IBM Fusion

Streamline Hybrid Cloud for Virtual Machines, Kubernetes, and AI with Red Hat OpenShift.

IBM Fusion is a self-service hybrid cloud platform for Red Hat OpenShift that simplifies Kubernetes and management of virtual machines. It integrates with watsonx, IBM's AI platform, enabling efficient deployment and management of AI workloads. This combination offers a turnkey solution for running OpenShift applications and watsonx.data in hybrid cloud environments, making it easier for organizations to adopt and scale AI technologies.

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Analyst report

Gartner has recognized IBM as a leader in distributed file and object storage

Solution brief

Empower AI infrastructure with IBM Fusion HCI

Benefits

Accelerate time to value

Integrates hardware, Red Hat OpenShift and data services, eliminating compatibility issues and reducing setup time enabling you to get your containerized applications up and running in record time enabling faster innovation and reduced time-to-market.

Reduce total cost of ownership

Simplifies infrastructure and data services for OpenShift applications by enabling platform engineers to centrally manage OpenShift, streamline operations, optimize resource utilization and reduce operational complexities and costs.

Improve productivity

Enhances productivity by simplifying infrastructure management for platform engineers, empowering developers to focus on coding and innovation and promoting collaboration between both groups through a standardized, streamlined environment.

Mitigate risk

Enhances application availability and reduces risks of network and storage-related issues. A dedicated high-speed internal network paired with NVMe storage ensures that performance goals are met. Robust data replication paired with failover strategies, ensure uninterrupted availability of mission-critical applications.

Total cost of ownership

Find out the potential savings your organization can achieve by optimizing your virtual machine and AI workloads on IBM Fusion with our TCO calculator.

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Number of VMs

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Type of storage
Please enter the current mix of your VM load. The total must equal 100%
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Data Analytics
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Messaging
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Web Servers
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What percentage of your workloads do you intend to containerize in the next 2 years?
Databases
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AI/ML
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Data Analytics
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Messaging
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Web Servers
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What are the application availability and data resilience strategies are most important to you?
Snapshots
Crash consistent backup and restore
Application consistent backup and restore
Metro disaster recovery
Regional disaster recovery

$9.0M Total Annual Savings

IBM Fusion HCI System with local caching capabilities and IBM watsonx.data accelerates remote S3 queries by 90X

*vs not using IBM Fusion System caching capabilities with watsonx.data.

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Features

The core value of Fusion is derived from “Fusion 5”— five foundational application data services that deliver a consistent experience across public cloud and on-premises bare metal or virtualized platforms.

Data persistence

Platform engineering and application development teams gain productivity from Fusion's automation for data storage provisioning.

Data resilience

Ensures that data is always available, even during disruptive events or system failures.

Data security

Data encryption, retention and recovery to protect from intentional or unintentional data loss.

Data mobility

Apps need to run from the edge, to the core and to the cloud, which also requires your data to be mobile.

Data cataloging

Data scientists seek simple and fast ways to create actionable data insights at scale.

IBM watsonx.data with IBM Fusion HCI is able to deliver equivalent performance to Databrick’s Photon engine, at less than 60% of the cost.

*IBM watsonx.data with Presto C++ v0.286 and query optimizer on IBM Fusion HCI, tested internally by IBM, was able to deliver better price performance compared to Databrick’s Photon engine, with equal query runtime at less than 60% of the cost, derived from public 100 TB TPC-DS Query benchmarks.

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IBM Fusion

Benefits

Total cost of ownership

See how much you could save with IBM Fusion

IBM Fusion HCI System with local caching capabilities and IBM watsonx.data accelerates remote S3 queries by 90X

Features

IBM watsonx.data with IBM Fusion HCI is able to deliver equivalent performance to Databrick’s Photon engine, at less than 60% of the cost.

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IBM Fusion

Benefits

Total cost of ownership

See how much you could save with IBM Fusion

IBM Fusion HCI System with local caching capabilities and IBM watsonx.data accelerates remote S3 queries by 90X

Features​

IBM watsonx.data with IBM Fusion HCI is able to deliver equivalent performance to Databrick’s Photon engine, at less than 60% of the cost.

Use cases​

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Features

Use cases