HOW TO OPTIMIZE YOUR IT FOR MORE SPEED AND SUPERIOR ECONOMICS.

IBM POWER8® Hybrid Cloud

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Hybrid cloud gives you the best of public and private

clouds. They can help you realize the benefits of the

third platform, which is built on:

Cloud | Big Data | Mobility | Social

Welcome to the

new age of computing.

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Every company is unique. And even their individual needs can change in an instant based on business opportunities. That’s why most companies are looking towards the hybrid cloud.

Hybrid cloud isn’t one size fits all.

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Three common hybrid cloud use cases.

The three most common hybrid cloud use cases are:

• Integration• Workload Rebalancing• Portability

IBM® Power Systems™, with POWER8 processor-based technology are specially designed to support your workloads across these use cases.

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Hybrid cloud allows you to rapidly and securely integrate

systems of engagement with back-end systems of record

across cloud environments — helping you innovate while

serving customers.

IntegrationUse Case:

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If you want your customers to be able to use your mobile apps to make purchases, you’ll need the ability to quickly access customer and product information from traditional IT systems. This requires real-time responses.

POWER8 of fers the improved I/O and memory bandwidth to help the integration between cloud and on premise systems handle your needs.

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Use Case:

Workload Rebalancing

Use Case:

Workload Rebalancing

Different workloads have different

requirements when it comes

to security, speed, energy and

storage. For example, gaming or

big data analytics can take up

a lot of system capacity. While

development workloads are suited

for the economics of a public

cloud. Long-term operation of an

application will often be brought

to a private cloud or datacenter.

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SoftLayer® services can

help increase the fl exibility

and scalability of the

platform to help support

placement of workloads on

x86 or POWER8 based on

requirements or preferences.

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Open Source Docker for IBM Power Systems enables

you to build once and port across public and private

clouds—providing workload optimization.

PortabilityUse Case:

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• Power Systems architecture is designed to support a variety of workloads

• Power Systems allow massive parallelism, increased memory and I/O bandwidth

• 4x more threads per core

• 4x more memory bandwidth

• 5x more cache vs. x86

• Flexible, cloud-based private, public and hybrid offerings with Power Systems support open standards and technologies with rapid innovation, and secure and effi cient deployment

Hybrid Cloud and IBM Power SystemS.

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Read hurwitz white paper “Optimizing the hybrid cloud” and get the full story >

Learn more about ibm power systems >

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