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Chapter 1. Introduction to IBM Flex Systems and IBM PureSystems offerings 

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With the IBM PureApplication System, you can provision your own patterns of software, 
middleware and virtual system resources. You can provision these patterns within a unique 
framework that is shaped by IT best practices and industry standards—standards that have 
been developed from many years of IBM experience with clients and from a deep 
understanding of smarter computing. These IT best practices and standards are infused 
throughout the system.

With IBM PureApplication System:

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IBM builds expertise into preintegrated deployment patterns, which can speed the 
development and delivery of new services. 

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By automating key processes such as application deployment, PureApplication System 
built-in expertise capabilities can reduce the cost and time required to manage an 
infrastructure.

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Built-in application optimization expertise reduces the number of unplanned outages 
through best practices and automation of the manual processes identified as sources of 
those outages. 

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Administrators can use built-in application elasticity to scale up or to scale down 
automatically. Systems can use data replication to increase availability. 

Patterns of expertise can automatically balance, manage and optimize the elements 
necessary, from the underlying hardware resources up through the middleware and software. 
These patterns of expertise help deliver and manage business processes, services and 
applications by encapsulating best practices and expertise into a repeatable and deployable 
form. This best-practice knowledge and expertise has been gained from decades of 
optimizing the deployment and management of data centers, software infrastructures and 
applications around the world. 

These patterns help you achieve the following types of value:

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Agility. As you seek to innovate to bring products and services to market faster, you need 
fast time-to-value. Expertise built into a solution can eliminate manual steps, automate 
delivery and support innovation.

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Efficiency. To reduce costs and conserve valuable resources, you must get the most out of 
your systems with energy efficiency, simple management and fast, automated response to 
problems. With built-in expertise, you can optimize your critical business applications and 
get the most out of your investments.

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Increased simplicity. You need a less complex environment. Patterns of expertise can help 
you easily consolidate diverse servers, storage and applications onto an 
easier-to-manage, integrated system.

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Control. With optimized patterns of expertise, you can accelerate cloud implementations 
to lower risk by improving security and reducing human error.

IBM PureApplication System is available in four configurations. These configuration options 
enable you to choose the size and compute power that meets your needs for application 
infrastructure. You can upgrade to the next size when your organization requires more 
capacity, and in most cases, you can do so without application downtime.

Table 1-2 on page 8 provides a high-level overview of the configurations.

Note: IBM Flex System V7000 Storage Node is currently not offered in IBM 
PureApplication Systems. Currently the only available storage for IBM PureApplication 
Systems is IBM Storwize V7000.