1. 1. Welcome to the Waitless World Designed for Data Open innovation puts data to work across the enterprise Martin Lagerberg IBM Power Systems Sales BeNeLux Contact Info: http://ibm.co/mlagerberg
2. 2. 2015 IBM Corporation Welcome to the Waitless World The business technology landscape 47% Increase in M-commerce sales 2014 Q2 year-over-year.2 92% Growth in cloud deployment since 2012.6 10 billion Mobile connected devices in use.1 2.5 quintillion Bytes of data created every day.3 450 billion Daily internet transactions by 2020.4 80% of data is unstructured and it is growing at 50-60% per year.5 2
3. 3. 2015 IBM Corporation Welcome to the Waitless World IT organizations that are ready for the Waitless World will benefit most from it Companies with leading IT infrastructure 3X more likely to outperform in revenue growth, 2.4X in net profit margin1 90% Organizations with IT infrastructure unprepared for cloud, analytics, mobile and social.1 70% Organizations that recognize IT infrastructure is crucial to success. 1 60% Organizations planning to increase IT spend in next 12-18 months.1 3
4. 4. 2015 IBM Corporation Welcome to the Waitless World Systems of insight Systems of record Systems of engagement 2015 IBM Corporation 4 Enterprise innovation will be realized by integrating new era technologies with core systems
5. 5. 2015 IBM Corporation Welcome to the Waitless World The Opportunities from Big Data & Analytics are Infinite 1000X faster insights 75% productivity improvement 10X storage space savings 3.5X less infrastructure 68% less attrition among high-value customers 50% increase sales order capacity 140X faster queries Source(s): Fiserv (Case Study), NC State Univ (Video), Coca Cola (eBook, Video, Case Study), STO (Case Study), Dillards (Video), BCBS of Tenn (eBook), BCBS of Tenn (eBook), Fossil (based on customer internal benchmarks)
6. 6. 2015 IBM Corporation Welcome to the Waitless World Big data design Superior cloud economics Open innovation platform IBM Power Systems: built with open innovation to put your data to work across your enterprise IBM Power Systems built on 2015 IBM Corporation 6
7. 7. 2015 IBM Corporation Welcome to the Waitless World Big data design Power Systems with POWER8 are designed to address your big data needs, with optimized business agility and a highly scalable, in-memory analytics platform. Superior cloud economics Power Systems deliver superior cloud economics with secure and open choices to help solve your cloud and mobile computing challenges. Open innovation platform Power Systems protect your investment with an innovative and rapidly growing open ecosystem that broadens your application choices and enhances your customization options How IBM Power Systems help you achieve enterprise goals 2015 IBM Corporation 7 Waitless computing. Made with IBM
8. 8. 2015 IBM Corporation Welcome to the Waitless World Improve infrastructure agility with Power Accelerate SAP HANA with optimized Power infrastructure Gain mission critical, enterprise-level performance from scalable, in-memory analytics platforms Big data design Attain security enhanced, converged cloud infrastructure Realize pay-as-you-go flexibility with IBM i Cloud Reduce operating costs with automated workload management Superior cloud economics Speed cloud innovation with open, secure technologies Broaden application choice and simplify migration with Linux Achieve choice, customization, and performance with open collaboration Open innovation platform 2015 IBM Corporation 8 Todays news continuing the transformation of the IT industry
9. 9. 2015 IBM Corporation Welcome to the Waitless World 9 999 Power X86 Applications & Services Systems Management & Cloud Deployment Systems Acceleration & HW/SW Optimization Firmware, Operating System & Hypervisor Processors Semiconductor Technology 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 Performance/Price (SIR/$) POWER SYSTEMS Integrated Innovations Processor speed has reached a tipping point - System stack innovations are powering the future
