Upcoming European Video Chat: Understanding the Patterns of Expertise – Creating a new step on the virtual technology continuum

21. Juli 2014 Posted by Yathish Kumar

(This is a guest entry posted on behalf of Kerstin Olasik)

Organizations have a continuum of choices for increasing the efficiency of application development and deployment in virtual and cloud environments. This continuum, including virtual appliances, virtual systems and virtual application patterns, provides increasing levels of value.

IBM PureSystems Virtual Application Patterns are designed to deliver proven expertise, enabling capabilities that are essential for developing and deploying applications into virtual environments and the cloud. They also go beyond development and deployment to include automated lifecycle services, with patterns providing policy-based management, monitoring and maintenance.

A panel of experts will discuss help you understand the patterns of expertise better on July 24, 2014 (1:15 – 2:00 PM CEST).

The panel includes:

  • Georg Ember: Leading Technical Sales Professional – IBM PureSystems SWG
  • Mark Aichholz: Manager Technical Sales – zTivoli ISM and Workload optimized Systems

You can also questions or post comments on Twitter using the #IBMPureChat tag during the video chat.

You can watch the session live below here during the video chat:

Want to learn more on how to rapidly extend your applications to the cloud? Sign up for a product demo webinar and learn how to extend applications to the cloud with IBM PureApplication Service on SoftLayer. Our next webinar is on July 30, 2014.

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What is the relationship between PureSystems, BlueMix, SoftLayer, DevOps, and Cloud Foundry?

18. Juli 2014 Posted by Yathish Kumar

(This is a guest entry posted on behalf of Romeo Kienzler)

I’ve been asked this question many times by clients so I thought I’ll give a brief overview in this blogpost. In order to define relationships between these entities, I’ll first describe them briefly.

IBM PureSystems

PureSystems is called the “Expert Integrated Systems” because you don’t have to worry about configuration of nodes, storage, network, SAN and power anymore. Everything ships as an appliance and you only have to plug-in the power and network and you are ready to run. We have PureSystems on the IaaS (IBM PureFlex System), PaaS (IBM PureApplication System) and DbaaS (IBM PureData System) layers. These are meant for building private clouds in your data center.

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IBM SoftLayer

This is IBM’s IaaS public cloud offering. In contrast to competition, IBM provides bare metal nodes and bare metal network components (routers, firewalls) in addition to the virtualized infrastructure components. All network traffic within the worldwide SoftLayer backbone is for free, so data center failover and real 24/7 SLA’s are now available not only for the financial service clients, but for everybody!

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Cloud Foundry

I think Google started with the idea of a scalable component cloud called AppEngine. This idea has been picked up by Amazon with Beanstalk. These offerings are very innovative, but they lack one key aspect. They lock you into their middleware. So you cannot use common open and closed source application middleware and services (e.g. TOMCAT, PHP, MySQL, etc.). Therefore Cloud Foundry has been invented as open standard to build PaaS clouds and every application running on a Cloud Foundry compliant cloud can be migrated easily to other cloud service providers.

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IBM Bluemix

Bluemix is IBM’s PaaS Cloud offering using Cloud Foundry and running on OpenStack/SoftLayer. In addition to Cloud Foundry, command line tools and Eclipse plugins, Bluemix also provides a Web Management console for managing application and services in Cloud Foundry running on Bluemix. And, of course, in addition to IBM supported open source runtimes and services you have the choice of the full IBM software portfolio. Also, in case you want to use a DB2 BLU Data Warehouse accelerator over a MySQL or PostgreSQL, you can do this with just a few mouse clicks!

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DevOps

DevOps means Development and Operations, and when written in this way, it means a system that facilitates and connects development and operation tasks together, especially things like continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment in conjunction with defect and change request management provides an easy and agile way to adapt this process to your application. Google and Facebook are deploying multiple production releases per day. With DevOps services in Bluemix, you can do the same now, even without installing any tool locally if you don’t want to.

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So now we know the basics, let’s put this together:

You have your idea. Using your favourite runtime (WebSphere, Tomcat, PHP, Node.js, Ruby, etc.) and your favourite services (MySQL, PostgreSQL, DB2, message queues, etc.) just go to hub.jazz.net to use the Bluemix DevOps services and deploy it on the fly in the Eclipse Orion based IDE directly to Bluemix. And guess what, it is up-and-running and online just after 10 seconds! And where does the IBM PureApplication System fit into this? We have it in the cloud as well! So you can easily build hybrid cloud using PureApplication technology on- and off-premise at the same time.

