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© 2010 IBM Corporation

IBM Smart Analytics System

IBM Smart Analytics System

© 2010 IBM Corporation2

Séminaire Cloud – Montpellier – 15 et 16 mars 2010

Discovering DeeperBusiness Insights with Analytics

Deliver new insights, uncover trends and anomalies

Maximize profitability, minimize customer churn, detect fraud and increase campaign effectiveness

Faster Answers to Business Questions

Deliver the right information in context to decision makers where, when and how they need it

Making Better, Faster DecisionsAlign decisions across the organization with interactive, self-service environments for exploration and analysis

Optimizing Business Performance

Easily measure and monitor financial and operational business performance, analyze results, predict outcomes, and plan for better business results

BI is #1 priority for CIO’s

surveyed, 3 years running

Gartner EXP “Gartner: Making the Difference - The 2008 CIO Agenda”, Mark P. McDonald Tina Nunno Dave Aron, January 2008

Business Challenges Driving BI DemandThe right insight at the right place and time

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Highest AvailabilityRolling upgrades to approach zero planned downtime

ComprehensivenessComplete integrated and optimized analytic solution

FlexibilityExtend configurations anytime to meet new requirements for new analytic capabilities, user capacity or data capacity

Highest SpeedPre-configured analytics for greatly enhanced out-of-the box performance

AffordabilityLower initial and ongoing costs Reduce floor space requirementsEnable mixed generations of hardware, software & storage working together in a single solution

Business Intelligence Infrastructure ChallengesDiverse analytics: better, faster and cheaper

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What Clients are Telling Us

• We Need a Single System to Deliver Our Analytics Needs

Simplified planning, purchase, deployment, maintenance, and growth

Designed for Enterprise class analytics and performance

Pay as you grow Modular-based Deployment

• We Need Faster Time To Value

Pre-Built for Rapid Deployment

Pre-tested and Configured to your requirement

Out of the Box Performance

Minimized risk through standards and proven best practices

• With Reduced Cost Of Ownership

Reduced integration costs

Less Storage, Server and floor Space required

Improved system management

Quickly add user and data capacity to meet growth requirements

• And Greater Access to Information and Analytics

Pre-Configured Business Intelligence Modules with flexibility of functionality and style of delivery

Advanced Data Discovery through Data Mining & Text Analytics

Optimized and integrated OLAP capability gives you performance at the speed of thought



The industry's most completeHigh-Performance Solution for transforming

Information into business insight !

Answers When You Need Them

Answers Where You Need Them

Accelerate Time To Value

Leverage Existing Investments

“IBM Smart Analytics System”

The information decision makers need where and when they need it.

A flexible, expandable system that grows based on your

business needs.



InfoSphere BI ArchitectureFoundation for Trusted Information

InfoSphere Balanced Warehouse

InfoSphere Information Server • discover• cleanse• move

Cognos Business Intelligence

Operationalsystems

Reports, Dashboards, Planning, Analysis

ISAS



Introducing IBM Smart Analytics Systems (ISAS)

DB2

Infosphere WarehouseInfosphere Balanced Warehouse Cognos BI



– Broad range of BI capabilities for all user communities to receive relevant information how, when and where needed

– Enterprise-class platform to cost-effectively scale to meet growing user demands with high availability

– Fully integrated and optimized analytics – OLAP, Data Mining and Text Analytics for lower development costs, faster time to value and higher performance over enterprise-scale data sets

ReportingReporting AnalysisAnalysis DashboardsDashboards Event MonitoringEvent Monitoring

Why? How are we doing?

WebWeb OfficeOffice SearchSearchMobileMobile

Cubing Services OLAP

Text Analytics

Data Mining

DB2

IBM Smart Analytics System – Powerful AnalyticsDelivering information how, when and where it is needed

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Hash partitioning for maximum performance & scalability

Private network (FCM)

SMP server

SMP Server

DB Coordinatordb2 db2 db2 db2

SMP server

db2 db2 db2 db2

SMP server

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SMP server

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tablestables

Corporate network

Partitioned Database ModelDatabase is divided into multiple partitionsPartitions can run on different nodesEach Partition Server has dedicated resourcesParallel Processing occurs on all partitions and is coordinated by the DBMSSingle system image to user and application

SQL



IBM Smart Analytics SystemBusiness Intelligence & Analytics Server



What is the Infosphere Balanced Warehouse™

1 3 10 30 100

C-ClassExtreme

Price/performance

D-ClassModular for flexible

Scale out

E-ClassModular for flexible

Scale out

Terabytes of User data

Workload complexity

D5100

E7100

C4000 C3000

The Infosphere Balanced Warehouse is the complete data warehousing solution comprised of pre-tested, scalable and fully-integrated system components of InfoSphere Warehouse, Server and Storage.

• What is the InfoSphere Balanced Warehouse (IBW)?

