How IBM Partners are Driving Business Success

Why You Should Consider Linux on

IBM POWER8

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Why do organizations choose

Linux on Power?

• Reliability: Reduce risks with a

tested, proven, predictable and

secure open platform

• Flexibility: Tailor your Linux

infrastructure and adapt to

changes

• Ecosystem: Connect with a large

ecosystem of partners, customers

and experts

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Revolutionizing the security,

integrity and cost-effective use of healthcare data

Improving the performance & scalability in e-Commerce

Offering fully web-based ERP solutions built on Ubuntu on Power

Banking innovations with Big Data & Analytics using open-source on Power

How our partners use Linux on IBM POWER8 to reduce costs across the Healthcare, Banking &

Retail industries

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Designed for Big Data Superior Cloud Economics Open Innovation

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The Need

• Develop the really innovative

experiences that merchants need to

stand out in the eCommerce market.

The Solution

• Magento Enterprise Edition

• IBM POWER8

• IBM Turbo Lamp Stack

The Benefits

• Open source software built on high

performance, scalable architecture that

allows you to meet peak demands

• Increased memory utilization to handle

more web traffic, page views and orders

• POWER8 architecture delivers 2.5 – 3x

performance improvements over similarly

priced Intel architectures using IBM

Turbo Lamp Stack“We’re very excited that IBM is

leveraging both open standards &

Linux platforms and core principles

that Magento holds near and dear,

and has allowed us to fuel our growth

and add the innovation that’s in the

community.”

Paul Boisvert, Head of Project

Management, Magento 4http://youtu.be/ttNi-b6HCSo

http://magento.com

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The Need

• Optimization for collecting, processing

and analyzing large volumes of data

and consistently getting the lowest

latency on trading applications

The Solution

• Informatica Ultra Messaging

• Linux on IBM POWER8

The Benefits

• Core clock frequencies and dense multi-

core processors allow more applications

on a single CPU socket, reducing latency

• Access to the fastest shared memory

transports delivering sub-100 nanosecond

latencies optimized for high performance

messaging in the real-time big data space

• Ingest, manipulate and transform larger

data sets

“Through close collaboration with

IBM’s technical staff… we’re able to

ensure that we’re leveraging the

latest and greatest from POWER

Linux… in support of real-time big

data workloads…”

Jitesh Ghai, VP Product

Management, Informatica5http://youtu.be/v9g1ZsIKMVQ

https://www.informatica.com

The Need

• The ability to deliver analytics to an

entire company on an enterprise scale

requires larger scale implementations

and systems

The Solution

• Information Builders WebFOCUS

• IBM POWER8

The Benefits

• IBM Power systems give you the ability

to move a BI workload onto a more cost-

effective, more scalable system

• Provide linear scalability to support more

users, provide better response times, and

better reliability, for less cost

• Extremely cost-effective: delivering

insight and analytics to literally thousands

of people at a very low cost

“Because of the price/performance

of the POWER8 system, you can

deliver insight and analytics to

literally thousands of people, at a

very, very low cost”

John Senor, SVP, Channels

Development, Information Builders

6http://youtu.be/npxbzEgggJE

http://www.informationbuilders.com

The Need

• High performing, dynamic business

management software solutions

• Web-based, open source ERP system

future-proofed with the scalability of

IBM POWER8 systems

The Solution

• OpenPro Enterprise ERP system

• Ubuntu Linux on IBM POWER8

• IBM Turbo Lamp stack

The Benefits

• Integrated with standard open source

products that all run on the Ubuntu

Operating System on IBM POWER8

• Reliable and proven Linux on POWER8

has built-in security to provide customers

the confidence to put their products in the

Cloud

• POWER8 reduces cost, reduces power

consumption and is a smaller footprint

“Because of the performance of the

POWER8 system on Linux, it will

reduce the number of boxes

that…hosting sites need…”

Jim Clark, Co-Founder and CEO,

OpenPro7http://youtu.be/uCtDOCl5038

http://www.openpro.com

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The Need

• The ability to take large volumes of

information from an operational

system, serve it into a Big Data

environment and have resulting insights

processed in a timely fashion

The Solution• Veristorm vStorm Enterprise

• IBM POWER8

The Benefits

• vStorm on POWER8 provides an open

source, Big Data integration platform

running on the same system deriving

insights faster

• Leading-edge innovation with CAPI and

GPU acceleration to build faster clusters

and increase resiliency

• Providing the end-to-end picture of Big

Data environments

“[This] means that you’re bringing

the best of both worlds together,

that leading-edge innovation and

it’s supporting community, as well

as the strength and resiliency of a

high end system.”

Yannick Barel, VP, Worldwide

Sales8http://youtu.be/azUJIlu-zSg

http://www.veristorm.com

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The Need

• Ability to quickly query & correlate

data from multiple EHRs and other

disparate databases containing both

structured and unstructured healthcare

data – across multiple organizations

The Solution

• Zato Health Interoperability Platform

• Ubuntu Linux on IBM POWER8

The Benefits

• Processes that took thousands of hours

were reduced to 30 minutes or less

• High performance edge processing of

information silos containing both clinical

and genomic data, spanning networks and

data centers in parallel using Power Linux

• Cost-effective, energy & space efficient,

secure, high performance, high ROI

“Features of POWER8 that we’re

particularly looking forward to are

high availability of the system… & the

cost effectiveness of the platform…”

Paul McOwen, CEO, Zato Health

9http://youtu.be/67NJjgY4M90

www.zatohealth.com

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The Need

• Provide proven enterprise-class security

and compliance for data in the retail,

financial, and healthcare verticals using

Big Data databases like Hadoop and

NoSQL

The Solution

• Zettaset Orchestrator

• RHEL Linux on IBM POWER8

The Benefits

• Confident security in inherently insecure

open source Big Data database

environments

• Maintain high levels of performance with

the scalable POWER8 system in

distributed Hadoop or NoSQL clusters

• Meet HIPAA, SOX, PCI and other

industry compliance mandate

requirements

“The ability for POWER8 systems

to do scale out…without having an

impact on performance for the

customer is very important to us…”

John Armstrong, VP of Marketing,

Zettaset

10http://youtu.be/MFuJO1GrDwQ

http://www.zettaset.com

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