 

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What is the relationship between PureSystems, BlueMix, SoftLayer, DevOps, and Cloud Foundry?

18. Juli 2014 Posted by Yathish Kumar

(This is a guest entry posted on behalf of Romeo Kienzler)

I’ve been asked this question many times by clients so I thought I’ll give a brief overview in this blogpost. In order to define relationships between these entities, I’ll first describe them briefly.

IBM PureSystems

PureSystems is called the “Expert Integrated Systems” because you don’t have to worry about configuration of nodes, storage, network, SAN and power anymore. Everything ships as an appliance and you only have to plug-in the power and network and you are ready to run. We have PureSystems on the IaaS (IBM PureFlex System), PaaS (IBM PureApplication System) and DbaaS (IBM PureData System) layers. These are meant for building private clouds in your data center.

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IBM SoftLayer

This is IBM’s IaaS public cloud offering. In contrast to competition, IBM provides bare metal nodes and bare metal network components (routers, firewalls) in addition to the virtualized infrastructure components. All network traffic within the worldwide SoftLayer backbone is for free, so data center failover and real 24/7 SLA’s are now available not only for the financial service clients, but for everybody!

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Cloud Foundry

I think Google started with the idea of a scalable component cloud called AppEngine. This idea has been picked up by Amazon with Beanstalk. These offerings are very innovative, but they lack one key aspect. They lock you into their middleware. So you cannot use common open and closed source application middleware and services (e.g. TOMCAT, PHP, MySQL, etc.). Therefore Cloud Foundry has been invented as open standard to build PaaS clouds and every application running on a Cloud Foundry compliant cloud can be migrated easily to other cloud service providers.

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IBM Bluemix

Bluemix is IBM’s PaaS Cloud offering using Cloud Foundry and running on OpenStack/SoftLayer. In addition to Cloud Foundry, command line tools and Eclipse plugins, Bluemix also provides a Web Management console for managing application and services in Cloud Foundry running on Bluemix. And, of course, in addition to IBM supported open source runtimes and services you have the choice of the full IBM software portfolio. Also, in case you want to use a DB2 BLU Data Warehouse accelerator over a MySQL or PostgreSQL, you can do this with just a few mouse clicks!

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DevOps

DevOps means Development and Operations, and when written in this way, it means a system that facilitates and connects development and operation tasks together, especially things like continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment in conjunction with defect and change request management provides an easy and agile way to adapt this process to your application. Google and Facebook are deploying multiple production releases per day. With DevOps services in Bluemix, you can do the same now, even without installing any tool locally if you don’t want to.

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So now we know the basics, let’s put this together:

You have your idea. Using your favourite runtime (WebSphere, Tomcat, PHP, Node.js, Ruby, etc.) and your favourite services (MySQL, PostgreSQL, DB2, message queues, etc.) just go to hub.jazz.net to use the Bluemix DevOps services and deploy it on the fly in the Eclipse Orion based IDE directly to Bluemix. And guess what, it is up-and-running and online just after 10 seconds! And where does the IBM PureApplication System fit into this? We have it in the cloud as well! So you can easily build hybrid cloud using PureApplication technology on- and off-premise at the same time.

 

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IBM Flex System Kundenbeispiele – Der zuverlässige Infrastrukturbaustein für Cloud

29. Mai 2014 Posted by Yathish Kumar

(This is a guest entry posted on behalf of Marcus Alexander Mac Dougall)

Immer mehr Kunden entscheiden sich für das IBM Flex System als Infrastrukturbaustein ihrer Cloud-Umgebungen.

Die Gründe liegen auf der Hand:

  1. Vom ultrakompakten x222 Serverknoten bis hin zum High-End-Boliden x880 deckt das Serverblade-Portfolio des Flex Systems alle denkbaren Anforderungen von Workloads im x86-Umfeldes innerhalb eines skalierbaren Chassis ab
  2.  Neben x86-Workloads können können gleichzeitig Power-Workloads gefahren werden, egal ob unter AIX, Power i oder Power Linux
  3. Kunden haben die Wahl, das Flex System als traditionelle Infrastruktur oder als Converged System zu betreiben. Sie können sogar von der traditionellen Infrastruktur in eine converged Lösung hinwachsen, wann immer sie das wünschen

Diese Vorteile haben zum Beispiel Merkl IT, einen Managed Service Provider (MSP) aus München überzeugt. Merkl IT betreibt für Unternehmen, Gewerbetreibende und Freiberufler mit dem Virtual BackOffice eine hochverfügbare IT-Infrastruktur, bestehend aus ausgereiften Applikationen und Diensten. Zudem bietet Merkl IT seinen Kunden ein breites Spektrum an professionellen Dienstleistungen zum Management von Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie.

