1. IBM Systems and Technology Power Systems
Solution Brief
IBM Power Systems
Cloud Solutions
Enabling customers to move mission-critical
workloads to the cloud
The unprecedented interest and projected IT spend on cloud computing
Highlights: is coming from all types of organizations, businesses and governments
that are seeking to transform the way they deliver IT services and
● Improve performance and scalability by improve workload optimization so they can quickly respond to changing
optimizing workload based IT assets to
ensure the ideal elasticity of your cloud. business demands. Cloud computing can significantly reduce IT costs and
complexities while improving asset utilization, workload optimization and
● Enterprise quality of service (QOS) virtu-
service delivery.
alization provides the best foundation for
your cloud’s mission-critical applications.
Today’s IT Infrastructures face challenges on many levels; typically they:
● Automated management, provisioning
and optimization of your resources
ensure optimal utilization for ● Are composed of silos that lead to disconnected business and
changing demands. IT infrastructures
● Self-service portal and standardized
● Contain static islands of computing, which result in inefficiencies and
service catalog leverage the features of underutilized assets
your cloud to enable automated delivery ● Struggle with rapid data growth, regulatory compliance, integrity
of services without IT intervention.
and security
● Breadth of solutions to help customers at ● Face continuous rise of IT administration costs
any point in their cloud journey.
As a result of these challenges, organizations are demanding an IT infra-
structure and service delivery model that enables growth and innovation.
An effective cloud computing environment built with IBM Power
Systems™ cloud solutions helps organizations transform their data
centers to meet these challenges; it:
● Delivers integrated visibility, control, and automation across all business
and IT assets.
● Is highly optimized and scales IT up and down in line with
business needs.

2. IBM Systems and Technology Power Systems
Solution Brief
● Addresses the information challenge by delivering flexible and
secure access to data and mitigating risks.
● Utilizes flexible delivery models, automation and virtualiza-
tion to greatly simplify IT service delivery and provide
enterprise QOS capabilities including higher application
availability, improved performance, more scalability and
enterprise-class security.
Power Systems cloud solutions enable customers to build an
effective cloud computing environment, enabling organizations
to reduce IT costs, improve service delivery and enable
business innovation.
Power is cloud optimized
IBM Power Systems is uniquely suited for cloud environments,
with its industry-leading virtualization, enterprise-class security,
elastic scalability and reliability, availability and serviceability
(RAS) characteristics, enabling customers to move mission- Power is cloud optimized
critical workloads to the cloud.
workloads. Active Memory™ Expansion helps reduce memory
Cloud Foundation Solutions costs by enabling physical memory to be logically expanded up
Power is performance redefined enabling optimization of IT
to 100 percent for some workloads—such as SAP. ENERGY
resources and increased flexibility, a key for cloud computing.
STAR qualified POWER7 systems dynamically optimize
Based on the new POWER7® processor, Power Systems blades
energy use, which can save 83 percent on energy costs with
and servers are designed to achieve maximum performance for
28 percent more performance at a fraction of the price using a
both the system and its virtual machines. New Intelligent
single IBM Power 750 instead of a 64-core HP Integrity
Threads technology dynamically switches the processor thread-
Superdome. Power Systems with AIX® delivers the best RAS,
ing mode to deliver optimal performance for different work-
with 99.997 percent uptime (based on hours per year),
loads. TurboCore mode offers the option to optimize the
ten times better than x86 alternatives. Power Systems are
system for frequency and cache utilization delivering the
the first step in building the most optimized and secure
maximum per core performance for database and transaction
cloud environment.
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3. IBM Systems and Technology Power Systems
Solution Brief
Advanced virtualization is fundamental for cloud computing for Power Servers provides advanced physical and virtual server
and Power is virtualization without limits, enabling platform management with simple-to-use automated manage-
unprecedented consolidation of multiple workloads onto ment tools, including the cross-platform virtualization manage-
fewer systems, increasing server utilization and reducing cost, ment capability of IBM Systems Director VMControl™,
all while providing the enterprise QOS capabilities needed for and selected Tivoli® enterprise service management tools.
enabling mission-critical workloads to run in the cloud. VMControl complements PowerVM by providing automated
IBM PowerVM™ virtualization solutions enable you to virtual- virtualization management that minimizes time to provision
ize processor, memory and I/O resources to increase asset virtual machine images and enables management of pools of
utilization and reduce infrastructure costs, dynamically adjust systems. With platform management technologies on Power
server capability to meet changing workload demands and move Systems, businesses not only get a complete picture of their
running workloads between servers, with Live Partition systems and how well they are operating, but also the tools to
Mobility, maximizing availability and avoiding planned automatically deploy, optimize and maintain these systems at
downtime. PowerVM also makes more efficient use of system maximum effectiveness, energy efficiency and cost control.
resources and imposes a negligible impact on performance Power is management with automation and as part of a
because PowerVM is built directly into the firmware of all cloud environment delivers further optimization of
Power Systems servers, as opposed to x86-based virtualization IT resource utilization and increased flexibility while reducing
products such as VMware vSphere, which are typically third- IT cycle times, improving service delivery and lowering
party software add-ons that are sold and installed separately. management costs.
