IBM unveils updated server, storage products

data, increase IT capacity, and deliver new services faster, MENA FN writes.

The offerings include entry-level business analytics systems, accelerated database analytics, and expanded data storage options; technologies that automate security and compliance of virtualised environments and multi-system virtualisation capabilities; and solutions to help establish virtualised data centre environments, scale cloud file systems more efficiently and improve system utilisation.

According to eWeek, the new analytics systems come at a time when top-tier OEMs are looking at ways of integrating workload-specific software onto servers, giving enterprises powerful and easy-to-deploy offerings.

Oracle officials have been vocal proponents of this approach, bundling their software onto SPARC and x86 systems from the hardware business they inherited when the software giant bought Sun Microsystems last year.

PCWorld reports that an IBM spokeswoman said they have also introduced the DB2 Analytics Accelerator technology, which will help customers make sense of massive amounts of data flowing in through the cloud much quicker. Instead of waiting to pull out reports for analytics, customers can get business insight and act as transactions are processed in the cloud.