IBM Systems

GBM offers the broadest portfolio of industry-leading IBM system solutions, which will empower your IT infrastructure to deliver heterogeneous workloads built for the most demanding, data-intensive computing platforms.

IBM Z® and IBM Power Systems are the right infrastructure to transform your application and data portfolio with innovative data privacy, security, and cyber resiliency capabilities – all delivered through a hybrid cloud strategy.

GBM offers end-to-end solutions built on IBM systems that enable you to:

• Meet today’s security challenges

You can address these IT security challenges with a comprehensive yet simplified approach to security and compliance across the entire stack.

•  Build your seamless hybrid cloud for critical workloads  

Your organization must secure sensitive data and workloads, support new applications, and deliver consistency and simplicity across the enterprise.

• Have enterprise architected for the enterprise workloads

Deliver enterprise-class compute with the flexibility of hybrid cloud deployment of private & public.
IBM Systems has unmatched performance with the support for multi-way simultaneous multithreading versus two-way multithreading on commodity processors.

• Handle the world’s most data-intensive workloads

You can handle mission-critical SAP HANA, Big Data, and Cognitive workloads. Combine innovative blockchain and machine learning projects.

GBM has the right technologies and expertise. Whether you need server infrastructure capable of meeting the new intense AI processing demands and the security protection that pervasively encrypts all your data without slowing down the applications or the right balance of performance and agility.

IBM Z® — the platform of choice to reliably drive core business transactions — is your best investment for a cyber-resilient hybrid cloud that avoids single points of failure.

Designed for mission-critical applications, the enterprise platform brings next-level data privacy, security, and resiliency to your hybrid multi-cloud. IBM Z systems enable applications in any environment to utilize current development and delivery options, adding privacy, security, and resiliency to your workloads in the hybrid cloud

IBM Z® infrastructure solutions work together to optimize availability, keep your systems running, detect problems in advance and recover your critical data. Previewing the next-generation IBM Z® chip – the IBM Telum Processor. This chip contains a dedicated accelerator for AI, enabling in-transaction inference at speed and scale for real-time transaction workloads and other innovations crucial to IBM Z users.

Why IBM Z Systems and what business value can they deliver?

• Industry-leading resilient server

Achieve the highest service levels, recover applications and data without data loss, and defeat malware and ransomware with resilient IT infrastructure solutions. In addition, achieve high availability with Seven-nines. IBM Z solutions are designed for 99.99999% availability to support your most critical workloads to meet the most challenging business requirements while minimizing IT costs.

• Lowering Cost

IBM Z enables legacy and open environments to coexist on the same hardware platform so that businesses can streamline operations and optimize costs. As a result, IBM Z can provide a lower TCO than alternative scale-out solutions while enabling applications to exploit the latest development and delivery approaches on an enterprise-proven infrastructure.

• Privacy and security as never before

Protect against cyberattacks through isolation and Instant Recovery, reducing the impact of planned or unplanned downtime, data security, and privacy through pervasive encryption and Data Privacy Passports. IBM Z® is designed to protect your data and manage privacy by the policy. Encryption everywhere. Stop choosing what to encrypt. Encrypt faster and without app changes.

• AI and Analytics

Apply AI and open-source machine learning to data securely in place on IBM Z® so you can gain real-time insights.

• Cloud-native

Consistently develop, manage, and automate. Build and deploy AI-infused apps anywhere with Red Hat® and Cloud Paks®.

IBM LinuxONE is the most secure and scalable, enterprise-grade, open-source architecture built for the hybrid cloud. LinuxONE is a mainframe class IBM z-system that runs only Linux instead of IBM’s z/OS or z/VSE.
It is well known that all industries have already stepped into the Linux era, and most of the CIOs and I&Os (Infrastructure & Operations leaders) eyewitness this Linux revolution. Today, everybody is looking for an IT infrastructure ready to grow with the exponential growth in digital innovation and to support the expansion of new markets.

