Modernize Your Data Center to Transform Your Business Intel® and IBM® Global Services fuel IT transformation with mission-critical migrations

The Data Center is EvolvingToday’s organizations are challenged to meet increasing business demands, gain competitive advantage, and keep budgets flat, while IT departments must deliver more reliability, availability, and scalability from mission-critical database infrastructure than ever before. But managing and securing growing volumes of data on aging and expensive infrastructures has become a major obstacle to business growth. Not only is there an explosion in the sheer amount of data produced, but users access that data more often and through diverse devices that are more difficult to manage and secure. Furthermore, to reduce costs and simplify IT management, more and more organi-zations are considering server virtualization and extending mission-critical workloads to the cloud.

Modernize Your Mission-Critical InfrastructureAging IT infrastructure can limit an organization’s ability to grow and meet increasing business demands. To combat spiraling costs and inefficiency—and to scale flexibly to meet the demands of new applications and services—orga-nizations seek new opportunities to transform IT. Intel® and IBM® offer an optimized solution: IBM System x® servers powered by Intel® Xeon® processor E7 family. The leading scalability and reliability of IBM System x servers, combined with the scalable performance and advanced reliability features of the Intel® Xeon® processor E7 family help companies solve today’s IT challenges and gain flexibility for the future. Because the migration of core applications and databases from older infrastructure to new environ-ments can be risky and complex, IBM Migration Factory offers proven services to help organizations install optimal solutions for their unique requirements.

Maximize Memory, Minimize Cost, and Simplify Deployment with IBM System x Servers

IBM System x advancements in physical server scalability, reliability, and performance can help solve business challenges, enabling companies to innovate and thrive. With eX5, IBM’s 5th Generation of the industry leading enterprise x86 servers, IBM engineers have radically expanded the capabilities of x86 servers. Leveraging the deep history of IBM innovation, eX5 servers offer the most advanced X-architecture yet, to help companies improve application performance while managing growth, complexity, and risk. IBM System x was graded #1 highest ever 4-socket score for system performance1, and has received three #1 world record scores for virtualization2, a # 1 application performance result on 2, 4, and 8-socket servers with two-tier SAP*3, and IBM System x servers were rated #1 in Sever Customer satisfaction for 8 consecutive quarters4.

With IBM System x servers, business can:

• Support Critical Business Workloads: Utilize the unmatched enterprise RAS capa-bilities of IBM’s x86 servers, including the most complete Predictive Failure Analysis features of any x86 product, Memory ProteXion for reduced memory losses, and FlexNode Failover to get back online faster.

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System x capability to expand memory in-dependently of the processor has unlocked an unprecedented amount of configura-tion flexibility. If applications or server virtualization require huge quantities of memory—more than the chassis can hold—eX5 allows expansion of the chassis with an external MAX5 memory chassis, for the most memory in the industry in each of these classes of servers. With these con-figurations, System x servers can deliver 5 times the memory of comparable 2-socket x86 servers, and 1.5 times the memory of comparable 4-socket x86 servers5.

• Minimize Cost: With the addition of the 2-socket System x3690 X5, System x has lowered the acquisition cost of enterprise servers, while preserving the ability to ex-pand and extend memory as needed. With more memory, companies can run more VMs per processor, which helps lower per-processor software licensing costs. System x servers also increase perfor-mance per watt of electricity consumed6, helping organizations budget, plan, and con-trol power usage.

• Simplify Deployment: With single points of management and remote administra-tion, eX5 systems are built for simpler qualification, faster deployment, and easier administration. With more affordable IT, companies can reduce IT costs and re-allo-cate resources to fuel innovation.

Success Story:Orange France Telecom Plans for Business GrowthOrange France Telecom introduces IBM DB2 pureScale running on IBM BladeCenter powered by Intel® Xeon® processors.

• Challenges: Business growth was imited by inflexible server architecture and applica-tion performance constraints.

• Solution: IBM DB2 pureScale running on IBM BladeCenter® powered by Intel® Xeon® processors.

• Benefits: 200% performance increase to 10,000 TPS per processor, 99% linear scal-ability, reduced server footprint, and lower TCO.

Learn more: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/mission-critical/mission-critical-computing-ibm-xeon-e7-db2-brief.html

Success Story:

Anixter International Keeps Orders Flowing IBM DB2 pureScale on Intel® Xeon® processor 7500 series-based IBM System x serv-ers helps Anixter provide uninterrupted data access for mission-critical applications.

• Challenges: Ensure uninterrupted data access for mission-critical applications sup-porting users in more than 50 countries.

• Solution: A simple, powerful, highly available database cluster: IBM DB2 pureScale running on three 2-socket IBM System x3690 X5 servers based on the Intel® Xeon® processor 7500 series.

• Benefits: Exceptional performance and high availability; easy testing, deployment, and management; flexibility and scalability for the future.

