ARMONK, N.Y., Aug.
27, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- As organizations look to take
advantage of the emergence of cloud, analytics and mobile
technologies, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that this trend is
driving interest in IBM systems in geographies around the
world.
In fact, a recent IBM study illustrates that four technologies -
Big Data and Analytics, Cloud, Mobile and Social - are no longer
just buzzwords but have become key ingredients of enterprise
software development and IT infrastructures. Seventy percent
of enterprises are now using Big Data and Analytics, Cloud, Mobile
and Social and 75 percent of enterprise decision makers now
consider these technologies as strategically important to their
organizations, up from 66 percent in 2012. [1]
"IT infrastructure is crucial to meet the demands of clients in
this new era of computing," said Stephen
Leonard, General Manager, Sales, IBM Systems &
Technology Group. "A new generation of IBM systems is helping
clients modernize their IT environments for emerging big data,
cloud computing, mobile and social technologies. Clients are
migrating from non-IBM systems to infrastructures based on these
IBM systems and the results they are seeing demonstrate that the
right infrastructure does matter."
Clients that have switched from non-IBM servers to an IBM
infrastructure to meet their Big Data, cloud, mobile and social
needs include:
- Alabama-based Logista
Solutions, a managed services provider building upon its expertise
in data center implementation and design. After deploying an
infrastructure based on IBM systems and storage, Logista is now
able to design and bring new products to market in approximately
five days instead of the typical one month or more needed with the
company's prior infrastructure.
- Brazil's Algar Telecom
replaced 80 Hewlett-Packard servers with an IBM mainframe platform,
achieving savings of 50 to 70 percent in data center floor space,
energy and cooling. At the same time, Algar increased
operational efficiency by 30 percent.
- The eThekwini Municipality, a government organization in the
province of KwaZulu-Natal that provides civic services to the
approximately 3.5 million citizens of Durban, South Africa. Utilizing an IBM
infrastructure, the government reduced the number of physical
servers in its environment by 67 percent and reduced infrastructure
complexity by 80 percent. As a result, it was able to improve
time savings by 90 percent and launch new products 92 percent
faster.
The IBM Systems & Technology portfolio offers a wide range
of options configured to help clients take advantage of new
technologies in cloud, mobile and analytics. To find out why
infrastructure matters, and for more information on specific IBM
systems visit:
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/infrastructure/us/en/
[1] Raising the game - The IBM Business Tech Trends Study
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