1) The IBM PureApplication System allows organizations to consolidate multiple applications onto a single system, automating maintenance tasks and enabling up to 70% of IT budgets to be refocused on innovation. 2) It provides pre-configured application patterns that optimize hardware, software, and resources, reducing provisioning time from months to hours and increasing performance up to 300%. 3) New applications can be tested and deployed quickly using consistent patterns, compressing development cycles by 30x and reducing costs up to 55%. This accelerates organizations' ability to innovate.

1. IBM Systems & Technology
Shifting IT focus from
maintenance to innovation
Using the IBM PureApplication System and patterns of expertise
for consolidation, optimization, innovation and cloud acceleration

2. Shifting IT focus from maintenance to innovation
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Introduction
At many companies today, 70 percent of IT competitiveness. IBM has found early
budgets—or more—go into maintenance adopters of new technology are the
and operations.1 A large chunk of the organizations that assign more than half
remainder typically goes toward deploying their IT budgets to adding new applications
applications and configuring hardware and capabilities.2
for them. But what if you could manage
the entire solution stack as a single IT professionals know the focus of IT should
entity, automate most maintenance tasks be shifted from carrying maintenance “ T departments can
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burdens to cost-effectively accelerating
and deploy new applications in a matter
of hours? essential projects and responding to
save time and eliminate
business needs and market opportunities. risk while gaining an
You’d most likely be able to dedicate far But IT tasks such as application development,
more of your IT budget to innovation and management and maintenance aren’t going
efficient, repeatable
new capabilities. Your company could away. That’s why IBM has developed the deployment option.”
spend more time focused on increasing IBM® PureApplication™ System.
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IBM PureApplication System provides and maintain an application. IT departments
built-in, ready-to-use expertise can save time and eliminate risk while gaining
Many critical tasks related to application an efficient, repeatable deployment option
development, configuration and deployment that ensures configuration consistency.
are time-consuming and expensive, while
also requiring high skill levels and carrying Today, patterns are available for deploying
the risk of human error. But what if these web applications, databases and data marts, are the first family of expert-integrated
activities were contained within a modular and other middleware environments. More systems that automate most of the
pattern that automatically executed and than 100 other patterns are available from operations work needed for applications,
performed most of the required steps in independent software providers. They include hardware and data center infrastructure, as
these tasks? patterns for business process management, well as steps in the application development
portals, web content management, business and deployment process and cloud
That is exactly what the IBM PureApplication intelligence and more. adoption. Unlike other integrated systems
System is designed to do. IBM and appliances, the PureSystems family
PureApplication System environments IBM PureSystems™—including the IBM comes with the intelligence needed to
employ embedded patterns that deliver all PureApplication System, the IBM PureFlex™ handle most configuration, upgrade and
of the expertise needed to deploy, manage System and the IBM PureData™ System— maintenance tasks.
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With the IBM PureApplication System, to free IT staff to spend less time on rote Simplified IT with superior economics
applications can be dropped into a tasks and more time on activities that boost in four key areas
preconfigured middleware engine that competitiveness. For example, IT departments Using traditional product descriptions to
includes the IBM DB2® database and often schedule four to seven months to install, categorize the IBM PureApplication System
IBM WebSphere® application server. configure and roll out a new application is difficult, because the solution combines
The IBM PureApplication System also environment. With the IBM PureApplication so many critical functions. Features like
integrates multiple hardware and software System, this time frame can be compressed built-in intelligence, complete hardware
components, including a rack-based into as little as four hours—or less. and middleware integration, repeatable
server system. These components patterns and a simplified user experience
dynamically adjust to demand spikes and Nearly every part of the lifecycle for transform the experience and economics of
reallocate system resources automatically. applications and systems becomes faster IT. However, it’s not at all difficult to describe
Organizations can easily manage workloads and more efficient. The platform can self- the benefits of the IBM PureApplication
through a single management console. optimize for a variety of workloads and System. The system delivers simplified IT
even automate complex integration tasks with superior economics in four key areas:
Combining each of these components such as those required in data center consolidation, optimization, innovation and
results in a fully integrated platform designed consolidation initiatives. cloud acceleration.
