Category: Power at Work
Power at Work
IBM and the reverse-question quiz show Jeopardy! have cooked up an interesting new face-off: An IBM computing system named “Watson” will compete on Jeopardy! against the show’s two most successful and celebrated contestants -- Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Best yet, the multi-server Watson was built using IBM Power Systems.
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IBM continues to do well in Russia with Power Systems. The company has announced that two leading banks, Rosbank and Alfa-Bank, have selected IBM POWER7 Systems to manage millions of data-intensive transactions and analyze that data in real time, helping to improve customer service while reducing data center costs.
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In an effort to get ready for the company's hectic holiday sales rush,
Tupperware Australia has upgraded to a pair of IBM Power 750 servers, IBM is reporting. The new POWER7-based systems support Tupperware's web ordering system for more than 6,000 of its sales force, as well as its browser-based TupperNet system for 32 Australian and New Zealand distributors. The TupperNet system handles key business applications such as order processing, stock control, accounts, and reporting. Crucially, it will accommodate the company's frenetic peak sales periods leading up to Christmas and Mother's Day, as well as anticipated future business growth, IBM says.
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All around the world, IBM is continuing its relentless attack on the competition's UNIX servers: The company reports that Russian pharmaceutical distributor
PROTEK has switched to IBM POWER7 systems for its data processing center. The new systems from IBM replace the previous servers from HP, enabling PROTEK to improve the performance of critical business applications while reducing power consumption and increasing return on investment.
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The first ever
Power IT Pro Virtual Conference is set to deliver an astounding amount of information in one jam-packed day. With
seven sessions designed to get at the heart of the hottest topics in the industry, the crew here at Power IT Pro are looking forward to November 16 when we get to share it all -- free!
Ever wonder how IBM's PowerVM actually stacks up against the likes of VMware vSphere on x86-based servers?
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Bunnings, a leading home improvement and outdoor living retailer in Australia and New Zealand, has selected two POWER7-based IBM Power 780 systems, running AIX, to support its plans for rapid business growth across the region.
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IBM has expanded its CloudBurst family of private cloud appliances to include a new POWER7-based unit, as well as offer the brains of CloudBurst as a software solution capable of installation on a company's currently installed system. IBM's previous CloudBurst solution was x86 for IBM BladeCenter, but this new POWER7 option, IBM CloudBurst v2.1 on Power Systems, is based on IBM Power 750 servers.
The "appliance" can support from 160 up to 2,900 virtual machines and securely keep the data in those applications separate. The operating systems that run on POWER7, of course, are AIX, IBM i, and Linux. Incidentally, IBM estimates that private clouds built on Power systems can be up to 70 percent less expensive than stand alone x86 servers.
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IBM is reporting that its IBM Power 795 has achieved the highest result ever published on the two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) standard application benchmark -- with a result of 70,032 SAP SD benchmark users. IBM boasts that its 128-core Power 795 handled 79 percent more users than a 256-core Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 (Oracle's largest system), and 75 percent more users than the 128-core Oracle parallel result published in September running four clustered 32-core Sun Fire X4470 servers with Intel's Xeon X7560 chip.
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Ansell Healthcare, a provider of surgical, examination, industrial and household gloves, as well as protective clothing and related products, has awarded Connectria Hosting a multi-year Data Center Outsourcing contract to manage Ansell’s information technology infrastructure. Connectria will assume operational support for the information technology functions that support Ansell’s complex environment of mission critical AIX, iSeries, and VMWare technologies.
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Geminare Incorporated has announced new enterprise editions of its Recovery as a Service (RaaS) portfolio. With Cloud Recovery 2.0 Enterprise and Cloud Storage Assurance (CSA) 2.0 Enterprise, Geminare's business continuity solution includes automatic file and email archiving, and fast search functions and built-in audit capabilities that Geminare says can be deployed in days instead of months and without capital investment.
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