Der Wettbewerb im Cloud-Markt hat sich in den letzten Jahren verschärft. Das liegt zum einen daran, daß immer mehr neue Wettbewerber in diesen Markt drängen aber auch daran, daß traditionelle IT-Dienstleister sich seit einiger Zeit auf diesen Bereich konzentrieren. Merkl IT hat sich entschieden, sich in diesem harten Umfeld durch herausragenden Kundendienst zu differenzieren, der nun auch ein Endkunden-Helpdesk für alle Endgeräte umfasst.

Dies konnte Merkl IT bei unveränderter Personaldecke nur erreichen, indem Wege gefunden wurden, die IT Manschaft von alltäglichen Administrationsaufgaben zu entlasten. Mit den neuen Flex Systemen von IBM hat Merkl IT die Möglichkeit, noch mehr Leistung bereitzustellen und gleichzeitig verringert sich der Aufwand für Wartung, Management und Überwachung der Systeme. So können mit dem IBM Flex Enterprise Chassis über 42 TB Arbeitsspeicher pro Rack betrieben werden. Die Plattform bietet zudem höchste Flexibilität bei der Wahl von Prozessoren, Speicher- oder Netzwerkkomponenten.

Der Verkabelungsaufwand reduzierte sich um 80% und Systeme für Endkunden können im Vergleich zur bisherigen Lösung doppelt so schnell provisioniert werden. So kann Merkl IT schneller auf Kundenanforderungen reagieren und damit den Service für ihre Kunden weiter verbessern.

Dies ist ein gutes Beispiel dafür, wie IBM PureFlex und IBM Flex Systeme einen nachvollziehbaren und quantifizierbaren Mehrwert liefern, der letztlich für unsere Kunden in Wettbewerbsvorteilen münden kann.

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Isolation and multi-tenancy in the IBM PureApplication System – Cloud Groups are the NEW Virtual Systems

9. April 2014 Posted by Yathish Kumar

(This is a guest entry posted on behalf of Georg Ember)

Almost any application running in the cloud is designed to share resources. Virtualization is the key enabler for cloud computing in integrated or converged systems. Applications run in the cloud as workloads that share system resources, such as CPU, memory and networking.  However, there are legal or organizational requirements where workloads must be isolated from each other and the key question is: What type of isolation is the right way to protect the application environments from each other?

Isolation (also as know as multi-tenancy) is a key requirement for cloud computing. An application deployed into a cloud environment must be able to run independently and separately from other applications in the cloud. Each application requires it to move traffic along the network and protect its data as well.

Isolation of applications and data, by physical separation or by virtualization within an integrated system, may satisfy security requirements and ensure that a failure of one application will not cause the failure of other applications. While the data has to be kept isolated, in many cases, other departments within a company are not allowed to see deployed resources (Virtual Machines) of other environments.

An ideal solution to implement such an application and virtual systems isolation is to exploit the multi-tenancy features of the IBM PureApplication System.

A comfortable and easy way to isolate LAN, SAN and Server resources, on a physical as well as a logical level in PureApplication System, is to use the concept of Cloud Groups and environment profiles.

Using the isolation techniques that are incorporated within the IBM PureApplication System can help minimize business risks and increase the availability. By selecting nodes to Cloud Groups which are placed in separate chassis modules, the performance and availability of a Cloud Group can be greatly increased.

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If you are required to isolate applications and data not only on a logical level, the concept of Cloud Groups in the PureApplication Systems is the right choice for you. You do not need to acquire multiple physical systems, except for high availability or disaster recovery reasons, when you need to separate multiple application environments in a multi-tenant infrastructure. PureApplication System offers the concept of dedicated Cloud Groups.

IBM PureApplication System Cloud Groups physically separate:

  • Compute Nodes (server nodes), across IBM Flex Chassis,
  • LANs by defining VLANs (on dedicated LAN ports) and IP groups (IP address ranges),
  • Services running on the System (so called shared services), each Cloud Group can have “private” services running, without affecting other Cloud Groups. Examples of shared services are monitoring, OS updates, Load Balancers and clustered file systems services, just to name a few.
  • Workload (deployment) users, where each user belongs to one or more environment profiles, can deploy an application to the designated Cloud Group, without seeing other deployed resources from other users or being seen by other users on the Cloud Groups.

