Stephen Leonard General Manager, Global Markets IBM Systems and Technology Group Why Infrastructure Matters
Jan 28, 2015
Stephen Leonard General Manager, Global Markets IBM Systems and Technology Group
Why Infrastructure Matters
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• IBM’s 100+ year story of continuous innovation
• Research and development
• Successful customer engagements
• Solutions for a Smarter Planet based on optimized infrastructures and proactive analysis
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IBM’s 2013 study proves the importance of infrastructure
• Global C-suite Study: Over 4,000 leaders representing more than 20 industries in 70 countries
• Technology again ranked as the most important factor
• New solutions, software, and infrastructure are helping to fulfill the promise of a Smarter Planet
Technology #1
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The pace of change is accelerating
are building new apps for cloud delivery
80% 90% of all data on planet Earth is��� years old or less
of the world’s online population
uses social networks on a
regular basis
80%
60%
Spending on marketing analysis
is up by
are either planning ���big data implementations… or leveraging them already
75%
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Yesterday’s infrastructure can’t meet tomorrow’s needs
• Infrastructure matters more than ever
• IT infrastructure must provide enhanced efficiency, agility, and economics
Big Data��� and���
Analytics
$200 billion expected client
spend on big data implementations
MOBILE
SOCIAL
CLOUD
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Infrastructure choice matters because it positions you for success
• IT infrastructure decisions affect everything— from database and business analytics to cloud and virtualization
• The right decisions can help you: Ø Improve the economics, performance,
and efficiency of all IT services via cloud
Ø Drive business transformation via big data and analytics
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Cloud: Transform how you provide IT services
• Respond more swiftly to business opportunities with agile, software-defined infrastructures
• Enhance efficiency by optimizing workload and resource deployment
• Improve IT economics by leveraging technologies built on open standards
Speed
Efficiency
Economics
Agility
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• Anticipate market changes, achieve new insights, and roll out new services faster than competitors
• Accelerate decision-making— even making them in real time
• Understand and engage with customers more easily and effectively
• Empower employees with insights by maximizing right-time availability
Big data & analytics: Understand today so you can create tomorrow
Employee empowerment
Decision making
Anticipate change
Customer engagement
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• Thousands of clients have deployed successful clouds built on IBM systems
• IBM Systems for your computational, network, and storage infrastructure
• Successful customer engagement with integrated systems to drive real-time insights
• Infrastructure innovation at an incredible pace to pave the way for fundamental business transformation
• Committed to open standards and technology for speed of innovation, integration, and choice
Why choose IBM for cloud and big data?
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Customer Case Study: Foley & Lardner LLP
International law firm with 2,300 employees servicing clients 24/7
Service continuity is critical
Leveraged the RESILIENCY of IBM System x3850 X5
Support advanced
virtualization
Consolidate infrastructure
Increase application
performance
Maximize uptime
• Increased I/O throughput
• Easier service and upgrade of parts
• Resiliency
• Reduced overall server footprint
• Lower costs
Interest for their ���next-generation infrastructure
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IBM X6 portfolio
IBM Flex System for SmartCloud Orchestrator
IBM PureFlex for VMware vCloud Suite
IBM Platform Resource Scheduler
Other storage and networking solutions
Infrastructure matters for private and hybrid clouds. Is your infrastructure designed for success?
Fast, agile, simple
Fast, simple, efficient
Optimize resource utilization, cost and quality of service
Efficient management and utilization
Fast, agile, resilient
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Next generation EXA Technology, X6
Infrastructure matters for big data and analytics. Is your infrastructure designed for results?
Lower latencies Faster response times Smarter data management in real time
Real-time access to data for workloads that require faster data access
Extreme performance, business continuity, and optimal workload availability
IBM FlashSystem 840 FlashSystem Enterprise Performance Solution
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Infrastructure matters—now more than ever
In today’s presentations, learn more about: • New innovations with
our new x6 portfolio
• New FlashSystem solutions
• New IBM PureSystems and Systems Networking portfolio
• Successful client engagements that already have delivered impressive results