IBM i in Modern World

Richie Palma
Technical Solution Consultant
IBM i in a
Modern World

• Tech Solutions Consultant with iTech Solutions
Group
• Passion for building IBM Power Systems
infrastructure
• Customer focused expert in lean solution design
• IBM Power Systems Champion 2017 & 2018
• IBM Fresh Face of IBM i
Email: rpalma@itechsol.com
Twitter: @Richie_Palma
LinkedIN: www.linkedin.com/in/richiepalma
Richie Palma

In this session we will look at…
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• What makes IBM i so special in todays modern compute environment.
• How it’s being used to drive competitive advantage.
• We will look at how it compares to other technologies/platforms.
• Squash some of the B.S. claims slung around by people who chase
dollars instead of efficiency.
• Look at how Power Systems & IBM i together provide the best
landscape for business critical applications.
• How IBM i is empowering our demanding line of business
counterparts on the front lines.
• How to move IBM i technology from surviving to thriving.
• Why IBM i is the better choice for business critical workloads.

Our Mission as IT
Professionals
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Our Mission…
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We need to efficiently use technology to …
Help people Help the business
Deliver value to
the markets they
serve.
Technology is just a tool to help serve that mission…

Let’s keep it simple/stupid…
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Servers, operating systems, & applications manufacture &
distribute data.
Simple RIGHT?
If that’s true, we can more simply understand computation &
better approach the optimization of it.

A Little Legacy History…
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What is a legacy?
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http://www.dictionary.com/browse/legacy

What is a History?
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http://www.dictionary.com/browse/history?s=t

A System/34 Example…
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http://www.corestore.org/34.htm

History
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Over time systems get
exponentially faster with
each new model release.

History
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Richie can legally consume
adult beverages in the
United States (2006)
Became a user on the
platform (2005)
Started with Arbor Solutions
a Business Partner In Grand
Rapids, MI (2012)
Joined iTech Solutions a
Gold IBM Power Systems BP
in May 2018

Impact…
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These machines have had a massive impact
on the people that interacted with them.
It becomes part of their identity.
IBM i has roots going back to the System/34
and has been influenced by every iteration
since then.

Influence…
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But… their future is depicted by how they
use the past to optimize the future.
Just like people are influenced by their
parents, childhood, and life experiences

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NOT the AS/400, iSeries, or System i.
It’s the culmination of experiences and how
some of the greatest brains in computer
science reacted to them.

HELP! I’ve fallen & I can’t get up!

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From my experience….
The biggest limiting factor in the wide
spread adoption of IBM i for business critical
workloads is the people who own them.
IBM i is a modern & innovative platform for
business compute but much of it’s aging
workforce has lost it’s passion for
innovation.

We’re Stuck
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Upgrade your IBM i & IBM Power
System Infrastructure to run current
business critical applications in a
modern supported environment.
Move to a completely new ERP
platform with a Non IBM i (SQL,
Oracle, SAP) on Power Systems
backbone.
Option A
OR
Option B

Options…
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Upgrade your IBM i & IBM
Power System Infrastructure
to run current business critical
applications in a modern
supported environment.
platform with a Non IBM i
(SQL, Oracle, SAP) on Power
Systems backbone.
Option A Option B

We’re Stuck…
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Upgrade your IBM i & IBM
Power System Infrastructure
to run current business critical
applications in a modern
supported environment.
platform with a Non IBM i
(SQL, Oracle, SAP) on Power
Systems backbone.
Option A Option B
Upgrade IBM i & IBM Power
System s Infrastructure. Then
build innovative business
application in Python, Ruby,
Node.JS, or PHP to drive
business value and efficiency.
Option A²

What makes IBM i on
IBM Power Systems
unique in today’s modern
compute environment?

Why clients value IBM i…
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IBM i Single Level Storage
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The power is in the marriage of IBM i…
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IBM develops, tests, integrates the entire
stack
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• Device drivers, PCI
adapters
• Processors & all chips in
CEC
• Hypervisor (PowerVM) &
VIOS
IBM Power Stack
• I/O drawers / memory management unit
• Operating system (AIX, System i, Linux)
• Middleware and Clustering software

Intel is a chip company…
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Intel Processor•Intel is a chip company

IBM Power8 Power
Systems: The platform of
choice

Workload Optimized Frequency
CPU tunes itself on
the fly.
Gives you what you
need when you need it.

SMT
Each core can run up
to 8 operations at the
same time.

SMT
Each core can run up
to 8 operations at the
same time.
Intel offers SMT4
but most x86
machines run at
SMT2 Max

Power Systems today w/ POWER8…
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Power8 Scale-Out Systems…
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Power8 S814 (8286-41A)
• Massive Performance @ 10,000 CPW/core.
• Increased storage capacity in the CEC. (4-core: 10 SFF
or 6&8-core: 18 SFF drives) (Big deal for existing customers
who’s previous storage or I/O needs forced them into an expansion
drawer.)
• High speed RAID controller w/ write cache.
• Integrated PCIe Gen3 SAS controller

Creative Intellect Consulting - Study
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https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?htmlfid=POL03221USEN&
IBM POWER8 - A processor to challenge Intel’s dominance

Power8 S824 vs. Intel Proliant DL380 Gen8
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https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?htmlfid=POV03213USEN&
Seeing is Believing: POWER8 vs. Intel x86 Performance
This demonstration shows a comparison of web application performance on
POWER8 vs. Intel x86 processors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHHNr5Vqoxs

Core Performance
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x86 Vendors compare:
4-socket 60 core
x86 servers
Power S824 2 socket
24 core ServersVS

Core Performance
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x86 Vendors compare:
4-socket 60 core
x86 servers
Power S824 2 socket
24 core ServersVS
Core Performance
Lower software costs as a result of performance and
efficiency at the core level.