Being part of the firmware also means PowerVM is secure by
design, with zero Common Vulnerabilities Exposures versus the Entry Cloud Solutions
over 200 reported for VMware in the US Government NIST IBM Starter Kit for Cloud is an entry private cloud offering
Database against the hypervisor. PowerVM provides a secure that is simple to deploy and easy to use. It works with a client’s
and scalable virtualization environment built upon the advanced existing Power Systems infrastructure, enabling data center
RAS features and leading performance of the Power Systems managers to quickly deploy self-service provisioning of
platform. This leadership virtualization provided by PowerVM virtualized workloads with a simple interface that provides
as part of a cloud environment enables organizations to more oversight while increasing IT efficiency and lowering
efficiently utilize IT resources, reduce hardware costs through administration costs.
economy of scale and provide the enterprise QOS capabilities
needed to support their mission-critical workloads. Starter Kit for Cloud is a solution that builds upon
IBM PowerVM virtualization and IBM Systems Director
Automated management and provisioning of resources enable VMControl, with support for virtualized AIX and Linux
IT to reduce cycle times, improve service delivery and lower workloads. It enables rapid scalability by allowing additional
management costs. IBM Systems Director Enterprise Edition servers or blades to be added to the cloud infrastructure. It also
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4. IBM Systems and Technology Power Systems
Solution Brief
includes basic workload metering to support a “pay-per-use”
business model. Clients can also progress from Starter Kit for
Cloud to IBM’s more advanced cloud offerings such as
IBM Service Delivery Manager. Starter Kit for Cloud allows Quick Start Services
Power Systems clients to quickly and easily start the transition
Service Management Platform
to a cloud-based infrastructure and prove the benefits of a cloud
delivery model.
Systems and Virtualization
Management Software
Advanced Cloud Solutions
IBM Service Delivery Manager for Power Systems is a Virtualized CPU, Memory,
preconfigured and integrated service management software Network & Storage
stack built on IBM’s market leading operating system AIX and
designed to reduce the risk associated with software integration Server, Network &
Storage Hardware
and accelerate delivery of private cloud computing capabilities.
It provides a self-service user interface for improved responsive-
ness and efficiency to service requests and automate IT resource
deployment to maximize efficiency and address fluctuating busi-
ness requirements. IBM Service Delivery Manager for Power
Systems enables clients to leverage their existing infrastructure
components as the basis for their cloud environment, reducing IBM CloudBurst—An integrated cloud solution for the fastest private
cloud deployment
costs and improving time to value.
IBM CloudBurst™ on Power Systems is a prepackaged and service management capabilities such as seamless self-service,
self-contained service delivery platform that can be easily and automated provisioning and automation templates with built-in
quickly implemented in a data center environment. It allows the best practices to deliver an integrated cloud environment with
data center to accelerate the creation of a private cloud environ- intelligent provisioning of cloud resources. IBM CloudBurst on
ment for a wide spectrum of workload types with a high degree Power Systems provides everything you need for a cloud
of integration, flexibility, and resource optimization all while environment including Tivoli service management software,
providing an enhanced request-driven user experience to aid the storage, network, QuickStart services and the most efficient
effort in driving down costs and accelerating time to market for platform for cloud computing with Power Systems, enabling
the business. IBM CloudBurst on Power Systems couples the customers to rapidly realize the benefits of cloud computing.
industrial-strength virtualization of Power Systems with Tivoli
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5. IBM Systems and Technology Power Systems
Solution Brief
Power Systems cloud solutions To learn more about automated management, visit:
Power Systems cloud solutions enable customers to build an http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/
effective cloud computing environment, enabling organizations management/enterprise.html
to reduce IT costs, improve service delivery and enable business
innovation, with QOS capabilities that are: To learn more about IBM Starter Kit for Cloud, visit:
http://w3-03.sso.ibm.com/sales/support/information/stg/#tab13
● Secure for isolated multi-tenancy of virtual servers
● Scalable for your smallest to largest workloads To learn more about IBM Service Delivery manager, visit:
● Dynamic for automated, optimum resource allocation and http://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/
superior economics service-delivery-manager/
● Reliable for high qualities of service across the cloud
To learn more about Common Vulnerabilities Exposures, visit:
For more information http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/search
To learn more about the IBM Power Systems cloud solutions,
please contact your IBM marketing representative or To learn more about IBM CloudBurst on Power Systems, visit:
IBM Business Partner, or visit the following website: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/solutions/cloud/
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/solutions/cloud/ cloudburst/index.html
index.html
Additionally, financing solutions from IBM Global Financing
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on investment. Also, our Global Asset Recovery Services
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