Paris - 11 avr. 2012: IBM annonce aujourd’hui une nouvelle famille de « systèmes experts intégrés », IBM PureSystems.

IBM PureSystems est le fruit de 2 milliards de dollars investis en R&D et de plusieurs acquisitions pendant près de quatre ans. Cette nouvelle famille de systèmes bénéficie d’une avancée d’IBM sans précédent pour intégrer tous les éléments de l’IT, à la fois virtuels et physiques dans des Systèmes « prêts à l’emploi » offrant ainsi aux clients un changement radical par rapport au modèle qu’ils utilisent actuellement.

Aujourd’hui, les entreprises dépensent près de 70% de leur budget IT dans la gestion informatique et la maintenance, laissant peu de marge pour investir dans l’innovation. 2/3 des entreprises sont obligées de repousser la date initiale de fin de déploiement de leurs solutions, d’après une étude récente par IBM et IDC. Cette étude montre par ailleurs que seulement 1 entreprise sur 5 est en mesure de consacrer du temps et de l’argent dans des projets d’innovation dans le domaine de l’IT.

L’IT est en train de devenir un frein à l’innovation alors qu’il devrait en être le moteur !

Avec la famille IBM PureSystems, IBM pose les prémices d’une nouvelle ère de l’informatique en proposant des systèmes aux attributs uniques : 

-          Expertise intégrée : Ces systèmes intégrés sont fondés sur l’expertise/Best Practices des cas clients analysées pendant des décennies, et sont le résultat du savoir-faire accumulé par IBM, notamment dans ses laboratoires. 

-          Intégration native : Intégrés de manière native, ces systèmes sont livrés clefs-en-main, avec la flexibilité et les capacités de contrôle nécessaires permettant aux systèmes de s’adapter automatiquement en fonction de règles et de besoins. Ils sont contrôlés à partir d’une seule console. 

-          Utilisation simplifiée : Leur usage est simplifié pour les équipes informatiques et les directions fonctionnelles, utilisatrices de ressources informatiques. Cela procure un temps de déploiement extrêmement réduit ; une application CRM qui prend habituellement 3 jours pour être déployée peut maintenant l’être en moins d’une heure. Par conséquent, les entreprises peuvent consacrer plus de temps à l’innovation. 

Par ailleurs, d’après une étude IBV, 90% des organisations espèrent adopter ou développer de façon significative le modèle du Cloud dans les 3 années à venir.

Cette nouvelle famille IBM PureSystèmes permettent de mettre en place un système de Cloud privé en seulement quelques minutes grâce à l’intégration d’un logiciel de gestion du Cloud dans les Systèmes experts ; il s’agit là d’un tournant sans précédent dans l’intégration des composants. 

Déjà plus de 125 éditeurs de logiciels travaillent avec IBM pour offrir des applications “PureSystems Ready.”

IBM annonce aujourd’hui deux modèles de cette famille : IBM PureFlex System et IBM PureApplication System 

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IBM SETS THE STAGE FOR THE NEXT ERA OF COMPUTING 

- Deep integration points to new ‘Scale-In’ approach to system design from IBM

- Built-in ‘expertise’ makes new family of systems simple to run and manage

- Gives enterprises the ability to change the economics of IT

ARMONK, N.Y., April 11, 2012 -- IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced a major step forward in a new, simpler era of computing with the introduction of a new category of "expert integrated systems." This new family is the first with built-in expertise based on IBM's decades of experience running IT operations for tens of thousands of clients in 170 countries.

IBM’s expert integrated systems family – PureSystems – is the result of $2 billion in R&D and acquisitions over four years, an unprecedented move by IBM to integrate all IT elements, both physical and virtual. The new systems family offers clients an alternative to today’s enterprise computing model, where multiple and disparate systems require significant resources to set up and maintain.

The prime challenge facing companies worldwide is the need to spend 70 percent or more of IT budgets on simple operations and maintenance, leaving little to invest in innovation.[1] Two-thirds of corporate IT projects are delivered over budget and behind schedule, according to a recent study by IBM which also found that only one in five corporate IT departments are able to spend the majority of their IT budget on innovation. To join the conversation, visit #IBMPureSystems on Twitter.

With the introduction of the new PureSystems family, IBM is unveiling three major advances that point to a new era of computing technology that is designed to allow businesses to slash the high costs and nagging complexity associated with managing information technology.

