POWER8 the x86 Server Farm

IBM Business Partners use POWER8

to Lower Client Costs

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How do organizations lower costwith Linux on IBM POWER8?

• Big Data: Reduce cost with 60% fewer

servers and 2.5X the performance for

Hadoop, all with linear scalability up to

192 cores

• Cloud Economics: POWER8 delivers

lower costs with 58% lower HW TCA

and 66% less systems, lowering SW

fees, floor space & management costs

• Open Innovation: Ease development

with open software and analyze data 8X

faster with NVIDIA GPU technology

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Designed for

big data

Superior cloud economics

Open innovation

platform

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Analyze more data faster

and more cost effectively than ever before

Greater cost efficiency with POWER8 and NVIDIA GPUs

Optimize supply chain with dynamic memory resource allocation

Improve RAM performance at a much lower cost with CAPI-Flash

IBM Business Partners use POWER8 technologiesto lower clients costs over competitive platforms

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Speed of Innovation Interoperability Choice

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The Need

• More insightful analysis of incoming real

time data in a smaller footprint with

improved energy efficiency

• Significantly improved performance for

CPU- and I/O-intensive queries

• A future-ready platform

The Solution

• GIS Federal GPUdb

• Linux on IBM POWER8

• NVIDIA GPUs

The Benefits

• Provide a future-ready platform with world-

class hardware and services from IBM

• Improve performance with reduced cost

using less servers and power consumption

• Higher concurrency per core ratio for CPU

intensive workloads

• Increase memory bandwidth for high-

performance databases

“Now that POWER is on board as well

we’re going to be able to have the best

hardware platform with a gold standard in

high-performance computing.”

Nima Negahban, Chief Technical Officer,

GIS Federal 4

gisfederal.com/

http://youtu.be/h1_YNGsiOD0

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The Need

• Cloud-based e-commerce with rapid

response to market changes

• Improved client experience with better

performance and higher availability

• Multi-tenancy and automation allowing

security and resource guarantees by

cloud service providers

The Solution

• LaGrange CloudMaestro

• IBM POWER8

The Benefits

• Reduce cost per transaction by almost half

• Increase memory bandwidth and higher

core count

• Deliver 1.5X the user throughput

“The POWER8 platform was capable of

delivering a significant improvement in

customer experience…we found that

this was an excellent solution for the e-

commerce merchants that we work with”

Jay Smith, Founder & CEO,

Lagrange Systems 5

www.lagrangesystems.com

http://youtu.be/m1oc-GdNXiU

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The Need

• Optimized supply chains both from a

topline revenue perspective as well as

an efficiency perspective

• Scale out capability with a centrally

managed environment

The Solution

• Manhattan Supply Chain Management &

Optimization software

• Linux on IBM POWER8 and Enterprise

Pools

The Benefits

• Create processing efficiency and reduce

hardware costs

• Provide flexibility to clients through one

cohesively managed environment

• Improve performance with dynamic

allocation of memory across various

applications

“When [clients] come to us and say - we’re

going to use your software and we’re going

to use it on IBM…we’re very confident in

recommending to them what they need from

a performance and sizing perspective.”

Rob Thomas, SVP, Global R&D,

Manhattan Associates 6

www.manh.com/

http://youtu.be/-8i2n_Mt3Yw

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The Need

• A database benchmarked as the worlds

fastest

• Real-time analytics, fast high-volume

transactions & in-app social functionality

• Ability to handled growing social, mobile

and web presence transactions

The Solution

• Redis Labs Enterprise Cluster (RLEC)

• Linux on IBM POWER8

• IBM CAPI-Flash

The Benefits

• With a IBM POWER8 server with CAPI-

Flash, IBM 840 Flash System and RLEC:

• Reduce downtime with dramatically

improved operational simplicity while

maintaining sub-millisecond latency

• Process over 200K ops/sec while storing

90% of multi-terabyte dataset on Flash

• Reduce deployment costs by over 70%

“POWER8 and Redis is a match made

in heaven because it enables really

outstanding performance.”

Ofer Bengal, Founder & CEO,

Redis Labs

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http://youtu.be/cCmFc_0xsvA

redislabs.com

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The Need

• Live big data analysis in fast-changing

Hadoop environments at unprecedented

speed

• Ability make more informed decisions in

the moment

The Solution

• ScaleOut hServer®

• Hadoop Linux on IBM POWER8

The Benefits

• Simultaneous data updates and analysis at

in-memory speeds

• Dramatic workload acceleration with highly

optimized Java execution environment on

POWER8

• 3.5x faster performance and more than 3x

speed up in comparison to competitive

technologies

“We were very pleased to find that the

POWER8 platform supports the Linux

operating system. This made our job of

porting our software to the POWER8

platform fast and easy.”

Dr. William Bain, CEO and Founder,

ScaleOut Software 8

http://youtu.be/7q5ERajssvs

www.scaleoutsoftware.com

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The Need

• Ability to keep your CRM system

available, secure, and cost-effective

• Break down silos and improve service

levels with embedded tools

• Spend less time worrying about

infrastructure and more time making

your clients happy

The Solution

• SugarCRM

• Linux on IBM POWER8

The Benefits

• Improved scalability, availability, cost, risk,

complexity, and management to host CRM

• 2X the performance of comparable

technology allowing scalability for global

deployment of CRM solutions

• Ability to grow deployments without

additional infrastructure costs

“With SugarCRM and POWER8 our

customers get all the performance

and scalability that they need but at

a price point that makes sense for

them.”

Clint Oram, Co-Founder & CTO,

SugarCRM9

http://youtu.be/tYTIYOQFwIQ

www.sugarcrm.com/

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The Need

• Unlock the performance and efficiency

potential of parallel programming for

multicore systems

• Create applications that can transport

across multicore architectures with easy,

auto-parallelizing, transparent solutions

The Solution

• TMT SequenceL

• Linux on IBM POWER8

The Benefits

• Built on open industry standards to provide

easy, low risk path to modernize programs

• Explore GPU acceleration benefits without

learning low-level languages

• Benefit from high core/thread count, large

cache sizes, balanced memory and I/O

• Replace multiple racks with a single server

and apply supercomputing to the enterprise

“POWER8 with Linux could really be a

game-changer…we think this [partnership]

is going to be very compelling for our

customers and it’s going to let us tap into

new vertical markets where we really

haven’t gone to before.”

Doug Norton, Chief Marketing Officer,

Texas Multicore Technologies10

http://youtu.be/lGo9-gpBmQs

www.texasmulticoretechnolo

gies.com/

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