10. 10. 2015 IBM Corporation Welcome to the Waitless World IBM Supports Linux for the Enterprise Partnering to provide a complete support solution for implementing and managing the Linux operating system in enterprise server and cloud environments IBM now delivers consistent little endian support for the enterprise across leading Linux distributors: Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu One Contract, One Phone Number for Linux environment support IBMs support approach focuses on speed to resolution Seamless collaboration on multi-vendor products as your single source provider 10 2014 IBM Corporation LE LE LE
11. 11. 2015 IBM Corporation Welcome to the Waitless World Processors flexible, fast execution of analytics algorithms Memory large, fast workspace to maximize business insight Cache ensure continuous data load for fast responses 4X threads per core vs. x86 (up to 1536 threads per system) 4X memory bandwidth vs. x86 (up to 16TB of memory) 5X more cache vs. x86 (up to 224MB cache per socket) Designed for Big Data: optimized Big Data & Analytics performance Optimized for a broad range of big data & analytics workloads: 82X is based on IBM internal tests as of April 17, 2014 comparing IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration on Power with a comparably tuned competitor row store database server on x86 executing a materially identical 2.6TB BI workload in a controlled laboratory environment. Test measured 60 concurrent user report throughput executing identical Cognos report workloads. Competitor configuration: HP DL380p, 24 cores, 256GB RAM, Competitor row-store database, SuSE Linux 11SP3 (Database) and HP DL380p, 16 cores, 384GB RAM, Cognos 10.2.1.1, SuSE Linux 11SP3 (Cognos). IBM configuration: IBM S824, 24 cores, 256GB RAM, DB2 10.5, AIX 7.1 TL2 (Database) and IBM S822L, 16 of 20 cores activated, 384GB RAM, Cognos 10.2.1.1, SuSE Linux 11SP3 (Cognos). Results may not be typical and will vary based on actual workload, configuration, applications, queries and other variables in a production environment. UNSTRUCTURED IN-MEMORY STRUCTURED
12. 12. 2015 IBM Corporation Welcome to the Waitless World Big data design helps you: 2015 IBM Corporation 12 Drive analytics queries up to 82X faster with next generation, in-memory technologies from leading database providers Analyze massive amounts of unstructured data and reduce storage infrastructure by 300% for Hadoop deployments Achieve smart data acceleration with 24X less server infrastructure using open innovation on CAPI
13. 13. 2015 IBM Corporation Welcome to the Waitless World Improve infrastructure agility: the 4-socket IBM Power E850 1 Statement of Direction for 4TB of memory on Power E850 All statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only. Designed for big data business agility with flexible capacity and guaranteed utilization Increased efficiency and reduced operational costs from a compact, energy-efficient 4U chassis with flexible growth from 2 to 4 sockets Optimized for Linux and AIX workloads with Integrated Facility for Linux (Power IFL) Rapidly adjust to changing demands with seamless processor and memory provisioning with both Capacity Upgrade on Demand (CUoD) and elastic Capacity on Demand (COD) Deploy up to 48 POWER8 cores and 4 TB of memory1 Access superior Reliability, Availability, Serviceability (RAS) standard hot plug, redundant power supplies and cooling as well as active memory mirroring for hypervisor 2015 IBM Corporation 13