Performance comparison – POWER8 vs. x86 E5
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1) IBM Power System S824 on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark running SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application; 4 processors / 24 cores / 96 threads, POWER8; 3.52GHz, 512 GB memory, 21,212 SD benchmark users, running AIX® 7.1 and DB2® 10.5,
Certification # 2014016. Source: http://www.sap.com/benchmark All results valid as of October 3, 2014
2) Dell PowerEdge R730, on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark running SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application; 2 processors/36 cores/72 threads, Intel Xeon Processor 2699v3; 2.30 GHz, 256 GB memory; 16,500 SD benchmark users, running RHEL 7
and SAP ASE 16; Certification # 2014033. Source: http://www.sap.com/benchmark.
3) SPECcpu2006 results are submitted as of 9/8/2014. For more information go to http://www.specbench.org/cpu2006/results/
4) SPECjbb2013 results are submitted as of 9/8/2014. For more information go to http://www.specbench.org/jbb2013/results
5) SPECjEnterprise2010 results are valid as of 9/8/2014. For more information go to http://www.specbench.org/jEnterprise2010/results/
6) Oracle eBS 12.1.3 Payroll Batch Extra Large Kit and are current as of 3/24/2014. For more information go to http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/benchmark/apps-benchmark/results-166922.html
7) Siebel 8.1.1.4 PSPP Kit and are current as of 3/24/2014. For more information go to http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/benchmark/white-papers/siebel-167484.html

IBM i: The best platform
for business critical
applications

CHERI
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CHERI (Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions)

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Free-Format
RDi
With the power, elegance, & beauty of PHP, Python,
Java, & Ruby on Rails.
IBM continues to bring additional functionality to RPG.

Top programming languages (TIOBE)…
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Who uses PHP, Python, & Ruby anyway?
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YouTube, DropBox, Google, Quora, Instagram, Spotify,
& Reddit.
Facebook, Yahoo!, Wordpress, Wikipedia, Tumblr,
Flickr, & Digg
GitHub, Hulu, KickStarter, Airbnb, Groupon,
Basecamp, & Shopify.

The way we work has
also changed…
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How we used to work…
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How we work today…
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Customer Story! GRAR
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Changing the local real-estate search game with IBM i &
Wordpress)

Why did GRAR choose WordPress
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https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/content_management/ms/q
How to read the diagram:
51.2% of the websites w3techs.com monitors do
not use a CMS (content management system.)
WordPress is used by 29.3% of all the websites.
That is a CMS system market share of 60%.
W3techs.com collects data from the Alexa top 10 million websites.

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Additional fields
Robust search interface provides good navigation across all user devices.

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All content is
pulled directly
from DB2.Result set built
from previous
search terms.
Thumb images
live natively
on IBM i. Clean & simple
U/I that is fully
responsive.

How does IBM i & IBM
Power Systems come
together to drive
competitive advantage?

The real barrier to adoption…
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I.T. Departments in two different companies
Company A
CIO Company BCIO
Which CIO is more important… which CIO has the
biggest impact?

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What if both companies produced the same products?
Company A
CIO Company BCIO
And the same exact annual revenue?

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The Company “A” mindset
goes against everything I
have been taught about
business.
Position Salary
Company
"A"
Company
"B"
C-Level $120,000 1 1
Directors $85,000 3 2
Managers $70,000 7 5
Staff $55,000 21 8
32 16
$2,020,000 $1,080,000
# of Employees
Total Emp Qty:
Total Emp Cost:

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Why don’t more companies migrate over to IBM i
from other platforms?
Who wants to be
the guy hacking off
half their staff?
Ego’s

Quark & Lepton Study (Aug 2017)
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https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?htmlfid=POL03278USEN
Whitepaper published August 30th, 2017
This paper compares the use of three core business
information technology (IT) platforms for midsize
businesses:
IBM i operating
system with Db2
on IBM Power
Systems
Microsoft Windows
Server with SQL
Server on Intel x86
servers
Linux with Oracle
Database on Intel
x86 servers

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Estimated three-year costs of ownership for the three
platforms were calculated based on costs of…
• Hardware acquisition and maintenance;
• License and support for operating systems, databases,
and other systems software
• Personnel for system and database administration
• Facilities (primarily energy).
• Hardware, maintenance, and software license and
support costs are based on discounted prices reported by
users.

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3 Year Costs by Platform—Averages for All Installations

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3 Year Acquisition/Ongoing Costs —Averages All
Installations

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3 Year Costs of Downtime—Averages All Installations

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O/S Vulnerability Data: Jan, 2008 – Mar, 2017

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I believe IBM i is the best platform for business critical
applications and people!

IBM i in Modern World

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