Two new offerings will be added to IBM’s PureSystems family, the PureData System for Analytics and a smaller PureApplication System to accelerate cloud deployments.

The new PureData System for Analytics, powered by Netezza technology, will address large amounts of data at high speed to assist organizations in the analysis of large volumes of information. The PuraData System for Analytics will be a key player in IBM’s Big Data Platform.

Emile Werr, head of product development, New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Big Data Group and global head of Enterprise Data Architecture and Identity Access Management for NYSE Euronext, stated:

NYSE needs to store and analyze seven years of historical data and be able to search through approximately one terabyte of data per day, which amounts to hundreds in total. The PureData System for Analytics powered by Netezza system provides the scalability, simplicity and performance critical in being able to analyze our big data to deliver results eight hours faster than on the previous solution, which in our world is a game changer when you look at the impact on businesses every second that passes.

Meanwhile, IBM is introducing a new set of options to accelerate and simplify cloud adoption and optimize the data center. These offerings include among others:

• Smaller PureApplication System—a new model for organizations with limited budgets to deploy cloud resources “out of the box.”
• PureApplicaciont System on POWER7+—to provide larger organizations with the ability to manage transaction-intensive applications across different environments, including cloud.
• SmartCloud Desktop Infrastructure—an offering meant to enhance the quality and reliability of virtual desktop environments, easing its management and monitoring.

IBM is reinforcing its PureSystem portfolio with a number of options built for reinforcing capabilities in key areas such as cloud and big data. Will this move IBM ahead in the new platform era?

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