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IBM launches its Smart Analytics System

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Apr. 9, 2010

Late yesterday, IBM said it has launched its new workload-optimized systems for business partners to deliver to their clients. IBM's new initiative begins with the availability of its Smart Analytics System.

Bernie Spang, Director of Product Strategy at IBM says "the market opportunity for business analytic solutions is growing across many industries -- financials, health care, retail, energy and telco."

"The IBM Smart Analytics System combines Cognos and our InfoSphere warehouse offering. It is integrated and tuned by IBM experts, so it accelerates the deployment of partner solutions with their clients and significantly reduces the time for them to deliver solutions," added Spang.

The IBM Smart Analytics System is designed as a standardized offering to enable resellers and applications partners to rapidly deliver industry solutions to their clients. It delivers a single, optimized system with the right balance of software, systems and storage capabilities for workloads generating unprecedented amounts of data at extreme speeds -- providing a powerful analytics platform that can be deployed and customized for clients in a matter of days instead of weeks.

IBM will announce details of the Business Partner reseller initiative for the Smart Analytics System in late May or early June.

IBM also announced that its lending arm, IBM Global Financing, is offering up to $500 million in financing to help credit-qualified Sun Business Partners migrate towards the resale of IBM systems.

Spang added "this is the broadening out of a strategy we've been on for some time now. Previously, some IT industry partners used our InfoSphere warehouse offering. This one brings in more analytics from Cognos.

Spang also said that IBM's new offer was about more than simply trying to poach business away from Sun, which saw its business fall off enormously following the initial announcement of its acquisition by Oracle in 2009, and whose channel business since the acquisition is unlikely to be helped by Oracle's announcement it is taking many premier Sun accounts direct.

Both the new workload-optimized systems and financing initiatives were designed to strengthen IBM's channel, Spang said.

He added "we continue to see a great deal of interest from partners who want to use the most advanced systems from IBM. Power 7 and eX-5 represent the latest generation and most advanced systems of their kind on the market."

IBM says that its technology and financing capabilities already have led to more than one-hundred Sun Business Partners to either grow or establish an IBM reseller business within their company.

In other news, IBM also announced its 'PureScale Application System' with Power 7 technology and Smart Analytics Systems for x86 and mainframe environments.

Each is integrated at every level -- from CPUs to hardware and to software, highly-tuned for analyzing enormous amounts of data and in real-time handling data intensive transactions.

Source: IBM.

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