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Companies normally separate environments according to application development lifecycle. The typical divisions are:

  • Development (DEV): An environment used for developing applications.
  • Testing (TEST): Used for testing applications.
  • Production (PROD): Used for running applications; this is the realm of business or end users.

Each of these environments typically runs on totally independent sets of hardware and networks to avoid cross-environment issues. But, when using Cloud Groups in the PureApplication System, application environments are totally isolated from each other, if required, even by the users and shared services they use. Consecutively, you do not need to acquire multiple physical systems – one PureApplication System does it all for isolation of application environments. There is full isolation and protection in any layer of the stack.

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CeBIT Highlights from Day 4: Mobile, Security and Product Innovation.

14. März 2014 Posted by Yathish Kumar

(This is a guest entry posted on behalf of Georg Ember)

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The fourth day at CeBIT was sprinkled with some amazing sessions from industry experts as well as technology evangelists.

One session which many visitors looked forward to, without a doubt, was the session by Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak (“The Woz”). The session was so packed that visitors sat on the floor to listen to the great IT icon! Wozniak spoke about more than a dozen topics varying from big data to new technology and mobile to security.

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Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak and Moderator Brent Goff

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Jam packed crowd for Wozniak’s session!

IBM PureSystems at CeBIT:

Many clients visited the IBM PureApplication and PureData Systems demo points and showed increased interest in –

  • Industry solutions like insurance applications on PureApplication System (IBM Insurance Operations of the future, IBM IOF or LifeFactory by COR&FJA)
  • Analytics solutions for risk management for banking (IBM Cognos BI and IBM ODM)
  • Product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions

While many applications in IOF and PLM are running successfully on Websphere Application Server and DB2, the benefit of using this application environment on PureApplication System is huge. Since IBM PureApplication System completely deploys the underlying middleware automatically under the covers by using Middleware patterns, clients can easily install their IOF or PLM applications based on the deployed middleware very quickly.

In general, any application environment that requires multiple middleware products, either from IBM or non-IBM (WebSphere, MQ, Apache, Tibco, TDS MSAD, IIS, etc.) or open source (mySQL, Tomcat, JBOSS, LAMP stack, OpenLDAP, Nagios, etc.), will certainly benefit from PureSystems Patterns.

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Even if users do not have a ready application pattern, they can start by deploying the middleware patterns and install the application on top of the deployed middleware pattern, semi-automatically. PureApplication System offers multiple patterns for middleware that is required to run modern web applications.

Clients are attracted by PureApplication and PureData Systems because of the benefits from the flexibility of PureApplication and Pattern deployments.

To conclude, PureApplication and PureData Systems are all about quickly on-boarding applications, optimizing time to market, reducing IT operations costs and standardize IT processes for cloud computing.

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CeBIT Highlights from Day 3: Big Time on Big Data!

13. März 2014 Posted by Yathish Kumar

(This is a guest entry posted on behalf of Georg Ember)

Third day at the event was packed with sessions focusing on Big Data, and thought leaders from Fortune 500 companies noted this as an investment for the present and the future. One of the interesting facts to be noted from the sessions was that Indian companies are now pushing Science and Mathematics education in Europe and the US to fill the gap in engineering graduates in Europe. Kurt N. Rindle (Cloud Portfolio Leader - Germany, Austria, Switzerland, IBM Deutschland GmbH) took a session on “Cloud as a growth engine for business. - Think it. Build it. Tap into it.”

IBM PureSystems at CeBIT:

PureSystems booth was also witness to some very fascinating conversations. Visitors were interested in learning how to replace their old legacy SUN Solaris infrastructure with IBM PureApplication and IBM PureData Systems. They also wanted to know how to migrate their existing data warehouse environments with Cognos, InfoSphere and Oracle Databases onto the IBM PureApplication System.

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Standing tall with Infrastructure in IBM Exhibition Area!

PureApplication Patterns is a huge differentiator to competitive converged systems with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and IBM offers real Platform as a service (PaaS) on PureApplication System and SoftLayer.

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Visitors showed remarkable interest in the combination of PureApplication System and SoftLayer, and the capability to expand private cloud into a hybrid cloud on SoftLayer. IBM Patterns that have been created or imported into the PureApplication System can also be exported from the PureApplication System and then imported and deployed into SoftLayer.

