It’s no secret that dynamic technology changes are rapidly remaking how organizations do business. Technology is advancing so rapidly, in fact, that communities of collaboration are forming just to harness it all. The growing torrent of data from both within and outside your organization, from mobile employees and from customers and prospects, presents an unprecedented opportunity to gain valuable insights and apply these insights at the best point of impact to improve your business results.

Making the transition to advanced capabilities requires an integrated infrastructure that supports your key IT initiatives. IBM has made great investments to bring optimized solutions in the areas of advanced analytics, cloud, and mobile access are designed to simplify and accelerate your journey to address today’s market opportunities.

The latest generation of IBM® Power Systems™, with POWER8™ technology, is the first family of systems built with innovations that transform the power of big data and analytics, mobile, and cloud into competitive advantages in ways never before possible. These scale-out systems provide powerful, scalable, and economical means to put data to work for you.

Benefits-at-a-glance

  • Built with innovation that puts data to work
  • Brings insights to the point of impact faster through a data-centric design
  • Delivers better economics and quicker returns for scale-out infrastructure
  • Minimizes risk with secure delivery of data and services
  • Delivers open innovation, revolutionizing the way IT is developed and delivered

Designed for the demands of big data and analytics

Businesses are amassing a wealth of data and Power Systems can store it, secure it and, most importantly, extract actionable insight from it in a timeframe that matters. Power Systems are designed for big data. From predictive analytics and data warehouses to unstructured big data processing 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’ first generation of Scale-Out servers are built on POWER8 technology, and push the physical and virtual boundaries of data center technology with innovation designed to drive faster and more efficient data-centric applications required for today’s smarter enterprise. Building on a heritage of strong resiliency, availability and security, Power Systems’ open, data-centric design combines computing power, big memory, memory bandwidth, and broad pathways to process and move data through applications in ways that are easier to consume and manage.

Better economics for scale-out data and cloud infrastructures

Businesses are expecting a lot from the cloud and Power Systems has the performance capabilities to help organizations reap the benefits of improved economics with fewer scale-out servers. With higher utilization than x86 servers, Power Systems offers superior cloud economics. Through its PowerVM® and PowerKVM™ virtualization software and choice of leading cloud applications, IBM Power Systems virtualization provides intelligent, dynamic resource allocation for rapid response to workload demands.

IBM Power Systems 1 and 2 socket servers provide the ideal foundation for scale-out data and cloud environments, with the economic advantages and security you need to confidently move more data-centric applications to the cloud. With over twice the bandwidth as prior generation servers and a 65 percent system utilization guarantee, these systems allow open infrastructures to scale out intelligently with less hardware, power, and cooling requirements.

Deliver new capabilities for mobile applications

Core business systems such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management are crucial elements in responding to market needs. They manage and deliver the data that businesses—and their customers—demand. But increasingly, these Systems of Record are connected to employees and consumers through mobile and social Systems of Engagement designed to improve the user experience and drive competitive advantage. In this increasingly complex environment, mobile applications are now mission-critical and cannot run as isolated applications with their own set of data, and demand higher levels of service and improved performance.

Power Systems offers the open technologies required by mobile applications plus the computational speed, data bandwidth, low latency, and resiliency required to provide immediate, reliable responses to mobile users when they need it most. They gain the best of both worlds—combining the advantages of shared IT infrastructure for core systems and extending engagement systems securely and reliably through mobile applications.

Delivering open innovation revolutionizing the way IT is developed and delivered

POWER® architecture is the heart of the OpenPOWER™ Foundation, a growing community built around an open technology platform to foster new opportunities and deliver a broader set of applications and new technologies quickly.

Leveraging open standards, Power Systems provides developers with tools tuned for a platform that boosts productivity and performance by removing constraints imposed by commodity architecture. With an architecture that supports open standards such as Linux, OpenStack, KVM, and others—and with community innovation driven through Power Systems Linux Centers, Watson & Power development clouds, and the OpenPOWER Foundation—Power Systems will enable future integrated hardware solutions that dramatically accelerate compute and data-intensive tasks.

