- Newest IBM LinuxONE system is engineered to deliver
cybersecurity, resiliency, scalability and AI inferencing for
hybrid cloud environments.
- Moving Linux workloads from a compared x86 system to an IBM
LinuxONE 4 Express can save over 52% on the total cost of ownership
over 5 years.1
ARMONK,
N.Y., Feb. 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE:
IBM) today announced IBM® LinuxONE 4
Express, extending the latest performance, security and AI
capabilities of LinuxONE to small and medium sized businesses and
within new data center environments. The pre-configured rack mount
system is designed to offer cost savings and to remove client guess
work when spinning up workloads quickly and getting started with
the platform to address new and traditional use cases such as
digital assets, medical imaging with AI, and workload
consolidation.
Building an integrated hybrid cloud strategy for today and
years to come
As businesses move their products and services online quickly,
oftentimes, they are left with a hybrid cloud environment
created by default, with siloed stacks that are not conducive to
alignment across businesses or the introduction of AI. In a recent
IBM IBV survey, 84% of executives asked acknowledged their
enterprise struggles in eliminating silo-to-silo handoffs. And 78%
of responding executives said that an inadequate operating model
impedes successful adoption of their multicloud
platform.2 With the pressure to accelerate and scale the
impact of data and AI across the enterprise – and improve business
outcomes – another approach that organizations can take is to more
carefully identify which workloads should be on-premises vs in the
cloud.
"IBM LinuxONE 4 Express is a chance for startups and small
to medium-sized businesses to build an intentional hybrid cloud
strategy from the ground up. IBM brings the power of hybrid cloud
and AI in the latest LinuxONE 4 system to a simple, easy to use
format that fits in many data centers," said Tina Tarquinio, VP, Product Management, IBM Z
and LinuxONE. "And as their businesses grow with the changing
shifts in the market, LinuxONE 4 Express can scale to meet growing
workload and performance requirements, in addition to offering AI
inferencing co-located with mission-critical data for growing AI
use cases."
Accelerating computing research for bio
sciences
University College London is one of largest universities in the
UK and well-known for their reputation as a public research
institution. They've been working with IBM to build a sustainable
hybrid cloud platform to support their academic research.
"Our Centre for Advanced Research Computing is critical to
enable computational research across the sciences and humanities,
as well as digital scholarship for students," said Dr. Owain Kenway, Head of Research Computing at
University College London. "We're excited for LinuxONE 4 Express to
support high I/O workloads like Next Generation Sequencing for
Biosciences as well as supporting work in "Trusted Research
Environments" (TREs), for example AI workloads on medical data. The
system's high performance and scalability suit our crucial research
needs, and its affordability will allow us to make it available to
both university research and industry players as a test bed."
Delivering high scalability, availability and security for a
range of data center environments and use cases
IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper 4, launched in April 2023 and based
on the IBM Telum processor, features capabilities designed to
reduce both energy consumption and data center floor space while
delivering the scale, performance and security that clients
need. Also built on the Telum processor and delivered in a
rack mount format, IBM LinuxONE 4 Express offers high availability
for clients who have strict resiliency requirements due to internal
or external regulations. In fact, IBM LinuxONE 4 Express systems,
with GDPS, IBM DS8000 series storage with HyperSwap and running a
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform environment, are designed to
deliver 99.999999% (eight 9s) availability.3
"IBM LinuxONE is rapidly becoming a foundational part of the
wider Infrastructure story within IBM," states Steven Dickens, VP and Practice Leader at The
Futurum Group. "With the new LinuxONE 4 Express solution, IBM is
uniquely positioned to handle mission-critical workloads with high
availability. When you combine this with the system's cybersecurity
posture, IBM is well positioned for market traction."
The system addresses a whole new set of use cases that startups
and small businesses are facing, including:
- Digital assets: IBM LinuxONE 4 Express provides a
secured platform with confidential computing capabilities
specifically designed to protect sensitive data, like digital
assets. IBM Secure Execution for Linux is a hardware-based security
technology that is now built into IBM LinuxONE 4 Express. Scalable
isolation for individual workloads can help protect not only from
external attacks, but also insider threats. This includes data in
use, a particularly critical stage of security for digital assets
use cases.
- Medical imaging with AI: With IBM Telum processor
on-chip AI inferencing, clients can co-locate AI with
mission-critical data on a LinuxONE system, allowing data analysis
where the data is located. For example, health insurance companies
could analyze large volumes of medical records in near real time to
validate process claims, increasing the speed of business decision
making.
- Workload consolidation: IBM LinuxONE 4 Express is
designed to help clients simplify their IT environments and cut
costs by consolidating databases onto a LinuxONE system. Designed
to bring significant cost savings for clients over time, clients
that move Linux workloads from compared x86 server to an IBM
LinuxONE 4 Express can save over 52% on their total cost of
ownership over 5 years.4
Activating the IBM Ecosystem for client success
With the IBM LinuxONE Ecosystem, including AquaSecurity, Clari5,
Exponential AI, Opollo Technologies, Pennant and Spiking, IBM is
working to provide solutions for
today's sustainability and cybersecurity challenges. For
clients that run data serving, core banking and digital assets
workloads, an optimized sustainability and security posture is key
to protecting both sensitive private data and sustainable
organizational goals. IBM Business Partners can learn more about
the skills required to install, deploy, service and resell IBM
LinuxONE 4 Express here.