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Database consolidation on the PureApplication System for hundreds of small and medium databases running on Linux or Windows offers clients numerous options to standardize their database landscapes. IBM offers patterns for DB2 LUW, Informix, MS SQL Server, Oracle, mySQL and Sybase on the PureApplication System.

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Advanced Monitoring and Systems Management features like storage optimization, license monitoring, response time tracking, automated scaling of memory and CPU, as well as various high availability features make PureApplication System the preferred integrated system for consolidating a large numbers of database instances, while using homogeneous management features.

Not able to attend the event? You can follow the event live here! Missed the live stream? Do not worry, you can find the recordings here!

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IBM hat X6 angekündigt und gleichzeitig die auf dieser Technologie basierenden Flex Knoten.

12. März 2014 Posted by Yathish Kumar

(This is a guest entry posted on behalf of Marcus Alexander Mac Dougall)

Doch was bedeutet eigentlich X6?

X6 ist die 6. Generation von IBMs Enterprise X-Architecture (EXA). Seit mehr als zehn Jahren hat sich IBM mit dieser Technologie im x86 Umfeld  klar vom Wettbewerb differenziert, ob es nun der erste x86 Server war der bereits 2001 auf bis zu 16 Prozessoren skaliert werden konnte oder der erste x86 Server der mehr als eine million Transaktionen im TPC-C Benchmark lieferte (2007), oder aber die Tatsache, daß IBM mit EXA erstmals eine technische Hürde durchbrach die 30 Jahre lang bestand gehabt hatte nämlich die physische Entkoppelung des Hauptspeichers vom Prozessor. Mit jeder neuen EXA Generation haben IBM Ingenieure die Möglichkeiten des x86 Servers revolutioniert und erweitert.

X6 wird diese Tradition von Innovationen im x86 Umfeld fortführen. Alle X6 Produkte wurden Entwickelt um höchste Performance sowie optimale Wirtschaftlichkeit zu liefern und das besonders in Cloud und Business Analytics Umgebungen.

Für das Flex Systems bedeutet diese Ankündigung einen wichtigen Schritt nach vorne, da es nun innerhalb eines Chassis die gesamte Bandbreite des IBM X86 Portfolios abdecken kann; von der Entry x220 über das 'double dense' x222 Blade und die (nun Ivybridge) EP basierenden x240 und die x440 bis hin zur x880 auf Basis von Ivybridge EX.

Doch die X880 mit X6 Technologie ist mehr als ein auf Intels leistungsstärksten CPUs basierendes Blade. Es ist ein Infrastrukturbaustein innerhalb der Flex Familie der größte Flexibilität und Skalierbarkeit bietet.  Die X880 skaliert von zwei über vier auf bis zu acht Ivybridge CPUs. Und jeder 2-Wege Knoten kann bis zu 3TB an Hauptspeicher verwalten.

Die X880 unterstützt eXFlash Memory .. ?  twice „Memory“ ...Memory-Channel Storage und damit dreimal soviel skalierbaren Speicher wie unser Wettbewerb. Noch wichtiger aber: bei gleichzeit geringster Latenz nämlich 86% geringer als sogar bei einer SSD und bis zu 4.8 Millionen IOPS. Es werden einfach sogenannte Flash DIMMs mit 200 oder 400GB pro Stück in freie DIMM Slots gesteckt!

Dies eröffnet für Analytics Anwendungen vollkommen neue Möglichkeiten bei optimierten Kosten. Auch in VM oder VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) Umgebungen läßt sich die VM bzw. Virtual Desktop Dichte um Größenordnungen erhöhen.

Zunächst werden wir folgende fertige und durchzertifizierte Lösungen auf Basis der X6 Technologie anbieten:

  • X6 für SAP HANA
  • X6 für VMware vCloud Suite
  • X6 für DB2 with BLU Acceleration

Damit unterstreichen wir eindrucksvoll, daß wir die beste Infrastruktur für die Workloads von heute und morgen zur Verfügung stellen und unseren Kunden helfen, das Beste aus ihren Anwendungen herauszuholen.

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CeBIT Highlights from Day 2: Cloud, Mobile, Big Data, Cognitive Computing and more.

12. März 2014 Posted by Yathish Kumar

(This is a guest entry posted on behalf of Georg Ember)

The second day of CeBIT saw interesting conversations from thought leaders in the IT industry. The general session topics on Day 2 ranged from “The ecosystem of the cyber-jungle” to “The Mobile Mind Shift.” All the sessions had a packed audience who were proactively involved in the conversations.