No other Linux servers on the planet are engineered like IBM LinuxONE – pervasive encryption, lightning speed, massive scalability, and great economics. In addition, it was recently sized to fit in any data center, whether you are Government, Bank, or Cloud service provider, with options tailored for small, medium, or enterprise corporations.

The exceptional benefits of LinuxONE can be summarized as follows:

• The most secure Linux server hardware in the world
• Highly engineered for high performance and large-scale data and cloud serving
• Provides the foundation for cloud-native applications and microservices
• Platforms that can run both Traditional and Open Source workloads
• Needs much less physical cores to do the same work with the x86/Intel server

Many vendors based their pricing on the software/core scheme, e.g., IBM, Oracle, and fewer cores are needed on LinuxONE, less software licenses are to be acquired, and consequently less subscription and less support costs to be paid.

Why run Oracle on LinuxONE?

LinuxONE delivers many benefits, in addition to its performance, when compared to an Oracle proprietary database system. Unfortunately, the proprietary system is designed to run Oracle Database software only, leading IT leaders to the “lock-in” strategy, an expensive and single-purpose appliance.

Here are some advantages of running oracle Database on LinuxONE:

• An open ecosystem of optimized solutions – Run RedHat, SuSE, Ubuntu Linux, Oracle Databases, and Open Source DB’s such as MongoDB, PostGreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB…all on the same system.
• Customizable – Choose server, network, and storage based on business needs.
• Storage Flexibility – Match with integrated or external storage of choice for an optimized solution.
• Unlimited Scalability – Start with one compute node and grow into multiple chassis as needed.
• Decrease the total cost of ownership.

Why run your private cloud on LinuxONE?

The new IBM LinuxONE is designed for the modern cloud data center, which meets the growing workload by unlocking additional capacity through the recent on-chip acceleration. In addition, this capability makes available other computing resources within IBM LinuxONE for defined workloads such as cryptography and compression.

IBM LinuxONE provides a cloud-native ecosystem for access and uses by Linux administrators, developers, and architects to access and use. Now can build, deploy, manage, orchestrate and automate applications and infrastructure on a system designed to be secure and resilient.

With IBM LinuxONE, you can confidently deliver new applications and services by embracing open-source tools and containerization. Red Hat® OpenShift® is available on IBM LinuxONE. OpenShift is a fully integrated platform-as-a-service supporting application built through to deployment. It combines the portability and agility of containers and Kubernetes with the security, scalability, and reliability

IBM Cloud Paks are also supporting the cloud-native experience on IBM LinuxONE. IBM Cloud Paks are enterprise-ready containerized software solutions built on Red Hat OpenShift and help you quickly develop core business applications on the IBM LinuxONE infrastructure in the cloud. In addition, IBM LinuxONE supports the whole cloud-native experience to help you transform and innovate through faster and more effective application development and deployment.

Get the enhanced security, improved reliability, and high-performance AI that you need for an effective Enterprise hybrid cloud strategy.

The Power10 series benefits from the pedigree of its predecessors, offering superior TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) and ROI (Return on Investment). Built around the new 7nm Power10 processor, each server delivers 3.2x transactions per second against comparable x86/Intel systems.

Supporting a variety of proven, reliable, and scalable operating systems – AIX, IBM i, RedHat, and SUSE Enterprise Linux on Power, can be virtualized through the built-in PowerVM hypervisor that provides dynamic sharing of resources for thousands of VMs with the uninterrupted movement of instances. PowerVM is the only hypervisor amongst its significant competitors with almost no significant reported vulnerabilities.

The PowerVC (based on OpenStack) also provides cloud management capabilities out of the box. For example, it includes the ability to dynamically activate more private cloud resources on your servers as capacity demands increase.

Why IBM Power and what business value it can deliver?

Security

Protect data from core to cloud. Support end-to-end encryption across hybrid cloud using memory encryption at the processor level — without management overhead or performance impact. And protect from future threats with support for post-quantum cryptography and fully homomorphic encryption.

