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With the IBM PureApplication System, you can provision your own patterns of software,
middleware, and virtual system resources. You can provision these patterns within a unique
framework that is shaped by IT best practices and industry standards. Such standards have
been developed from many years of IBM experience with clients and from a deep
understanding of smarter computing. These IT best practices and standards are infused
throughout the system.
With IBM PureApplication System, you enjoy the following benefits:
IBM builds expertise into preintegrated deployment patterns, which can speed the
development and delivery of new services.
By automating key processes such as application deployment, PureApplication System
built-in expertise capabilities can reduce the cost and time required to manage an
infrastructure.
Built-in application optimization expertise reduces the number of unplanned outages
through best practices and automation of the manual processes identified as sources of
those outages.
Administrators can use built-in application elasticity to scale up or to scale down
automatically. Systems can use data replication to increase availability.
Patterns of expertise can automatically balance, manage, and optimize the elements
necessary, from the underlying hardware resources up through the middleware and software.
These patterns of expertise help deliver and manage business processes, services, and
applications by encapsulating best practices and expertise into a repeatable and deployable
form. This best-practice knowledge and expertise has been gained from decades of
optimizing the deployment and management of data centers, software infrastructures, and
applications around the world.
These patterns help you achieve the following types of value:
Agility: As you seek to innovate to bring products and services to market faster, you need
fast time-to-value. Expertise built into a solution can eliminate manual steps, automate
delivery, and support innovation.
Efficiency: To reduce costs and conserve valuable resources, you must get the most out of
your systems with energy efficiency, simple management, and fast, automated response
to problems. With built-in expertise, you can optimize your critical business applications
and get the most out of your investments.
Increased simplicity: You need a less complex environment. Patterns of expertise help you
to easily consolidate diverse servers, storage and applications onto an easier-to-manage,
integrated system.
Control. With optimized patterns of expertise, you can accelerate cloud implementations
to lower risk by improving security and reducing human error.
IBM PureApplication System is available in four configurations. These configuration options
enable you to choose the size and compute power that meets your needs for application
infrastructure. You can upgrade to the next size when your organization requires more
capacity, and in most cases, you can do so without application downtime.
Chapter 1. Introduction to IBM Flex Systems and IBM PureSystems offerings
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