IBM launches new integrated systems

“By tightening the connections between hardware and software,and adding incomparable software expertise,PureSystems is designed to help clients in India and global to free up time and money to focus on innovation,” says Pradeep Nair,director – software group IBM India/South Asia.

IBM’s invested $2b in the past four years on research and develoment which included developing PureSystems. The company believes that the time and effort needed to build,procure and deploy the infrastructure for a typical web application currently takes over six months but the new technology will reduce time significantly.

“IBM is seems to be following what most of the other IT vendors have been doing called converged infrastructure,” says Naveen Mishra,principal research analyst at IT research firm Gartner Inc. “With this system,customers do not have to buy traditional three separate products for server,storage and networking however,Indian CIOs do not readily accept new technologies and usually follow an existing trend,” he adds. CIOs will first see what are the kind of applications that can be used on this system and the workload it can take.

IBM has stated that some of the large Indian banks and mobile telephony companies have already signed to use the products which costs from $1,00,000.

Consultants say it is early days in India to see a quick adoption of converged infrastructure. “2012 might be early,but in 2013-14 might see faster adoption,” says Mishra of Gartner.

HP,Cisco Systems Inc and other leading IT vendors have also been pushing converged infrastructure,which integrates server,storage,networking and other technologies into a single managed architecture. “IT vendors are doing it to keep a large of the companies’ IT budgets with them,” says Mishra of Gartner.

For better adoption of its products,IBM has stated that the IBM Global Asset Recovery Services can buy back servers,including those made by HP and Oracle,for clients migrating to IBM PureSystem.