"We purchased an IBM LinuxONE III Express to run proofs of
concepts for our strategic customers, and the feedback we have
received so far has been excellent," said Eyad Alhabbash, Director,
IBM Systems Solutions & Support Group at Saudi Business
Machines (SBM). "LinuxONE III Express demonstrated better
performance than the x86 running the same Red Hat OpenShift
workload, and the customer noted how user-friendly the IBM LinuxONE
is for server, storage and network management and
operations."
The new IBM LinuxONE 4 Express, starting at $135,0005, will be generally
available6 from IBM and certified business partners on
February 20, 2024.
To learn more, join IBM clients and
partners on February 20, at 11 am ET for a deep
dive, live webinar on industry trends, such as AI, sustainability
and cybersecurity, as well as receive behind-the-scenes access to
the new IBM LinuxONE 4 Express system.
About IBM
IBM is a leading provider of global hybrid cloud and AI, and
consulting expertise. We help clients in more than 175 countries
capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business
processes, reduce costs and gain the competitive edge in their
industries. More than 4,000 government and corporate entities in
critical infrastructure areas such as financial services,
telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM's hybrid cloud
platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital
transformations quickly, efficiently and securely. IBM's
breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing,
industry-specific cloud solutions and consulting deliver open and
flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM's
long-standing commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility,
inclusivity and service. For more information,
visit www.ibm.com
Media Contact:
Ashley Peterson
ashley.peterson@ibm.com
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1 DISCLAIMER: Compared IBM LinuxONE 4 Express
Model consisting of a CPC drawer and an I/O drawer to support
network and external storage with 12 IFLs and 736 GB of memory in 1
frame, versus compared 3 x86 servers with two Xeon Sapphire Rapids
Platinum 8444 processors with 32 cores each (2ch/32c) with a total
of 384 cores. All Systems are modeled to be running Linux Postgres
Enterprise-DB workloads with virtualization and DB tools. Results
may vary based on client-specific usage and location.
LinuxONE hardware is the expected global
price in $USD and discounts. X86 purchase price was included and
maintenance costs is from IDC's Pricing Service:
https://www.idc.com/myidc3/products with an aggressive discount.
Postgres Enterprise-DB software and tools prices are based on
street prices that is discounted from the list price. TCO is
calculated over a 5-year horizon. Cost estimates include hardware
costs and annual maintenance, Linux OS subscription costs,
virtualization software, people cost, and infrastructure (network,
energy, space) costs.
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2 IBM IBV
Research Insights: Mastering Hybrid Cloud, pg 11
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3
Disclaimer: IBM internal data based on measurements and
projections was used in calculating the expected value. Necessary
components include IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper 4; IBM z/VM V7.2 systems
or above collected in a Single System Image, each running RHOCP
4.10 or above; IBM Operations Manager; GDPS 4.5 for management of
data recovery and virtual machine recovery across metro distance
systems and storage, including Metro Multi-site workload and GDPS
Global; and IBM DS8000 series storage with IBM HyperSwap. A MongoDB
v4.2 workload was used. Necessary resiliency technology must be
enabled, including z/VM Single System Image clustering, GDPS xDR
Proxy for z/VM, and Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF) 4.10
for management of local storage devices. Application-induced
outages are not included in the above measurements. Other
configurations (hardware or software) may provide different
availability characteristics.
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4
DISCLAIMER: Compared IBM LinuxONE 4 Express Model consisting
of a CPC drawer and an I/O drawer to support network and external
storage with 12 IFLs and 736 GB of memory in 1 frame, versus
compared 3 x86 servers with two Xeon Sapphire Rapids Platinum 8444
processors with 32 cores each (2ch/32c) with a total of 384 cores.
All Systems are modeled to be running Linux Postgres Enterprise-DB
workloads with virtualization and DB tools. Results may vary based
on client-specific usage and location. LinuxONE hardware is the expected global price in
$USD and discounts. X86 purchase price was included and maintenance
costs is from IDC's Pricing Service:
https://www.idc.com/myidc3/products with an aggressive discount.
Postgres Enterprise-DB software and tools prices are based on
street prices that is discounted from the list price. TCO is
calculated over a 5-year horizon. Cost estimates include hardware
costs and annual maintenance, Linux OS subscription costs,
virtualization software, people cost, and infrastructure (network,
energy, space) costs.
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5 This price
reflects the base hardware configuration, and does not include
additional items, maintenance, the operating system or other
software. All prices are in USD. Prices shown do not include tax.
Price will vary based on country and currency.
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6 Systems
will not initially be available in Argentina, Mexico, Peru,
Indonesia, Taiwan, South Korea, India and China.
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