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Consolidate
Complexity arising from mergers, acquisitions
and organic business growth is frequently
the root cause of high IT spending. Many
organizations today have a diverse array
of middleware and multiple development,
test and production environments, which
leads to inefficiencies. Simplifying these
environments is necessary for shifting IT
from maintenance organizations to engines
of innovation. applications and allowing IT to manage the IT infrastructure, but its small footprint
them all from a single console that includes doesn’t sacrifice performance. Hardware
With the IBM PureApplication System, over 140 different elements for firmware and software components are optimized for
a single system can replace dozens, updates. The IBM PureApplication System a variety of application workloads to deliver
concurrently supporting hundreds of reduces the physical space consumed by maximum performance and efficiency.
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The IBM PureApplication System also and a single management console for all At another organization, a data center
features an automation framework to: applications, which lets the administrator manager needed to consolidate critical
quickly set scaling and routing policies and applications onto a dense, highly redundant
• On-board and intelligently place existing service-level agreement (SLA) priorities. infrastructure to help reduce operating
applications, reducing the risk and cost of costs—often a multiyear process. But by
the consolidation For example, these capabilities could help using the IBM PureApplication System,
• Automatically scale applications and their an organization consolidate hundreds that manager can rely on a system that
underlying required resources as demands of Java applications by letting the IBM uses IBM’s collective knowledge about
change, eliminating the time and cost of PureApplication System take charge of integrating and tuning servers, storage,
provisioning resources for peak demands automatic provisioning and scaling. As a networking, virtualization and management
result, this organization could accurately to significantly optimize the environment
IT tasks are further simplified by IBM predict performance for each application, in weeks.
PureApplication System features such as as well as elastically scale to fulfill
an automated migration console (AMC) fluctuating workload demands.
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Optimize
In an ideal world, systems would dynamically And because the entire solution stack—
adjust to spikes in demand, and the right hardware, storage, middleware, application
resources for an application would be resources—is automatically optimized,
allocated immediately and automatically. applications are automatically allocated to
However, this ideal can be difficult to an appropriate resource within the overall
achieve. Updates and upgrades can trigger
planned and unplanned downtime, and
limitations of the infrastructure.
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are among the primary reasons why IBM PureApplication System patterns can
significantly simplify complex optimization
PureApplication System,
optimizing applications for an underlying
infrastructure requires a great deal of time tasks. Patterns are pre-optimized for a wide system updates are
and specialized skills. range of application types, as well as fixed
infrastructure and platform configurations.
automated, and most
With the IBM PureApplication System, Once a pattern is deployed, the IBM upgrades involve zero
system updates are automated, and
most upgrades involve zero downtime.
PureApplication System is automatically
optimized to run that pattern’s workloads.
downtime.”
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Top-to-bottom optimization of the entire Or an organization might choose dynamic The IBM PureApplication System also
solution stack accelerates the time-to-value scaling across all its applications and virtual optimizes data placement across hard-disk
of new applications and functionality, while machine resources. drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs)
also significantly increasing IT infrastructure based on real-time application data usage.
utilization. A single management console Elasticity is critical in ensuring that To provide optimal storage economics, the
provides visibility from the infrastructure performance meets SLA requirements solution moves frequently accessed data
up through the application layer to help when workloads grow or spike. Delivering from HDDs to faster SSDs. The results can
eliminate errors. scalability on demand is a key feature of be significant: at the application level, IBM
the IBM PureApplication System, and System Storage® Easy Tier® technology
IT organizations can select which business application-specific metrics guide the can deliver up to 341 percent more web
policies to apply to IBM PureApplication automated, dynamic reallocation of server input/output (I/O) per second,3
System optimizations. For example, one resources for each particular application. and the IBM PureApplication System has
company might choose to lower data When this occurs, IT managers can see been able to increase critical application
center energy use as a priority. Another real-time monitoring visualizations of performance by as much as 300 percent.4
might need to ensure a maximum two- the system and components such as
second response for its website application. applications and virtual machines.
