The more logical place to seek help when building out infrastructure is from a systems/software maker that has deep expertise in system design, middleware, infrastructure, operating environments, virtualization, consolidate, management and cloud design and delivery. IBM is one of the only vendors that can offer this kind of expertise. By virtue of developing its own complete infrastructure stack, compute/storage/-networking hardware, and its own management product offerings, IBM is one of the few vendors in the industry that can build a deeply integrated cloud environment that can offload its customers and ISV business partners from the complexities of infrastructure and application service deployment. IBM’s PureSystems have been designed specifically for these purposes.
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How IBM is Transforming the Application Software Market with Pre-Packaged Pure Systems
1. Research Report
How IBM Is Transforming the Application Software Market
with Pre-packaged PureSystems
Introduction
From our perspective, systems vendors and independent software vendors (ISVs) hold the keys to
simplifying cloud environments:
Systems vendors have the ability to apply deep expertise to build highly integrated
systems/storage/network/infrastructure/application/database environments. And,
ISVs have the ability to simplify application acquisition/adoption by enabling applications
to be deployed as cloud services; by simplifying application set-up; by simplifying testing;
and by simplifying the processes of updating and patching.
By using its vast, deep systems/software design talent — and by working closely with its ISV
partners — IBM has introduced a new, highly-integrated compute/storage/network/infrastructure
family of offerings designed to make it easy to deploy and tune applications for cloud architectures.
IBM calls these systems “IBM PureSystems” — and the first two members of this new family of
systems are:
1. IBM PureFlex Systems, an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution. This modular and
integrated platform can be configured in various ways (for instance, adding internal
storage, or more compute nodes, or adding a management node) to meet specific client
needs. Further, it enables ISVs to rapidly deploy their applications as “virtual appliances”
on prepackaged cloud infrastructure.
2. IBM PureApplication Systems, IBM’s PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) solution which is built
using the above mentioned IBM PureFlex Systems — but also includes a hardened set of
IBM middleware such as WebSphere and DB2 to provide a robust PaaS upon which ISVs
can deploy J2EE applications
In this Research Report, Clabby Analytics takes a closer look at the new IBMPureFlex System in
particular. And what we find is that IBMPureFlex Systems:
Have been built by engineers with deep expertise in systems design and infrastructure
integration. These systems have been tuned-to-the-extreme by experts.
Offer a new, integrated and modular system/subsystem, application and cloud provisioning
facilities, and greatly simplified management. Together, these elements streamline cloud
deployment and management, off-loading ISV and customers from having to deal with
infrastructure and management complexities —thus accelerating client time-to-value; And,
Provide ISVs with access to new tools and utilities that can be used to create “virtual
appliances” that enable applications to be packaged for rapid customer delivery. Further,
IBM provides ISVs with no-fee assistance in building cloud-enabled applications under the
guidance of IBM’s “Virtual Appliance Factory”.
This report was developed by Clabby Analytics - with IBM assistance and funding. This report may utilize information, including
publicly available data, provided by various companies and sources, including IBM. The opinions are those of the report’s author, and do
not necessarily represent IBM’s position.