The latest from IBM
is that Altus IT and Torres Network, two fairly large managed service
providers, have deployed its PureSystems in their data centers. The Big
Blue says that these most recent wins reiterate a trend that has seen
MSPs choose its appliances over other solutions, such Oracle’s rivaling
Exa line-up of ‘engineered systems’.
Altus’s client base consists mostly of mid to large sized enterprises
in the oil and gas, pharmaceutical and telecommunication industries.
The firm offers its services in nine countries including the US, and
says that the release cycle of new offerings has been reduced by 60
percent thanks to the PureSystems roll out.
Torres Network in turn looked for hardware to support a new test
environment for their software, and they chose IBM’s appliances for the
job. The Bangalore-based provider offers carriers and telcoms software
that can help them scale their networks.
“Our need for the latest, scalable IT infrastructure for consistent
results for testing our solutions while ensuring high performance was
crucial,” said V.Jude Pragash, Director – Engineering, Torres Networks.
“We decided to do complete hardware overhaul and only IBM PureSystems
offered a highly scalable platform that met the needs of our customers
and was also manageable from remote locations.”
IBM’s PureSystems consolidates storage, network and compute in one
place, making it considerably easier for the user to deploy the solution
in their environment. This costs the client a premium and doesn’t offer
as much flexibility as more open systems, but each of the three
appliances in the line-up packs quite a value proposition for their
respective use cases.
The latest addition to the product family, PureData, was officially unveiled yesterday.
The system is specifically built to process big data workloads and
comes in three configurations tweaked for different types of analytics.
By: Maria Deutscher
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