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Innovate
Using the IBM PureApplication System, The IBM PureApplication System eliminates
developers can test new ideas quickly with many of these issues to speed development
ready-designed application environments, while reducing IT costs. By utilizing consistent
and speed time-to-market with features that patterns across development, test and
compress lead times. production environments, the system
helps reduce inconsistencies between
Innovation can be baked into existing test environments and speeds up development
and production environments. About one- iterations. IBM PureApplication System
third of IT projects are delivered late, patterns enable 30 times faster deployment As new applications roll out into production,
according to IBM and Forrester research. of environments and more rapid time-to-value. built-in workload management, integrated
Thirty percent of application errors result from system monitoring and maintenance can
inconsistencies between development, test Companies can deploy and optimally reduce operational costs by up to 55 percent,
and production environments. According to configure virtual application patterns on the enabling IT organizations to shift staff to more
a recent IBM survey, inefficient troubleshooting IBM PureApplication System in only a few strategic projects. Patterns of expertise
and tuning production environments clicks and use the best-practices deployment shaped by IT best practices and industry
contributed to 45 percent of delayed projects. topology codified in the patterns. These standards can automatically manage solution
Another 45 percent of projects were delayed capabilities not only speed time-to-market, but elements from the underlying hardware
by integration, testing and configuration also enable repeatable deployments across an resources up through the middleware
of infrastructure.5 organization’s multiple locations worldwide. and software.
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Accelerate cloud
Transitioning applications from traditional an application-aware cloud with expert
management environments to the public application patterns to users to achieve quick
cloud—and establishing new cloud-based time-to-value and reduce cost and risk.
capabilities—enables organizations to deliver Expert application patterns offered by IBM
IT as a service to employees and sometimes and IBM Business Partners are the basis
even customers worldwide. But companies for PaaS, dramatically reducing the effort
considering platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and expense required for deploying and
delivery often have concerns about: maintaining a private cloud.
• Time-consuming and error-prone software For example, organizations can use the IBM Integrated support for resource contention
license compliance Business Intelligence Pattern on the IBM is automated to help ensure the performance
• The need to quickly reconfigure applications PureApplication System to deploy business of the most critical applications. A company
in the cloud intelligence (BI) applications in an optimized, can port hundreds of applications to the
• Resource contention among users across fault-tolerant environment in minutes. Created cloud, and rely on the IBM PureApplication
hundreds of applications for deployment of IBM Cognos® BI software, System to track and manage all of the
the pattern reduces the time, effort and cost shared resources. Automated data
Organizations can use the IBM of building and deploying an enterprise-grade, governance policies help reduce
PureApplication System to rapidly deliver proven BI solution. compliance risk.
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Changing the economics of IT
The IBM PureApplication System is an With the IBM PureApplication System,
innovative new approach that greatly organizations can greatly accelerate the
reduces the time required to develop, shifting of IT resources—people and
configure, test and integrate applications. budgets—from management and
The system allows impressive efficiency maintenance burdens to strategic value-
gains and cost savings, including: adding activities. This platform can reduce
provisioning times from 45 days to minutes,
• Up and running in less than four hours6 require 47 percent fewer labor hours for
• Deploy a three-tier web application in application deployments, and 73 percent
under 15 minutes7
• Concurrent management of more than
fewer total IT management labor hours.10 “ he IBM PureApplication
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1,000 VMs on a single W1500-608 By providing patterns of expertise for System allows impressive
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• Up to 60 percent better price/performance cloud acceleration, the IBM PureApplication
efficiency gains and
running typical web and database System changes both the experience and cost savings.”
applications (over a competitor’s the economics of IT for the better.
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13. For more information
To learn more about the IBM PureApplication System, see your IBM representative or please visit:
ibm.com/puresystems/pureapplication
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