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Across all industries, the rate of change has increased rapidly in recent years. With data as the new natural resource,

organizations are finding new efficiencies to improve their operations and new opportunities to grow. At the same time,

they face new threats from emerging competitors that can disrupt entire industries in the blink of an eye.

To stay ahead in a fast moving world, your organization needs to be increasingly flexible to meet whatever challenges the

future may bring. Your systems must be capable of generating rapid insight from huge amounts of structured and unstructured

information, and your IT infrastructure must extend seamlessly to link securely with partners, stakeholders and customers.

This e-book gives an overview of the advantages of POWER8 processor-based systems for four key use-cases across industries:

High-Transaction Workloads Security and Compliance Mission-Critical Workloads Big Data

Summary

Organizations in every industry

are under pressure to provide

larger sets of products and

services at lower costs. Equally,

customers, employees, shareholders

and citizens have increasing

expectations of fast, seamless and

reliable service.

Retailers must process large

volumes of online and mobile

transactions rapidly and reliably,

while gathering huge volumes of

multi-dimensional data to model

customer interactions.

Choosing Linux on POWER8 versus x86, Allegiant Travel shrunk its core count by 75% and saved $1.2 million.

High-transaction workloadsIn travel and transportation, the

internet of things (IoT) is bringing

vast increases in the volume and

speed of real-time data processing.

In banking and finance, the

growing trend for personalization

and customization is dramatically

expanding the number of IT

transactions. Equally, customers

increasingly expect to be able to

monitor and manage their accounts

and portfolios in real time and from

any device.

In healthcare, personalized

medicine and growing

sophistication in research

techniques, diagnostic tests and

medical equipment are driving a

boom in data volumes.

Government bodies must gear up to

ensure the faster and more efficient

provision of services to growing

populations, especially in smarter

cities powered by IoT technologies

that will depend on the real-time

processing and analysis of huge

volumes of data.

IBM Power Systems offers

ultra-reliable systems with the

scalability to manage the highest

peaks of transactional processing.

The latest POWER8 processors

deliver exceptional advantages

over x86-architecture servers,

delivering greater performance in

a smaller and more cost-effective

footprint.

Upgrading from POWER7® will

deliver the same performance in

less than half the footprint, cutting

infrastructure cost and complexity.

With its superior architecture,

threading and cache structure,

POWER8 can cut per-core software

licenses by up to 50 percent.

High-transaction workloads on

open-source databases, including

EnterpriseDB, MongoDB and Redis,

excel on Power Systems servers

running Linux.

As workloads move to the cloud,

the ability to run multiple operating

systems—including Linux—makes

Power Systems the ideal platform.

Spikes in demand can be managed

automatically by shifting workload

seamlessly between owned servers

in the enterprise data center or

private clouds and rented servers in

the SoftLayer® cloud.

IBM Power Systems also offers Elastic

Capacity on Demand to provide

cloud-like consumption models.

Organizations can activate and

deactivate processors as demand

rises and falls, maintaining the

optimal balance between price

and performance.

Staples cut TCO for IT by upgrading to the latest Power Systems servers, accelerating page‑loading by 55% to offer greater speed and convenience to online customers.

Organizations must secure

transactions, fight fraud, maintain

business credibility by securing their

online presence, and protect against

IT security threats.

They must also remain accessible

to customers and partners, and

connect to third-party systems less

secure than their own. Maintaining

the right balance between security

and openness depends on a robust,

centralized approach to monitoring

and managing access to data.

Retail organizations store huge

amounts of valuable and potentially

sensitive data on customer

preferences and purchasing history.

In travel and transportation,

keeping goods and people moving

smoothly is increasingly dependent

on secure, trusted data, exchanged

securely with partners.

Banking and finance are among the

most heavily regulated industries

worldwide, and their reputation

A major ocean cruise company upgraded to Power Systems for its scale‑out Linux environment, rejecting an x86 alternative in the public cloud in favor of the enhanced security, reliability and compliance benefits of POWER8.

Security and compliancecan be destroyed by any breach of

data security that reveals sensitive

financial information.

Healthcare is also highly regulated

from research, testing and drug

manufacture through to patient care

and electronic medical records.

And in an age of digital identities,

government organizations must

protect but also securely share huge

amounts of extremely valuable

information on citizens.

IBM Power Systems continues to

offer the gold standard in reliability

and data protection. Offering a

high-performance, highly scalable

infrastructure with security built

into every level, the latest POWER8

processor-based servers also enable

the rapid processing of vast volumes

of data required for applications

such as anti-money-laundering and

real-time fraud detection.

For additional performance,

organizations can use the new

CAPI feature to enable specialty

accelerators to share memory

with POWER8 processors for

minimal latency.

Mature IBM PowerVM®

virtualization technology provides

a secure environment for IBM

AIX®, IBM i and Linux applications,

enabling multiple sensitive systems

to run side-by-side on the same

hardware for reduced complexity

and cost. PowerVM is the only

hypervisor with zero documented

vulnerability exposures, making

Power Systems the ideal choice

for both scale-up and scale-out

architectures.

