improve customer experience

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Nightly backups reduced from 3h to 1h15min.

Ridiculously fast response times for web interfaces. IPL went from about twelve minutes to five.

Long-running jobs ~30 minutes now complete in six.

Thoughts After My POWER8 Upgrade

Think the surface of Mercury hot

Flash i Performance (FLiP) projections

For job X projected a runtime improvement from 3,152 to 457 sec.

In reality it was 417 sec

For job Y projected a runtime improvement from 1,562 to 596 sec.

In reality it was 596 sec

In reality response time went from (ms) Reads Writes X: 4.86 to 0.36 2.09 to 0.91 Y: 5.39 to 0.31 4.35 to 4.20

FLiP projections vs reality

EUR 100,000 saved in annual costs helps the company price its products competitively

5x faster storage performance accelerates data access, supporting better-informed decision-making

“With the IBM i running on IBM POWER8 servers and IBM FlashSystem storage, we reduced the runtime of certain, complex scheduling and planning tasks in SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization by up to 90 percent.

This enables us, for example, to modify production schedules to accommodate incoming customer orders within just 20 minutes – dramatically improving business agility.”

POWER8 and Flash storage, faster access to the product data.

“Response times have been improved by 56%, helping to improve productivity for our staff.”

“55% faster processing of background tasks, and database processing alone was accelerated by up to 70%.“

“a significant increase in Java performance speeds up all our SAP applications noticeably from the point of view of the end users.”

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