• What variants are available?• C class – single server

• System X• D class – modular, 10’s of TB

• System X• E class – modular, >100TB

• System p

• What is ISAS• 2009 : E7600 (system p)• 2010 : D5600 (system x)

E7600

D5600



This next generation IBM Business Intelligence & Analytics software, server and storage hardware, services and support eliminates the time and cost of integrating and optimizing analytics solutions for business use, while preserving the flexibility not offered by single use appliances.

Smart Analytics System

IBM Smart Analytics System include everything required to serve as a foundation for your Business Intelligence solutions, out-of-the-Box !

Some of the included highlights are:

• Robust Cognos BI V8.4 & InfoSphere Warehouse software• Massive Parallel Processing Grid Architecture.• The latest in IBM Server technology• High performance IBM storage technology• HA/DR built in !• Build & deploy services• Comprehensive total solution support

IBM Smart Analytics SystemBusiness Intelligence & Analytics Server

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Faster ResultsLess Risk

June Jan.

5

4

3

2

Jan.

Build from Scratch

6 Months Days

Pre-Built

Pre-implementatio

n System Sizing

Acquire Components

Installation & Configuration

Testing & Validation

IBM Smart Analytics SystemResults in Days Versus Months



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IBM Smart Analytics SystemWhat's Inside?

Powerful Data Warehouse InfoSphere WarehouseInfoSphere Warehouse Advanced Workload Management Tivoli System Automation

Analytics SoftwareCognos 8 Business IntelligenceInfoSphere Warehouse Cubing Services InfoSphere Warehouse Text Analytics & Data Mining

Hardware & ServicesIBM Power 550IBM System Storage DS5300AIX 6.1

Deeply Optimized by IBM Experts…Flexible Growth…



• Modular building blocks • 4 DB logical data partitions per Data Module

• Latest POWER6 technology• 2 x dual-core 5.0 GHz POWER6™ /w SMT

• 32GB RAM

• 2 GigE dual-port PCI-X adapters @ 1 Gbit• 2-ports for Mgmt / ETL network

• 2-ports for FCM communications network

• 2 dual-port 4Gbps FC adapters

• Optional hot standby node for High Availability

IBM Smart Analytics SystemKey Hardware Components – POWER6 p550

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–IBM System Storage™DS4800

• High Performance Storage• 1 DS5300 shared per 4 modules

• 1200 MB/sec throughput for sequential reads per module

• Scalable Rack-Mounted Storage• Storage Configuration per data module

• 2 Exp5000 with 32x 15k 146GB disks

• 1 Exp5000 with 4x 15k 146GB hot spare disks • 4x 4Gbps SAN ports

• High Availability• RAID-5 with global hot spares

• Dual RAID controllers, redundant paths with failover protection• Remote Support Manager “call home” support

IBM Smart Analytics SystemKey Hardware Components – DS5300 Storage

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A Smarter Design• Balanced performance. The components that make up the Smart Analytics

System have been chosen for their performance characteristics, and balanced with the other components in the design.

• Stability. Components have been chosen that are successfully in use in production environments today, and have undergone rigorous lab testing

• Price/performance. The price to performance ratio has been considered a design principle to ensure an attractive price-to-performance characteristic of the solution.

• Scalability. The scalability of the Smart Analytics System solution is addressed via scale-out of the server and storage. This scalability has been made as simple as possible with a modular design

• Fault Tolerance. components have been chosen to provide fault tolerance, exploiting the built-in features of Power systems, network, SAN, and storage components

• High availability. High availability is provided at the server level through the hot-standby implementation down to the disks with a robust RAID design.

• Ease of installation and implementation. The Smart Analytics Systemdesign has been chosen to facilitate ease of installation, implementation, and manageability



FoundationStart with a single Foundation Module, the starting common foundation

Scalability and FailoverFor additional data handling capacity, number of users or failover functionality, add additional nodes

BI and AnalyticsInfoSphere Warehouse and Cognos BI modules

1 Module 1 to x Modules 0 to y Modules 0 or x/8 Modules

Choose the way that your data warehouse solution develops. Simply start with any foundation and just add modules as you require.

Foundation Application Modules

Foundation Module

Data Module

User Module

Failover Module

+ +

ISW Application

Module

CognosApplication

Module

IBM Smart Analytics SystemTransparent modular architecture

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IBM Smart Analytics SystemWhat's Inside?

