It’s time for IT infrastructures built for cloud, data and engagement

Almost 90 percent of large organizations believe that IT infrastructure enables business strategy and drives business results. While most organizations today maintain their own set of tools and skills to keep IT infrastructure up and running, others need technology partners to deal with the pressure of driving down escalating maintenance and administration costs. Organizations that are unable to support in-house IT infrastructure are forced to answer a few questions before making the right choice:

  • How can IT companies provide efficient support for internal and external clients?
  • How does IT help in enhancing customer satisfaction?
  • How can business professionals secure applications and store business data safely?

To get the right answers, organizations need to overcome the challenges in order to ensure excellence in every aspect of functioning. And it’s clear that many organizations are now looking at IT infrastructure management as a means to drive business transformation.

Beginning today, at the IBM Enterprise2014 Global Conference at the Venetian in Las Vegas, we will highlight how organizations meet these challenges with effective solutions to manage their IT infrastructures. We are making exciting announcements that address the needs, challenges and opportunities organizations face in the midst of ever-growing market changes. We’re bringing together industry-leading expertise for the best enterprise-class infrastructure for cloud, big data and analytics capabilities.

Join us for the Livestream of the event on October 6 and 7 as IBM announces new systems designed for big data and analytics that deliver superior hybrid cloud capabilities and accelerate innovation.  Join us to learn how to:

Build an analytics infrastructure that ensures “right time” decisions

IDC projects that there will be a 300x growth of digital content between 2005 to 2020 – resulting in 40 zettabytes of data in 2020. As new sources of data continue to grow in volume, variety and velocity, so too does their potential to revolutionize the decision-making processes in every industry—if organizations can analyze it all, extract insight and secure it. By tapping into IBM’s latest big data and analytics announcements, you can:

  • Infuse analytics into everyday decision-making: IBM Power Systems E870 and E880 Enterprise servers support bigger data demands and consolidate larger databases “in memory” with up to 16 terabytes of memory
  • Accelerate business applications: IBM Power Systems S824L scale-out server delivers 8x query acceleration for Java applications
  • Deliver insights at the speed of business: System z Hybrid Transaction Analytics Processing capabilities deliver response times up to 9x faster, with 10x better price performance and 14 percent lower TCA than the closest competitor
  • Grab the microsecond advantage: IBM FlashSystem V840 Enterprise Performance Solution provides up to 2x improved performance for data reduction when compared to previous generation

Deploy open hybrid cloud infrastructures to embrace new workloads and support changing business needs

According to Gartner, nearly half of enterprises will have hybrid cloud deployments by the end of 2017. IBM has been named a leader in hybrid cloud engagement in a market analysis of public, private and hybrid IaaS and PaaS for the first quarter of 2014.

In February 2014, IBM announced that is investing $1 billion on BlueMix PaaS to bring enterprise developers into the hybrid cloud era (Bluemix became generally available in the second quarter of 2014). With our new open hybrid cloud infrastructure announcements, you can:

  • Store data in the cloud: Up to 80 percent less space with 2x faster SVC and Storwize Real-time Compression
  • Improve infrastructure agility to drive growth: IBM Cloud Manager with Openstack v4.2 delivers simple to use, easy to deploy private/hybrid management solutions reducing cloud infrastructure deployment time by 76 percent
  • Scale data agility without barriers: Elastic Storage software-defined storage reduces costs by 80 percent with improved operational efficiency and global sharing

Organizations across the globe rely on IBM infrastructure capabilities to drive real-time insights, share information and ensure secure transactions all while improving the economics of IT.

Why wouldn’t you?

I invite you to part of this unique opportunity to find out how employing new technologies enable you to accelerate business growth.  Whether you join us in person or via Livestream, we look forward to your participation.  Be sure to join the #IBMEnterprise conversation on social, and leave a comment or ask an IT infrastructure question.

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Jacqueline Woods is the Global Vice President for Growth Solutions, IBM Corporation. In this role, she leads IBM’s Systems & Technology Group’s marketing strategies, plans and execution for Industries, Cloud, Analytics, Mobile, Social, and Security solutions. Connect with Jacqueline on Twitter: @JacWoods2020.