14. 14. 2015 IBM Corporation Welcome to the Waitless World Obtain: Waitless insights More performance and scale Higher performance-per-watt With IBM Power Systems that include: Power enterprise pools PowerVM Enterprise Edition Active Memory Mirroring for hypervisor PowerCare services 24x7 warranty service Power E870 8 to 80 cores @ 4.19 GHz 8 to 64 cores @ 4.0 GHz 256 to 8TB Memory 1 or 2 nodes (5U) per system Power E880 8 to 128 cores @ 4.35 GHz Up to 192 cores @ 4 GHz 256 to 16TB Memory 1 to 4 nodes (5U) per system Built-in elastic CoD days Gain mission critical, enterprise-level performance from scalable in-memory analytics platforms 2015 IBM Corporation 14
15. 15. 2015 IBM Corporation Welcome to the Waitless World 15 Power Scale-out systems built with open innovation to put data to work Power S824L 1 or 2 sockets 10 or 12 cores/socket Up to 2 TB of Memory Power S824 or Power S814 1 or 2 sockets 6, 8,10 or 12 cores/socket Up to 2 TB of Memory Power S822Power S812L or Power S822L Designed for Big Data Superior Cloud Economics Open Innovation Platform
16. 16. 2015 IBM Corporation Welcome to the Waitless World Designed for Data: Big Memory for Big Data Speed access to data with larger in- memory databases and consolidate more applications with 2TB of installed memory in Scale-out Systems Support the bigger data demands and consolidate large databases of complex mission critical applications securely with 16TB of memory on new Power Enterprise Systems
17. 17. 2015 IBM Corporation Welcome to the Waitless World Deliver unparalleled speed of access to data and insights UNSTRUCTURED IN-MEMORY STRUCTURED IBM Data Engine for Analytics, IBM Solution for Hadoop, IBM Data Engine for NoSQL, InfoSphere BigInsights & Streams, Elastic Storage Server DB2 BLU Acceleration, Oracle Database 12, SAP HANA DB2, Oracle, EnterpriseDB, MariaDB and other industry databases, Cognos, SPSS Up to 3X lower TCA 56% more query results per hour 2X faster performance 2015 IBM Corporation17
18. 18. 2015 IBM Corporation Welcome to the Waitless World Data-centric supercomputers based on POWER for Department of Energy, Oak Ridge National Labs and Lawrence Livermore to advance innovation and discovery in science, engineering and national defense in $325M deal Power Scale-Out Systems deliver science performance 4X-8X faster than Titan or Sequoia legacy systems. Sequoia (LLNL) 2012 - 2017 Mira (ANL) 2012 - 2017 Titan (ORNL) 2012 - 2017 Current DOE Leadership Computers Leveraging the worlds most advanced data-centric systems 2015 IBM Corporation18
19. 19. 2015 IBM Corporation Welcome to the Waitless World 24:1 consolidation 8X faster insights Data Engine for Analytics CAPI-attached Flash 3X less storage Open innovation to deliver insight to the point of impact with Big Data & Analytics on Power Systems NVIDIA GPU Accelerator 82X faster insights Next Generation In-Memory source: for 24:1 system consolidation ratio (12:1 rack density improvement) based on a single IBM S824, (24 cores, POWER8 3.5 GHz), 256GB RAM, AIX 7.1 with 40 TB memory based Flash replacing 24 HP DL380p, 24 cores, E5-2697 v2 2.7 GHz), 256GB RAM, SuSE Linux 11SP3 . Inbound network limits performance to 1M IOPs in both scenarios, equal capacity (#user, data) in both cases. x86 cost includes 10k$ for 2x 1U switches source: for 82X is based on IBM internal tests as of April 17, 2014 comparing IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration on Power with a comparably tuned competitor row store database server on x86 executing a materially identical 2.6TB BI workload in a controlled laboratory environment. Test measured 60 concurrent user report throughput executing identical Cognos report workloads. Competitor configuration: HP DL380p, 24 cores, 256GB RAM, Competitor row-store database, SuSE Linux 11SP3 (Database) and HP DL380p, 16 cores, 384GB RAM, Cognos 10.2.1.1, SuSE Linux 11SP3 (Cognos). IBM configuration: IBM S824, 24 cores, 256GB RAM, DB2 10.5, AIX 7.1 TL2 (Database) and IBM S822L, 16 of 20 cores activated, 384GB RAM, Cognos 10.2.1.1, SuSE Linux 11SP3 (Cognos). Results may not be typical and will vary based on actual workload, configuration, applications, queries and other variables in a production environment.