For organizations in highly regulated

industries, IBM PowerSC™ provides

a security and compliance solution

that is optimized for virtualized

environments, enabling them to

meet the same security levels as

physical servers and improving their

auditability.

Optimization for high utilization

keeps the physical infrastructure

compact and cost-effective.

Logicalis uses POWER8 processor‑based servers in geographically separated US data centers to provide enterprise‑class performance, availability and security for its customers’ mission‑critical applications.

Reliable IT operations have never

been more important; even short

outages are costly and damaging.

Where once only ERP and financials

were critical, today’s interconnected

markets also require constant

availability for communications,

sales and decision-support systems.

Organizations need IT infrastructures

that enable users to analyze data

and serve customers or citizens

without missing a beat.

Retailers must always be able to

deliver the right goods to the right

stores at the right time, and to

accept payments on all channels.

In travel and transportation,

delayed arrivals or deliveries cause

financial and reputational damage,

particularly as automation and the

use of IoT technology grows.

Customer confidence in service

availability is critically important

for banks, while even sub-second

Mission-critical workloadsinterruptions in financial trading can

mean the difference between profit

and loss.

For frontline healthcare providers,

protecting mission-critical workloads

can literally be a matter of life or

death.

For government organizations,

reliable citizen services, public

safety and disaster response depend

on keeping critical systems and

data available around the clock.

At UF Health Shands Hospital in Florida, clustered Power Systems servers provide outstanding reliability for the mission‑critical Epic system, supporting 24/7 patient care.

IBM Power Systems solutions

continue to offer the class-leading

reliability, availability and security

features that make them a fixture in

many global organizations requiring

the highest levels of protection for

mission-critical systems.

Built to provide resilience at every

level, Power Systems servers feature

chipkill memory with advanced

error checking and correction (ECC)

technology that isolates data from

the impact of a single memory chip

failure.

IBM PowerHA® SystemMirror®

for both the AIX and i operating

systems now integrates server

clustering technology into the kernel

and the OS to improve the speed of

response and enable faster failover

in the event of an unexpected

failure.

For enterprises, the solution

supports stretched clusters that can

span multiple physical locations

and hybrid on-premises/cloud

infrastructures.

With Power’s seamless connection

to the cloud, organizations can

connect mission-critical on-premises

data and systems with mobile

and cloud-native applications,

leveraging standard REST APIs

for easy development and

management.

This ability to extend processing

into the public cloud supports

organizations that need to keep

systems running at all times, no

matter what happens.

Fransabank runs its new core banking system on Power Systems, boosting performance by 40% while cutting 3 hours from overnight batches and saving 5 hours at month‑end.

As digitization gains pace,

commercial and government

organizations are gathering,

processing and storing more data

from more sources than ever

before—at an ever-growing rate.

Organizations must absorb huge

volumes of data at high speed,

manipulate and understand

it, and then use advanced

analytics to unlock its full value

for decision-support and real-time

operational visibility.

Big dataRetailers that understand what

motivates their customers can

deliver the right offers at the right

time to win sales and build loyalty.

In travel and transportation,

analyzing large volumes of data

helps to optimize logistics and

ensure on-time delivery.

High-frequency trading and the

personalization of financial products

are driving extreme data growth

in banking and financial services.

Likewise, the advent of personalized

medicine based on genomics

and the growing use of high-tech

diagnostics are causing data

volumes to explode in healthcare.

Government organizations are

exposed to big data as they capture

more information on growing

populations and introduce new

systems to serve citizens more

effectively and efficiently, including

sensors and other monitoring

systems in smart cities.

Zato Health uses Linux on Power Systems to tackle big data challenges. Accelerating analytics processes from 1000s of hours down to just 30 minutes helps improve patient outcomes.

IBM Power Systems delivers

exceptional performance for

analytics workloads, helping

organizations to gain insight faster

from larger and more complex

multi-source data sets.

The latest POWER8 processors offer

4X the threads, 4X the memory

bandwidth and 4X the cache of x86

processors. OpenPOWER innovations

such as CAPI enable accelerators

to deliver order-of-magnitude

improvements in analytics and

machine learning. Popular open-

source analytical tools offer

exceptional performance on

POWER8; for example, Apache

Spark offers 2X the per-core

performance versus x86.

In big data, a key challenge is to

balance performance with costs.

Power Systems helps by providing

micro-services and APIs to facilitate

the connection of on-premises

data with economical and flexible

cloud-based tools.

Using OpenStack and a large

ecosystem of open-source data

services, developers can leverage

self-service and automated

delivery of database- and

analytics-as-a-service solutions.

In a digital, data-driven world,

the race is on to identify and

seize opportunities. POWER8

processors deliver the performance,

cost efficiency, capacity and

cloud-readiness to give your

organization a head start.

Memorial University of Newfoundland uses Power Systems to design personalized care for high‑risk patients, enabling an 83% improvement in results turnaround time.

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