Foundation

Module

Data

Module

User

Module

Failover

Module

ISW Application

Module

Cognos Application

Module

Server: 1 x 4way p550Storage: 1/4th x DS5300 + 2x EXP5000

Server: 1 x 4way p550Storage: 1/4th x DS5300 + 2x EXP5000

Server: 1 x 4way p550Storage: None

Server: 2 x 4way p550

Storage: use Foundation’s storage

Server: 2 x 4way p550

Storage: use Foundation’s storage

Management Server: 1x 4-way p550

Admin (1st user) module: 1x 4-way p550

Storage: 1/4th DS5300 + 2x EXP5000



Start right Add more capacityAdd more Users

Add new analytic capability

Add Capacity, Users & Analytic capabilities as workload requirements evolve

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IBM Smart Analytics SystemSeamless Growth & Adaptability for future needs

Optimized Performance through Autonomic Workload Management



Server:– p 550 server (4-way building block)Storage:– DS5300 server– 32 disks per serverSoftware:– AIX 6.1 TL2 SP3– DB2 9.5 FP4– IBM GPFS v3.2.1 (64-bit)DB2 logical design / module– 4 LDPs, each with:

1 5.0 GHz p6 core8 146GB 15k rpm disks8 GB memory

– 4 TB user space– Up to 4 modules per DS5300

with SAN switch

IBM p 5504 CPUs32 GB memory




DS5300 storage server

Admin Module Data Module Data Module Data Module

EXP500016 disks

EXP500016 disks

EXP500016 disks

EXP500016 disks

EXP500016 hot spares

Juniper EX4200-48T Ethernet switches

Redundant SAN40B switches

EXP500016 disks

EXP500016 disks

EXP500016 disks

EXP500016 disks

IBM Smart Analytics System FoundationConfiguration Overview

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Mutual Failover

Active BCU

Active BCU

N+M or Standby Configuration(Foundation Modules Only)

Active BCU

Active BCU

Standby BCU

Failover

Failover

Failover

Failover

• Both solutions are available for HA in the IBM Smart Analytics System

• Standby configuration is highly recommended• Standby configuration is for the Data Modules only and does not apply

to the BI Modules.

IBM Smart Analytics SystemFailover Configurations

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p 550: Standby BCU

DS5300 #1

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DS5300 #2

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8+1 HA Group

Controller A Controller B Controller A Controller B

SAN Switch # 1 SAN Switch # 2

Juniper Network Virtual Chassis

4 Node Block 4 Node Block

stage

cognos,PE

IBM Smart Analytics SystemDetailed HA Diagram

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p 550: Data BCU #1

Partitions1 2 3 4

p 550: Data BCU #2

Partitions5 6 7 8

p 550: Data BCU #3

Partitions9 10 11 12

p 550: Data BCU #4


p 550: Data BCU #5


p 550: Data BCU #6


p 550: Data BCU #7


p 550: Admin BCU #1

Partition 0gpfs, stage



• Redundancy at various hardware levels allows for transparent failures

E.g., disk failures, HBAs, storage controllers, network port failures

DB2 / Cognos / other software continues to run with possible performance impact

• Some failures cause downtime

E.g., server failures, software crashes (AIX, DB2, Cognos)

Can be handled via: • A) dual-active environment (such as a DR site), or • B) failover to a different node via a cluster management software (e.g., TSA)

IBM Smart Analytics SystemHandling Features

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The IBM Smart Analytics SystemPreconfigured, optimized and ready to build BI solutions

Configure OptimizeInstall

12 Days

• In the first 12 days (for XS, S and M) …• System is ready to create data and analytics models

• Cognos 8 Business Intelligence is highly optimized for the IBM Smart Analytics System platform

• InfoSphere Warehouse is fully optimized and tuned

• High availability and failover are fully configured

• …Ready to model, develop, deploy and maintain business analytics applications

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IBM Smart Analytics System Support

ServerStorage

Operating Sys ISWCognos

Entire Solution Supported Holistically• Integrated Stack Support• Single Point of EntryPremium support for Global Installation• Named individual assigned to manage

relationship• Guidance in long-term configuration

management & best practices• Proactive support and Skill sharing• Anticipates impact problem in one

component may have on another

Alerts to ProblemsFound Elsewhere &Recommendations

Advisory: MaintainingCompliance & Best

Practices

Mgmt of Open Issues Requiring

Extra Focus

Steer to EducationalConference Calls &

Materials

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Pre-optimized Business Intelligence SoftwareTriples out of the box performance*3X Faster

50% Less 50% less floor space than competitors from superior database compression, server & storage performance*

* Based on IBM Laboratory Tests. Actual results may vary depending on specific environment and

configuration.

IBM Smart Analytics SystemHigh Performance Drives Lower Costs



Overall System Performance & SpeedFastest and Always Up !!



IBM Smart Analytics System Benefits

Reach more users with the right information, where, when and how they need it– Executives, business managers, business analysts,

customers, partners and employees

• Deliver information with constant high performance• Fully integrated and optimized analytics and BI

• Seamlessly deliver rapid responses to mixed workloads and diverse query types

• Cost effectively scale to meet growing demands• Maintain high availability for mission critical applications

• Implement Rapidly and Focus on delivering Answers to Business requests.

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