·        “Scale-In” System Design:  With PureSystems, IBM is introducing a new concept in system design that integrates the server, storage, and networking into a highly automated, simple-to-manage machine. Scale-in design provides for increased density – PureSystems can handle twice as many applications compared to some IBM systems, doubling the computing power per square foot of data center space.[2]

·        Patterns of Expertise:  For the first time, IBM is embedding technology and industry expertise through first-of-a-kind software that allows the systems to automatically handle basic, time-consuming tasks such as configuration, upgrades, and application requirements.

·        Cloud Ready integration:  Out of the box, all PureSystems family members are built for the cloud, enabling corporations to quickly create private, self-service cloud offerings that can scale up and down automatically. 

“With its new scale-in design and built-in expertise, PureSystems represents an important advance in the evolution of computing,” said Steve Mills, senior vice president and group executive, software and systems, IBM. “By tightening the connections between hardware and software, and adding incomparable software know-how, PureSystems is designed to help clients to free up time and money to focus on innovation that many businesses cannot address due to ever rising costs and staffing needs in the traditional data center.” 

Scale-In Design Marks New Path for 21st Century Technology 

PureSystem’s scale-in design integrates and optimizes all of the critical components required in today’s data center – system networking, storage, compute, management, etc. -- and provides for a single-view management system. The result is a system that is intuitive to set up and can be far less expensive to maintain and upgrade.  For example, PureSystems can go from its single shipping crate to being up and running in one-third the time as compared to other IBM technology.[3] 

PureSystems can automatically and quickly scale compute resources, networking and storage. 

Bottling Expertise – ‘Patterns’ Package Know-how

At the center of the PureSystem is new software capability – “patterns of expertise” -- that enables operational know-how and knowledge to be built directly into the systems.  This first-of-a-kind approach converts technology expertise into reusable, downloadable packages. Patterns are available in three categories: 

• IBM Patterns: Built-in at the factory and created based on knowledge gleaned from IBM’s smartest IT managers, engineers and technology experts, these sets of patterns are designed to automate time-consuming tasks such as configuring, deploying and upgrading applications -- applications that used to take days to deploy can now be rolled out in hours, for example. 
• ISV Patterns: IBM has teamed with more than 125 independent software vendors to offer applications that are certified “PureSystems Ready.” A new online catalogue of ISV Patterns, PureCentre, radically simplifies how applications are purchased, deployed and managed. For example, a customer relationship management program that used to take three days to deploy can now be deployed in under one hour. [See separate press release] 
• Customer Patterns:  IT organizations can package the knowledge of their own handcrafted applications into a Pattern. As a result, a company that is interested in expanding into new markets can do so even when skills are not readily available in new regions or markets.  

Cloud Ready Systems

With PureSystem, IBM is taking the unprecedented step to completely integrate all of the technology components needed to stand up a private cloud system in minutes. By combining the virtualized servers, storage and networking found in PureSystems with cloud management software, IT organizations have a ready-to-go “cloud system in a box”  -- giving them a foundational private cloud environment that can be expanded. The PureSystems cloud is delivered with built-in security, with no single point of failure. 

To significantly accelerate the use of the cloud, IBM has included a cloud self-service and provisioning interface directly into PureSystems. An application developer, for example, can use the self-service feature to configure a cloud environment application without any help from the IT department.  PureSystems will sense and respond to the needs of the running applications and services and make decisions on how best to deploy IT resources while ensuring maximum efficiency, performance, and control.

PureSystems integrates the same foundational technologies and software used in IBM’s public SmartCloud Services offerings.  As a result, by sharing common capabilities and interfaces, application developers can use IBM SmartCloud Services to create and test new applications.

Pricing and Availability

The first two models of the PureSystems family – PureFlex System and PureApplication System -- start shipping to customers this quarter. PureSystems support POWER processors and Intel processors.

Credit-qualified clients that elect financing can see immediate benefits with PureSystems while deferring their first payment for 90 days.  Flexible financing options provided by IBM Global Financing[4] make it simple for clients to acquire PureSystems, while enabling them to manage budgets more easily with predictable payments. IBM Global Asset Recovery Services can buy back servers, including those made by HP and Oracle, for clients migrating to IBM PureSystem. 

For more information on IBM PureSystems: www.ibm.com/press/pure, http://www.expertintegratedsystemsblog.com  and http://www.youtube.com/user/expertintegratedsys.