20. 20. 2015 IBM Corporation Welcome to the Waitless World Designed for Big Data: Drive Infrastructure Optimization 24X infrastructure consolidation savings vs. x86 for in-memory data IBM Data Engine for NoSQL allows clients to crunch data faster and shrink data center footprints Reduce server footprint with in-memory consolidation Cost efficient with 3x lower cost per user IBM Data Engine for NoSQL IBM Power S822L CAPI-Attached FPGA Accelerator IBM FlashSystem 840 Ubuntu Linux Redis Software source: for 24:1 system consolidation ratio (12:1 rack density improvement) based on a single IBM S824, (24 cores, POWER8 3.5 GHz), 256GB RAM, AIX 7.1 with 40 TB memory based Flash replacing 24 HP DL380p, 24 cores, E5-2697 v2 2.7 GHz), 256GB RAM, SuSE Linux 11SP3 . Inbound network limits performance to 1M IOPs in both scenarios, equal capacity (#user, data) in both cases. x86 cost includes 10k$ for 2x 1U switches
21. 21. 2015 IBM Corporation Welcome to the Waitless World Deliver new acceleration capabilities for Analytics, Big Data, Java and other technical computing workloads Runs pattern extraction analytic workloads faster Delivers faster results and lower energy costs by accelerating processor intensive applications Power Systems S824L Up to 24 POWER8 cores Up to 1 TB of memory Up to 2 NVIDIA K40 GPU Accelerators Ubuntu Linux running bare metal 8X faster analytics workloads that extract patterns from large amounts of data Open innovation with POWER8 and NVIDIA GPU technology borne of the OpenPOWER Foundation
22. 22. 2015 IBM Corporation Welcome to the Waitless World Big Data & Analytics Solutions for Fastest Time to Value DataStage POWER8 Data Optimized Solutions: Simple to Acquire Order server, storage, software and support from a single vendor Simple to Deploy Pre-installed and pre-optimized server, storage & software Simple to Implement Highly scalable to grow as your analytics need change IBM BLU Acceleration Solution Next generation in-memory database technology for analytics at the speed of thought IBM Solution for Analytics Enable rapid deployment of business and predictive analytics
23. 23. 2015 IBM Corporation Welcome to the Waitless World While traditional TV ratings research will continue to be important, it must be augmented by social media intelligence. -- KC Leung, Senior Manager, Marketing Research and Information Department, Unlock the value of customer sentiment in social media TVB will mine more than three decades of program ratings data to understand the trends of media consumption habits. IBM Social Media Analytics (SaaS) IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration IBM Cognos BI, IBM DataStage IBM Power Systems IBM Storwize V7000 Hong Kongs first wireless commercial television station implements social media analytics to increase ratings Learn more (Press, Case Study)
24. 24. 2015 IBM Corporation Welcome to the Waitless World We cut report runtimes by up to 98 percent thanks to IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration (on Power Systems) technology without changing operations processes or investing in new hardware or software. -- Bernhard Herzog, Team Manager Information Technology SAP, Balluff. Faster insight into critical data for better business decisions Achieved 98% faster access to business data, 50% faster SAP ERP response times, 7x faster access to documents, and near real-time access to essential information. IBM Power Systems IBM PowerVM, PowerHA IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration SAP Business Warehouse, ERP IBM Storage & Services World-leading manufacturer of sensor solutions gained faster insight into markets and customers Learn more (Press, Case Study)
25. 25. 2015 IBM Corporation Welcome to the Waitless World Eliminate data bottlenecks with a database and architecture designed for real-time analysis NEW for 2015 Deploy on Power with a fraction of the computing resources We realized an amazing 10 -25x reduction in the storage requirements for the database. Analyze data as fast as you can ask questions One of our most time consuming queries experienced a 50x performance improvement. Deliver business insights with less administration Without having to build indexes, we can just load and go. Business Agility Speed of Thought Analytics Operational Simplicity DB2 with BLU Acceleration on Power delivers business value Designed to deliver improvements versus databases on x86, DB2 with BLU Acceleration with little endian support for Linux on Power Systems can: Accelerate analytics freely between POWER-based and x86-based database systems Analyze data from the existing ecosystem of x86 Linux applications
