Specifications

Chapter 1. IBM PureSystems 5
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 preferred practices and
industry standards that are culled from many years of IBM experience with
clients and from a deep understanding of smarter computing. These IT preferred
practices and standards are infused throughout the system.
With IBM PureApplication System:
򐂰 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 preferred 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.
You can use patterns of expertise to automatically balance, manage, and
optimize the necessary elements, from the underlying hardware resources up
through the middleware and software. You can use these patterns of expertise to
help deliver and manage business processes, services, and applications by
encapsulating preferred practices and expertise into a repeatable and
deployable form. This preferred practice knowledge and expertise was gained
from decades of optimizing the deployment and management of data centers,
software infrastructures, and applications around the world.
You can use these patterns to 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. You can use expertise built into a solution
to 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.