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IBM in General Session:

Dr. Kristof Kloeckner, General Manager at IBM Software Group, gave an insightful overview on the topic of "Building a Smarter Enterprise - Preparing for the challenges of the next decade with Cloud, Mobile, Big Data and Cognitive Computing." Dr. Kristof explained how companies are becoming smarter through the use of modern software and offering more services to the customers.

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IBM PureSystems at CeBIT:

Visitors at the IBM Exhibition Area on Tuesday showed a lot of interest in Big Data and IBM PureData System, Analytics and Application Consolidation, among others. Marie Wieck, General Manager of Application and Integration Middleware at IBM, visited the IBM PureSystems demo points and was very impressed by our demonstrations.

I demoed multiple Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) features of IBM PureApplication and PureData Systems, including Monitoring for Databases using IBM Tivoli Monitoring and IBM InfoSphere Optim Performance Manager. We also demonstrated the hot-plug and high availability capabilities of the designated hardware components.

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Clients visiting the IBM Booth were keen to learn the hardware details and key differences between the family members of IBM PureSystems.

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IBM PureSystems expert Markus Keppeler demonstrated the value of IBM PureApplication System, in terms of overall scalability and pattern flexibility. Markus also showed demos of the German independent software vendor (ISV) COR&FJA to various insurance clients who visited our booth.

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The action-packed day at CeBIT concluded with “Top Treff,” an invitation-only event, hosted by IBM for its clients.

Do not forget to check back tomorrow for another recap from the event. Check out the tips below to stay connected on social media at CeBIT 2014:

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CeBIT Highlights: Germany and United Kingdom to lead the next digital revolution

11. März 2014 Posted by Yathish Kumar

(This is a guest entry posted on behalf of Georg Ember)

CeBIT 2014 in a nutshell = 140 international speakers + 70 hours of top quality content + 1500 speeches, seminars, forums, workshops + 3400 exhibitors from 70 countries

German Chancellor Angel Merkel and British Prime Minister David Cameron kicked off the annual CeBIT event in Hanover, Germany on March 9, 2014. PM David Cameron promoted UK’s technology and innovation sector to over 2,500 industry representatives for the next digital revolution.

While the event had a record number of visitors on Day 1 (March 10), compared to last year, the enthusiasm was greater than ever for this year’s sessions. “Datability” is the main theme this year, with companies majorly focusing on Cloud, Big Data and Analytics, among others.

IBM at CeBIT 2014 (Hall 2, booth A10)

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Red Bull F1 Racing Car at IBM Booth

German Chancellor Angel Merkel visited the IBM exhibition area on Day 1 and was very impressed by IBM's capabilities to analyze big data. Data Security and data privacy is also one of the biggest challenges and concern, she said in her opening speech.

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German Chancellor Angel Merkel at IBM Booth

General session on “Connected Cars - Connected Industries: The Collaboration between Continental and IBM” had a packed audience and was live streamed online. Ralf Lenninger (Senior Vice President Interior Electronics Solutions, Continental Automotive GmbH) and Dirk Wollschläger (General Manager Global Automotive Industry, IBM Deutschland GmbH) discussed the capabilities of IBM’s Big Data solutions and how it is helping Continental innovate in the automotive industry.

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IBM’s PureSystems booth saw heavy footfalls on Day 1, which included international visitors from China, Russia, Spain, UK and Czech Republic. A lot of interest around IBM’s Expert Integrated Systems was noted at the event. We highlighted the capabilities of IBM PureData System, in terms of massively parallel IO, for Big Data. We also demonstrated how to quickly deploy Web Applications on IBM PureApplication System by using software defined Patterns. Monitoring and Systems Management were frequently asked with primary focus on the Maintenance features.

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We are looking forward to demonstrating the business value and product excellence of IBM PureSystems to many visitors from all around the world. We also have a large variety of Patterns to be demonstrated, which include Cognos BI, SAP, BP, Portal, Mobile (Worklight), among others.

We are also presenting client references and co-hosting two booths with business partners from Germany: CORFJA (with Life Factory) and ICON (with Dopix).

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Today (On Day 2), we expect more visits from clients who want to see BI solutions on the IBM PureApplication and PureData System like Cognos BI, Operational Analytics and Data Mart consolidation. Let's get ready to rumble!

You can check out the IBM PureSystems Facebook Album for more pictures from the event.

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