IBM PureSystems by John Carson

When IBM announced IBM PureSystems its aim was to simplify the way that companies deploy and run their applications, offering an integrated infrastructure with PureFlex, a platform system with PureApplication, and a data services system with PureData.  A company looking at IBM’s  Pure Family would benefit from a factory pre-configured converged system that could host a number of operating systems, hypervisors and architectures all controlled from a single console.

Operating Systems	Hypervisors	Architectures
AIX	Hyper-V	IBM Power
IBM i	KVM	X86
Linux	PowerVM
Windows	VMware
	Xen

 IBM PureFlex

IBM PureFlex combines factory pre-configured compute nodes, storage, networking and management in a 42U rack for quick and easy deployment.  This allows IT managers to reduce the growing pressure on power, cooling, space and maintenance costs in today’s data centres.

r  Up to 66% faster setup time allows you to deploy in hours instead of days.

r  Up to 2x the application density in the same floor space.

r  Energy costs reduced by 40%.
r  Up to 200% increased performance on critical applications.
r  70% fewer cores needed than previous generation result in lower software licensing costs.

IBM PureApplication

PureApplication uses the PureFlex’s infrastructure along with integrated “Patterns of Expertise” to capture and automate best practice for configuration and management.  Designed for the cloud, IBM PureApplication is optimised for transactional web, database and Java applications out of the box.

r  Pre-integrated and Pre-optimised.
r  A single console for simplified management.
r  Automatically handles the assignment of resources to applications.
r  Automatically manages to your specified service levels.
r  Elastic scaling in times of heavy demand.

IBM PureData

IBM PureData is the newest member of the growing PureSystem family.  PureData is aimed at e-commerce and supports DB2 and Oracle to deliver data services with simplicity, speed and lower cost.  PureData comes in three flavours:

r  PureData System for Transactions
Powered by Netezza technology - database services that handle large volumes of transactions with high availability, scalability and integrity.  Handles more than 100 databases on 1 system.

r  PureData System for Analytics
Data Warehouse services for complex analytics and reporting on data up to petabyte scale – with minimal administration. 10-100x faster than traditional systems and 20x greater concurrency and throughput.

r  PureData System for Operational Analytics
Operational Warehouse services for continuous ingest of operational data, complex analytics, and a large volume of concurrent operational queries.  Designed to handle 1000+ concurrent operational queries and gives up to 10x storage savings with active compression.

 

The PureSystems Family

Taken as a whole, the IBM PureSystems family aims to put an end to the need for engineers spending weeks, and potentially months, installing, configuring, testing and deploying traditional hardware.  The integration of the systems makes management easier than traditional methods.  Along with the hardware and software optimisations, this all adds up a smarter way to work, with huge savings together with greater productivity.