Modernize Your Infrastructure with Red Hat OpenShift on Power10
Here in this blog, we will learn how to modernize your infrastructure with Red hat on Power10.
Rapid changes in the world over the past few years are impacting IT in a profound way. IT strategies are shifting to serve an increasingly always-on world and, for many organizations, it has meant accelerating digital transformation efforts. Managing and modernizing critical processes and operations remain top priorities for IT leaders like you who want to find new ways to gain advantage and opportunity in a fluctuating environment.
The question for your business, then, is how do you know when it’s time to modernize an application? Where do you start, and what are the best ways to make a business case for the investment in modernization? In this ebook, we’ll describe the best practices for building modern applications in an incremental, safe and economically sound manner. We’ll also describe how to avoid some of the common pitfalls that enterprises fall victim to, so that you know what to keep an eye out for as you embark on this journey. Examples include no clear business value, projects taking too long and vendor lock-in.
Drivers and immediate benefits
Application modernization is the process of updating an application so that it can be maintained, extended, deployed and managed in a way that allows the application to meet your current and future needs. Application modernization opens the door to several business and technical benefits for your organization. Let’s take a closer look at some of them.
Accelerate digital transformation
More than ever, organizations need to find new ways to provide innovative, engaging experiences that satisfy existing customers, attract new ones and gain a competitive edge. A Forrester Consulting study — commissioned by IBM — on the business value of modernizing applications with IBM and Red Hat solutions found that modernization efforts help accelerate release frequency by up to 10 times, improving customer engagement, time to market and operations
Gain a superior developer experience
Your organization’s most valuable assets are its people. When it comes to uncovering hidden competitive advantages through IT, you want to ensure your application developers always have the right set of technologies — and the most up-to-date applications — at their fingertips to unleash their creativity and build truly amazing customer experiences.
Deploy enterprise applications across your hybrid multicloud
As enterprises further embrace a hybrid cloud strategy, it’s critically important that applications have the flexibility to be deployed anywhere across this landscape to reap the full benefits. This flexibility allows you to use the continuous innovation that’s happening across public cloud providers along with the security, data privacy and reliability of your own data center. This level of choice and flexibility is paramount for successful competitive differentiation in today’s market.
Four actions to modernize your applications
- Assess current applications
- Modernize incrementally
- Embrace a DevOps culture across the board
- Enhance heritage applications and enable enterprise automation.
Use the strengths and benefits of IBM Power
IBM Power is an industry leader in reliablity, performance and security. Not only does the IT infrastructure provide superior compute performance for data-intensive and mission-critical applications, it also provides an excellent foundation for modern container-based applications of all flavors, for example: web and middleware, cloud and DevOps, modern programming languages and runtimes, databases, analytics and monitoring.
Benefits
Flexible, efficient utilization
Manage spikes and support more cloud workloads per server with the on-demand CPU capacity of the IBM® PowerVM® hypervisor, and by sharing pools of CPU cores across Red Hat OpenShift CoreOS nodes. Differentiating hypervisor constructs, such as uncapped processors and shared processor pools, provide the ability to guarantee performance service-level agreements (SLAs) while donating unused processor cycles to worker nodes in need of additional capacity. These advanced capabilities contribute to the foundation of IBM’s 80% utilization guarantee on an IBM Power E1080 server.
More performance from software with fewer servers
Enable 34.3 times more throughput per core and 48% lower 3-year total cost of ownership (TCO) by running containerized applications and databases on an IBM Power E1080 server, compared to running the same containerized applications on an x86 server.3 Colocate cloud-native applications with AIX, IBM1 and Linux®
virtual machine-based applications and enterprise data to exploit low-latency API connections to business-critical
data. Use subcapacity licensing to greatly reduce containerize software license costs — for example, IBM Cloud® Paks, using PowerVM shared processor pools, allowing CPU cores to be autonomously shared across Red Hat OpenShift worker nodes without sacrificing application performance. This method means needing to buy fewer IBM Power servers to run an equivalent set of applications at comparable throughput levels than on competing platforms.
Bring gravity to your enterprise data
IBM Power houses your enterprise’s mission-critical data. Running Red Hat OpenShift in a virtual machine adjacent to your AIX, IBM i or Linux virtual machines provides low-latency secured communication to your enterprise data by way of the PowerVM virtual I/O server. This method provides superior performance due to fewer network hops. It also allows for highly secured communication between your new cloud-native applications and your enterprise data stores, as network traffic never has to leave the physical server.
Trusted security and resiliency
Use the server platform that’s built to drive reliability and zero security vulnerabilities.
