Pete McCaffery, IBM Pure Systems, at IBM Pulse 2014 with John Furrier and Dave Vellante
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TheCUBE traveled again to Nevada, attending the IBM Pulse Conference in Las Vegas in order to deliver the hottest news in the tech industry. Joining John Furrier and Dave Vellante in the studio, Peter McCaffery, Director of Marketing with IBM PureSystems, agreed to give an in-depth lowdown on IBM's latest unfolding success stories.
"What's the news?" asked theCUBE co-hosts.
"We are taking our pattern technology, which was originally deployed on our PureApplication System family, and we're moving it to SoftLayer, giving the clients flexibility to deploy either on-premise or off-premise," began McCaffery.
"The big message we're hearing is 'Cloud equals growth.' What are the benefits of the SoftLayer Pure integration? asked Furrier.
"It starts with the Pattern itself; it's like a blueprint for the applications. You capture that blueprint and the configuration behind the application," said McCaffery. "Previously, you would deploy that on-premise, using PureApplication System. Now you can take the same pattern and move it to an infrastructure that runs on SoftLayer. This opens up to a lot of interesting use-cases."
Basically, clients running 15 application instances on-premise, (some of them probably lightly utilized) can now optimize the environment, putting the lightly utilized instances on public cloud and moving the pattern back and forth. "You write the pattern once and you deploy it where you need to. What a great way to capture and optimize and existing application," commented McCaffery.
"What's changed since IoD in the expert integrated systems? What's getting traction?" inquired Vellante.
"The market is measured by IDCs and it is growing at a 70% year over year. Within that market IBM was growing almost two and a half times. We established a great deal of momentum in that market place and we continue to build on that momentum with the kind of announcements you hear here at Pulse," replied Peter McCaffery.
Pure Systems has three offerings:
.
PureFlex
PureApplication System
PureData System
.
"The last two will remain unchanged. The PureFlex will have a couple of different modules: an X86 based module (that will go to Lenovo when the acquisition is closed), a Power based module that we call hybrid, which is a combination of Power and X86," said McCaffery.
He added: "We continue to be very invested in the integrated systems market. We're focusing on the higher value offers around big data and cloud, extending our capabilities to the off-premise environment."
Scaling value
.
Vellante asked: "The more you get integrated up the stack, the more value your customers seem to achieve. Has your experiences pointed that out? What are you seeing in terms of full stack integration vs the converged infrastructure and the IaaS layer?"
"It's almost mirroring the cloud market itself," thinks McCaffery. "The cloud marked originated around IaaS and it continued to move up the stack; the same seems to be happening with the integrated systems market. A segment of that market is very focused on integrated infrastructure (a next generation Blade platform), but there's also a fast growing segment of the market that's really about optimizing for the specific workload. That workload might be an analytics based workload, requiring different levels of integration and content, or it might be an application platform, requiring the right development & environment and the underlying automation that goes with it."
"Do you see this as an evolution of the server business or more like a disruptive revolution?" asked Vellante.
"A little bit of each," replied McCaffery. A health-care business client once confessed he felt like working in manufacturing because he had to take all the components and run them through an assembly line -- that was the IT organization. The client just couldn't afford that business model anymore. He needed to be more agile and quicker-to-market.
"These clients see these systems as a higher level building block, with a different level of value, offering a better starting point and allowing them to get to the end game much quicker."
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Pete McCaffery, IBM Pure Systems, at IBM Pulse 2014 with John Furrier and Dave Vellante
@thecube
#ibmpulse
TheCUBE traveled again to Nevada, attending the IBM Pulse Conference in Las Vegas in order to deliver the hottest news in the tech industry. Joining John Furrier and Dave Vellante in the studio, Peter McCaffery, Director of Marketing with IBM PureSystems, agreed to give an in-depth lowdown on IBM's latest unfolding success stories.
"What's the news?" asked theCUBE co-hosts.
"We are taking our pattern technology, which was originally deployed on our PureApplication System family, and we're moving it to SoftLayer, giving the clients flexibility to deploy either on-premise or off-premise," began McCaffery.
"The big message we're hearing is 'Cloud equals growth.' What are the benefits of the SoftLayer Pure integration? asked Furrier.
"It starts with the Pattern itself; it's like a blueprint for the applications. You capture that blueprint and the configuration behind the application," said McCaffery. "Previously, you would deploy that on-premise, using PureApplication System. Now you can take the same pattern and move it to an infrastructure that runs on SoftLayer. This opens up to a lot of interesting use-cases."
Basically, clients running 15 application instances on-premise, (some of them probably lightly utilized) can now optimize the environment, putting the lightly utilized instances on public cloud and moving the pattern back and forth. "You write the pattern once and you deploy it where you need to. What a great way to capture and optimize and existing application," commented McCaffery.
"What's changed since IoD in the expert integrated systems? What's getting traction?" inquired Vellante.
"The market is measured by IDCs and it is growing at a 70% year over year. Within that market IBM was growing almost two and a half times. We established a great deal of momentum in that market place and we continue to build on that momentum with the kind of announcements you hear here at Pulse," replied Peter McCaffery.
Pure Systems has three offerings:
.
PureFlex
PureApplication System
PureData System
.
"The last two will remain unchanged. The PureFlex will have a couple of different modules: an X86 based module (that will go to Lenovo when the acquisition is closed), a Power based module that we call hybrid, which is a combination of Power and X86," said McCaffery.
He added: "We continue to be very invested in the integrated systems market. We're focusing on the higher value offers around big data and cloud, extending our capabilities to the off-premise environment."
Scaling value
.
Vellante asked: "The more you get integrated up the stack, the more value your customers seem to achieve. Has your experiences pointed that out? What are you seeing in terms of full stack integration vs the converged infrastructure and the IaaS layer?"
"It's almost mirroring the cloud market itself," thinks McCaffery. "The cloud marked originated around IaaS and it continued to move up the stack; the same seems to be happening with the integrated systems market. A segment of that market is very focused on integrated infrastructure (a next generation Blade platform), but there's also a fast growing segment of the market that's really about optimizing for the specific workload. That workload might be an analytics based workload, requiring different levels of integration and content, or it might be an application platform, requiring the right development & environment and the underlying automation that goes with it."
"Do you see this as an evolution of the server business or more like a disruptive revolution?" asked Vellante.
"A little bit of each," replied McCaffery. A health-care business client once confessed he felt like working in manufacturing because he had to take all the components and run them through an assembly line -- that was the IT organization. The client just couldn't afford that business model anymore. He needed to be more agile and quicker-to-market.
"These clients see these systems as a higher level building block, with a different level of value, offering a better starting point and allowing them to get to the end game much quicker."