26. 26. 2015 IBM Corporation Welcome to the Waitless World The System: 32 cores, 1TB memory, 10TB table with 100 columns and 10 years of data The Query: How many sales did we have in 2010? SELECT COUNT(*) from MYTABLE where YEAR = 2010 The Result: In seconds or less as each CPU core examines the equivalent of just 8MB of data 10TB data Actionable Compression reduces to 1TB In-memory Parallel Processing 32MB linear scan on each core via Vector Processing Scans as fast as 8MB through SIMD Result in seconds or less Column Processing reduces to 10GB Data Skipping reduces to 1GB DATA DATA DATA DATA DATA DATA DATA DATA DATA DATA DATA DATA DATA DATA DATA BLU Acceleration Illustration: 10TB query in seconds or less
27. 27. 2015 IBM Corporation Welcome to the Waitless World Cognos BI and DB2 with BLU Acceleration on POWER8 Fast on Fast on Fast Acceleration of analytics queries for reporting 82X is based on IBM internal tests as of April 17, 2014 comparing IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration on Power with a comparably tuned competitor row store database server on x86 executing a materially identical 2.6TB BI workload in a controlled laboratory environment. Test measured 60 concurrent user report throughput executing identical Cognos report workloads. Competitor configuration: HP DL380p, 24 cores, 256GB RAM, Competitor row-store database, SuSE Linux 11SP3 (Database) and HP DL380p, 16 cores, 384GB RAM, Cognos 10.2.1.1, SuSE Linux 11SP3 (Cognos). IBM configuration: IBM S824, 24 cores, 256GB RAM, DB2 10.5, AIX 7.1 TL2 (Database) and IBM S822L, 16 of 20 cores activated, 384GB RAM, Cognos 10.2.1.1, SuSE Linux 11SP3 (Cognos). Results may not be typical and will vary based on actual workload, configuration, applications, queries and other variables in a production environment. 82X faster
28. 28. 2015 IBM Corporation Welcome to the Waitless World The more concurrency and complexity, the greater the performance gains from POWER8 versus x86 Based on IBM internal tests as of April 17, 2014 comparing IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration on Power with a comparably tuned competitor row store database server on x86 executing a materially identical 2.6TB BI workload in a controlled laboratory environment. Test measured 60 concurrent user report throughput executing identical Cognos report workloads. Competitor configuration: HP DL380p, 24 cores, 256GB RAM, Competitor row-store database, SuSE Linux 11SP3 (Database) and HP DL380p, 16 cores, 384GB RAM, Cognos 10.2.1.1, SuSE Linux 11SP3 (Cognos). IBM configuration: IBM S824, 24 cores, 256GB RAM, DB2 10.5, AIX 7.1 TL2 (Database) and IBM S822L, 16 of 20 cores activated, 384GB RAM, Cognos 10.2.1.1, SuSE Linux 11SP3 (Cognos). Results may not be typical and will vary based on actual workload, configuration, applications, queries and other variables in a production environment.
29. 29. 2015 IBM Corporation Welcome to the Waitless World Drive waitless insights with the most scalable in-memory analytics platform in the industry 192 cores @ 4 GHz 1 4 node, 4-16S (12c) Up to 16 TB Memory 128 cores @ 4.35 GHz 1 4 node, 4-16S (8c) Up to 16 TB Memory Power E880 9119-MHE Scalability up to 4 compute nodes Up to 192 Cores (16 sockets) Up to 16 TB (4 TB / node) Up to 16 PCIe I/O Expansion drawers Economic Advantage of Modular expansion start where you need to and grow your business seamlessly Ideal linear scalability1 up to 16-sockets / 192 cores on Analytic workloads with DB2 BLU New 4Q14 2Q15 Based on IBM internal tests as of April 24, 2015 using IBM DB2 10.5 with BLU Acceleration on IBM Power System E880 with up to 192 cores, POWER8; 4 GHz and up to 8TB memory running AIX 7.1. 1.96X scalability is based on IBM Internal Testing of sample analytic workloads consisting of 24 unique queries based on a mix of intermediate and complex queries concurrently and randomly executed against a 20 TB raw dataset. Performance improvement figures are cumulative of all queries in the workload and represent the gain from a 19 concurrent users on a 96 core/4TB configuration compared to a 38 concurrent users on a 192 core/8TB configuration. Results may not be typical and will vary based on actual workload, configuration, applications, queries and other variables in a production environment 11.96x greater throughput from 92 to 192 cores