IBM Offerings

• Processor cryptographic engines
• On-chip accelerators
• IBM PowerVM
• Trusted Boot and Trusted Platform Module (TPM)
• IBM PowerSC for enterprise security and compliance
• Secure Boot
• Life Partition Mobility (LPM)
• Safeguard
• OS (IBMi, AIX, Linux) Security & Encryption Capabilities
• Protected Execution Facility

Hybrid Cloud

IBM Power 10 delivers a smooth experience in extending mission-critical workloads across the hybrid cloud, and this approach can offer up to 2.5x more value than a public cloud-only.

IBM Offerings

• IBM PowerVC
• IBM Cloud management console
• IBM Cloud Automation Manager
• IBM Power® Enterprise Pools
• Red Hat OpenShift
• Ansible automation
• IBM Cloud Pak
• IBM Multicloud Manager
• IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers on IBM Cloud
• VMware vRealize Operations and Automation.

High Performance

Highest throughput per core and core/memory bandwidth to deliver faster business results, up to 2.5x Intel-based alternatives.

IBM Offerings

• IBM RISC Power Processors Technology

Agility

Respond faster to business demands. The Power10 processor enables more efficient scaling without requiring energy or footprint increases. In addition, a private power Cloud with dynamic capacity now includes metering Red Hat OpenShift and Linux, AIX and IBM i environments for flexible consumption consistently across public, private, and hybrid cloud.

IBM Offerings

• IBM PowerVM
• Dynamic Resource sharing
• Granularity
• Elastic Capacity on Demand
• Power Enterprise Pool
• Mobile Capacity on Demand
• Virtual Hardware Management Console.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Streamline insights and automation. Now you can extract new insights faster from enhanced in-core AI inferencing capability in every server. Securely extract insights from your most sensitive data where it resides, eliminating the time and risk of data movement.

IBM Offerings

• Built-in acceleration by integrating matrix math assist (MMA) units right into the chip
• IBM Watson Machine Learning

Resiliency

Driven by accelerated digitization and the expectation of 24/7 access, the Power family of servers historically offer at least 25% less downtime vs. comparable high-end servers. It is designed to reduce the cost of downtime. The built-in intelligent memory protection detects and fixes potential faults before they lead to system failure, thereby increasing reliability.

IBM Offerings

• First Failure Data Capture
• Processor Instruction Retry
• L2/L3 Cache ECC protection with cache line-delete
• CRC checked processor fabric bus retry with spare data lane
• Core Contained Checkstops
• PCIe hot-plug with processor integrated PCIe controller
• Memory DIMM ECC supporting x4 Chipkill*
• Custom DIMM support with additional spare DRAM capability*
• Active Memory Mirroring for the Hypervisor
• Redundant service processor with concurrent failover

Sustainability (Green IT)

Although the Power10 processor delivers new levels of performance of 50% compared to its predecessors, it also minimizes its impact on the environment by reducing the operating costs from reduced waste & energy and improved operating processes.

IBM Offerings

• IBM is committed to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

IBM POWER Systems is the best platform for Analytic Software and mission-critical solutions such as SAP HANA, SAS, and Oracle.

Power Systems are the most flexible, resilient, and high-performance architecture that allows more SAP HANA production instances on one server vs. on x86/Intel architecture. It supports mixed workloads and traditional enterprise apps (Oracle, DB2, IBMi, App Servers) to coexist with SAP HANA on the same system reducing IT footprint and energy cost. Power Systems provide better TCA & TCO vs. x86/intel competitors.

With eight-way simultaneous multithreading versus two-way multithreading on commodity processors, IBM Power is designed to handle data-intensive workloads.

GBM Services is ready to help Enterprises move into the right path and have the best opportunity to transfer traditional IBM Power workloads into Microsoft Azure public cloud. GBM Qatar has numerous references of effective and successful IBM Power implementation with extreme customer satisfaction and exciting expectation. Get in touch with us to know more.