Delivering rapid ROI while transforming how critical business services are delivered

Whether you’re a current Power Systems customer or exploring the potential of what IBM Power Systems can bring to your IT service delivery, the innovations delivered in this new class of Power System servers are designed to protect existing IT investments and expand opportunities with deep integration of emerging workloads into current processes, enabling companies to deliver better business services to end users. Designed to share resources without performance conflict, new emerging applications can be rapidly deployed to bring immediate ROI to your business.

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IBM Power Servers

Why 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.

  • IBM Power Systems Enterprise Pools: Greater flexibility, availability and control for your business

  • IBM’s Enterprise Pools technology – exclusively on IBM Power Systems – enable you to move virtual processor and memory resources easily and conveniently, for virtually continuous server availability and simplified maintenance and system upgrades. See http://www.ibm.com/power/hardware/systempools/

  • POWER8 Scale-Out: Speedy and Scalable Cache

  • Follow Power Systems on YouTube to see how POWER8 puts the power in YOUR hands and read the blog on CAPI here: http://ibm.co/1AE8OtQ The result of breakthrough innovation, the POWER8 cache introduces a distinct divide-and-conquer design, which drives efficiency by allowing each core to carve out specific cache segments, while contributing to a more efficient, less costly infrastructure.

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  • Ready to Embrace Your Digital Transformation?

  • Can a chip make the world safer?

  • Take a few seconds and see the waitless way Zato, using the enormous crunching power of POWER8, helped combat global terrorism, scanning terabytes of security data in milliseconds. Find out more at ibm.com/power/waitless

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  • More Power to Transform Business

  • What can Big Data do for you? The momentum of IBM Power Systems continues with breakthrough announcements that put data to work across the enterprise. New IBM Power Systems Solution Editions for SAP HANA make deploying SAP HANA fast and easy with configurations to meet your business needs. The new IBM Power Systems E850 is the most agile 4-socket system in the marketplace with unique capabilities like capacity on-demand. Get ideal linear scalability for in-memory databases, like IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration, with new IBM Power Systems E870 and E880. And the new IBM PurePower System delivers the most secure converged infrastructure for Cloud with open choice. Find out how IBM Power Systems are built for the Waitless World.

  • IBM® Power Systems™ let you capitalize on customer insight and expand your business

  • Growing data volumes and sources provide unlimited opportunities to increase customer engagement and revenue. Create new revenue sources with IBM Power Systems by analyzing multiple data sources in real time with open and secure cloud technology.Stay in Touch:Subscribe to our YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/ibmpowersystemsFollow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ibmpowersystems

  • POWER8 Scale-Out: CAPI & Hardware Acceleration

  • Follow Power Systems on YouTube to see how POWER8 puts the power in YOUR hands and read the blog on CAPI here: http://ibm.co/1BRB6s6 POWER8 is expanding to new levels of partnership by opening up the CAPI architecture to innovation and customization. Tens of thousands of developers from around the world are now able to work on the platform and build solutions that we could never have imagined.

  • POWER8 Scale-Out: Amazing and Accessible

  • Follow Power Systems on YouTube to see how POWER8 puts the power in YOUR hands and read the blog on POWER8 Cache here: https://ibm.biz/BdEjFv POWER8 clearly stands as the best scale-out system for a business’s rapidly evolving needs. In addition to delivering at least two times the performance of the closest competitor, the overall acquisition costs are 58 percent lower. Inherent efficiencies, made possible by a wide range of sophisticated design breakthroughs allow for a 66 percent reduction in infrastructure overhead.

  • Unleash the Power of Mobile

  • Mobile on IBM Power Systems – http://www.ibm.com/systems/power/solutions/mobile/index.html – offers customers a robust, secure, and agile infrastructure to leverage mobile applications and workloads for their enterprise. When a single Tweet can cause a surge of traffic, make sure your systems never go down. Power Systems helps make sure customers have a seamless mobile experience – providing integration, security and scale.

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