30. 30. 2015 IBM Corporation Welcome to the Waitless World What are Industry Analysts saying about BLU Acceleration on Power Systems http://bit.ly/1ndCUmA http://bit.ly/1ndGxZU IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration on POWER8 for SAP: A No-Compromise Transactional and Analytic Platform IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration on POWER8 for Cognos BI: Delivers higher levels of performance, while controlling costs
31. 31. 2015 IBM Corporation Welcome to the Waitless World Accelerate SAP HANA with optimized Power Systems infrastructure Expedited time-to-valuedeploy SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems in days vs. weeks. Speed analytics from Business Warehouse data using SAP enterprise applications Lower overhead for multi-threaded workloads with built-in enterprise virtualization Reduce operational costs with fewer cores and smaller footprints Designed for mission critical 24x7 enterprise operations Built-in agility with flexible configurations including S824, E850 & E870 Solution Editionsno restrictions like Intel-based appliances Easily co-locate multiple applications or deployment stages (test/production) on the same system with PowerVM virtualization We believe the platform can fundamentally transform the HANA adoption journey for our customers. Vipin Singh, global vice president of SAP Technology Practice for NTT DATA, Inc. 31
32. 32. 2015 IBM Corporation Welcome to the Waitless World Power Systems are designed for Big Data & Analytics 3X less storage infrastructure for Hadoop deployments vs typical x86 IBM Data Engine for Analytics designed to help clients speed up insights on massive amounts of data Simplify operations - easy deploy and manage with 3x less storage infrastructure Adapt and scale to your changing analytics needs IBM Data Engine for Analytics POWER8 Scale-out servers Red Hat Linux BigInsights (Hadoop) & Streams Platform Computing Elastic Storage Server (GPFS)
33. 33. 2015 IBM Corporation Welcome to the Waitless World 1copy of data versus 3 copies 4x performance improvement on social media The IBM Data Engine for Analytics Advantage 50x faster Compression 16x faster Decompression 4x more memory bandwidth versus x86 3.2x the cache of x86 2x better performance versus x86 cores 4x more hardware threads per core 10x to 100x network performance growth since Hadoop inception Up to 3x reduction in storage disk count 2x storage bandwidth increase 2x storage cost reduction 12+ GB/s performance
34. 34. 2015 IBM Corporation Welcome to the Waitless World Delivering Customer Value Computing environment allowing students to run analytics models on structured and unstructured data with IBM Power Systems 37x FASTER INDEXING 14 days to 9 hours 3.5x LESS INFRASTRUCTURE 14 x86 servers to 4 Power servers
35. 35. 2015 IBM Corporation Welcome to the Waitless World The Business Case for Using Unstructured Text Analytics on IBM Power Systems for Critical Decision Making http://bit.ly/1eCTJVu Industry: Company Question Sources Outcome Temporary workforce: Kelly Services Develop new service offerings in healthcare staffing SEC, URLs, trade journals, professional journals, insurance providers Decision to move forward in an unexpected healthcare domain Industrial Gases: Air Products Find new customers and market opportunities SEC, news feeds, industry publications, building permits Identification of a new customer planning to build new facilities University: NC State Identify commercial partners for new technologies SEC, URLs, industry publications Potential partners identified for collaborations Clinical Research Organization: PRA International Provide business intelligence for new clinical trials Clintrials, PubMed Identify new physicians/hospitals with expertise in areas of clinical trials Non-Governmental Organization: Clinton Health Care Access Initiative (CHAI) Find the fit between new technologies and market opportunities for disease diagnostics Clintrials, PubMed VC firms Identification of research labs active in cutting edge diagnostic research
36. 36. 2015 IBM Corporation Welcome to the Waitless World What are Industry Analysts saying about Hadoop and Streams on Power Systems http://ibm.co/1pdGES9 http://ibm.co/1HthwSY Why Linux on Power Systems should be your system of choice for unstructured big data & analytics How companies are gaining high value insights with big data & analytics solutions built on IBM Power Systems
37. 37. 2015 IBM Corporation Welcome to the Waitless World IBM can help you build your solution on the platform that was designed for big data & analytics All Data Key Business Processes Unstructured Data Structured Data Industry Solutions IBM Watson Cognitive Business & Predictive Analytics
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