Learn more: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/mission-critical/mission-critical-computing-xeon-7500-anixter-case-study.html

Optimize Performance and Value with Intel® Xeon® Processor E7 Family

Top-of-the-line Intel® Xeon® processor E7 family delivers ideal performance for the most data-intensive workloads. With improved scalability and increased memory and I/O capacity—but at lower total cost of ownership (TCO) than traditional, propri-etary solutions—Intel® Xeon® E7 processors allow IT managers to cost-effectively adapt to changes in short-term business demands and address requirements for longer-term business growth.

Intel® Xeon® processor E7 family is designed for an organization’s most critical business needs. The powerful and reliable Intel® Xeon® processor E7 includes:

• Advanced reliability and security features, including Machine Check Architecture (MCA) recovery

• High memory capacity with Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) for high perfor-mance, low latency, and highly parallelized memory access

• Increased scalability with multi-core & hy-perthreading, offering up to 10 physical cores, running up to 20 threads

• Pervasive encryption capabilities includ-ing Intel® AES-NI, that enables faster, more affordable data protection and greater security

• Increased bandwidth with Intel® QuickPath InterConnect enables internal scalability and high performance database clusters like IBM DB2® pureScale®

• High physical consolidation ability with Intel® Virtualization Technology that delivers high availability, failover, and con-solidation of databases onto a single server

Together, IBM and Intel® focus on IT transformation through mission-critical migrations,

As organizations optimize their infrastructure, deploy more soft-ware, and move to the cloud, they need a simplified environment and scalable infrastructure with more processing power. As IBM System x has evolved, Intel® has shifted from smaller workloads and departmental applications to more enterprise workload levels—and is now used to support critical business workloads.

Migrating Your IT Infrastructure with IBM Migration Factory

1 “IBM System x and DB2 achieve more than 3 million transactions per minute on TPC-C benchmark—building on their industry record for x86-64 performance,” IBM Corporation 11 July 2011. TPC-C. <http://public.dhe.ibm.com/eserver/benchmarks/news/newsblurb_x3850X5_4P_tpcc_071111.pdf>.

2 “IBM publishes leadership 8-processor score for SPECvirt_sc2010 benchmark,” IBM Corporation 5 May 2011. SPEC. <ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/eserver/benchmarks/news/news-blurb_x3850X5_8p_specvirt_050511.pdf>.

“IBM posts leadership 2-processor score for HX5 blade server on SPECvirt_sc2010 benchmark,” IBM Corporation 18 May 2012. SPEC. <http://public.dhe.ibm.com/eserver/bench-marks/news/newsblurb_HX5_specvirt_051811.pdf>.

3 “IBM posts world-record result on Windows on two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark,” IBM Corporation 13 September 2011. SAP. <http://public.dhe.ibm.com/eserver/benchmarks/news/newsblurb_x3850X5_8p_Windows_sap_091311.pdf>.

4 “IBM System x Consistently Meets High Customer Expectations for Product and Service & Support,” IBM Corporation May 2011. Technology Business Research, Inc. <http://public.dhe.ibm.com/common/ssi/ecm/en/xsl03035usen/XSL03035USEN.PDF>.

5“Enhanced IBM eX5 enterprise systems” <http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/info/x86servers/ex5/index.html >.

6 “All Published SPECpower_ssj2008 Results,” SPEC, SPECpower_ssj2008, 28 December 2011. <http://www.spec.org/power_ssj2008/results/power_ssj2008.html>.

Learn More

To learn more about Mission-Critical solutions from Intel®, please visit:

www.intel.com/itcenter/topics/missioncritical

To learn more about IBM x86 servers, please visit:

www-03.ibm.com/systems/x/

To learn more about IBM Migration Factory, please visit:

www-03.ibm.com/systems/migratetoibm/factory/

A successful migration to IBM System x servers powered by Intel® Xeon® processor E7 family can bring substantial benefits, including reduced costs, footprint reductions, energy efficiency, a simplified environment, faster return on investment (ROI), lower TCO, and optimization for server virtualization.

IBM has built a world-class migration capability: the IBM Migration Factory. Given the synergy between Intel® and IBM, Migration Factory has extensive experience migrating aging infrastructures to the joint IBM and Intel® offering, providing unprecedented expertise for

each organization’s unique migration projects. The Migration Factory uses a proven methodology which has been meticulously refined over 25 years. While no two migrations are identical, the IBM process helps ensure success whether for an infrastructure migration, database migration, packaged ISV applications, custom applications, or a combination of all four.

This migration strategy has been successfully utilized in over 7,200 migrations since 2006. Additionally, each step of the engagement process includes defined deliverables that lead to sound, informed migration decisions.

The Migration Process

Preliminary Analysis Assessment Migration

• Initial discovery call with Migration Factory team to review requirements

• Complete technical questionnaire

• Define the approach and plan

• Define the project timeline

• Estimate schedule and cost

• Migrate business applications, data, and databases

• Integrate middleware

• Test and validate• Deploy• Verify

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