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What is IBM Cloud Pak for Data System?
Benefits↓ Use cases↓ Features↓ Expansion bundle↓ Netezza features↓ What's new↓ IBM Cloud Pak® for Data System is an all-in-one hybrid cloud platform in a box that delivers a preconfigured, governed and security-rich high-performance environment on premises. The system is built on the Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform and designed to collect, organize and analyze data to infuse AI throughout your business. These insights let you use data and AI services to accelerate innovation. The system combines storage, compute, networking and software into plug-and-play nodes that let you expand your system's footprint to meet your business needs. A single intuitive dashboard helps simplify software and hardware management. Read this IDC white paper to learn how you can accelerate your AI journey and enable faster realization of business insights.
Benefits
Simplify deployment
Rapidly stand up a new powerful, flexible data and AI platform behind your firewall — right out of the box.
Scale to fit your needs
Get pay-as-you-grow capacity with plug-and-play hardware nodes along with a deep catalog of data and AI services.
Unify IT asset management
Help simplify software and system management with a unified and intuitive dashboard.
Overcome data silos
Seamlessly connect and integrate data across all clouds.
Leverage high-performance hardware
Choose state-of-the-art, high-performance hardware that supports data and AI use cases and workloads.
Get use cases in a box
This system runs natively on Red Hat OpenShift to let you set up a Red Hat-based cloud in a box inside your data center.
Extend these benefits with an expansion bundle
IBM® Netezza® Performance Server builds on the hyper-converged architecture of IBM Cloud Pak for Data System to provide a cloud-native system of insight for your enterprise’s most complex analytics. Using both in-database analytics and hardware acceleration, Netezza Performance Server can help you tackle your most difficult geospatial and machine learning queries, returning insights in minutes rather than hours or days. → View the infographic (PDF, 3.7 MB) Learn why Netezza Performance Server is the leading enterprise data warehouse.
Netezza Performance Server features summary
Easy migration
Fully compatible with IBM PureData® System for Analytics, Netezza Performance Server enables single-command frictionless migration of your existing Netezza workload within minutes.
More performance for less
Netezza Performance Server can achieve 3 times the performance of legacy PDA with just 20% of the footprint and 50% of the power consumption.*
Built for today, ready for tomorrow
Running on Red Hat OpenShift, Netezza Performance Server is managed by Kubernetes containers, deployed through microservices and serviceable through call-home to IBM support.
Blazing fast and perfect for machine learning
Enjoy the same performance you’ve come to know from Netezza, now enhanced with in-database machine learning models, hardware acceleration and optimized high-performance analytics.
Scalable and elastic
Greatly reduce setup time with autodiscovery of IBM Cloud Pak for Data System. The system lets you flexibly expand or reduce compute and storage through plug-and-play nodes.
Bring AI to Netezza
Netezza Performance Server runs on IBM Cloud Pak for Data System. This capability lets you expand your Netezza workload with advanced data and AI services on premises using IBM Data Virtualization, IBM Watson® Knowledge Catalog and more.
Learn how to support all your data and AI needs
Do you have a cohesive data strategy and architecture to support all your data and AI needs? Read the IBM Cloud Pak for Data System solution brief to learn how you can quickly scale and deploy a complete private cloud for your enterprise data and AI architecture.
What's new
IBM Cloud Pak for Data System competitive analysis
Analysts at Cabot call IBM Cloud Pak for Data System "the ideal platform for clients who want to quickly get started on their AI journey."
IBM Cloud Pak for Data System infographic
IBM picks, delivers and installs IBM Cloud Pak for Data System components directly onsite, so your data and AI platform is ready to go.
Accelerate your journey to AI with a hyper-converged cloud data platform
IBM and Cabot Partners discuss how IBM Cloud Pak for Data System leads the pack, ahead of Google, Microsoft, AWS and Oracle.
See the IBM Cloud Pak for Data capabilities first hand
Footnotes
* Vikram Murali, "How IBM Cloud Pak for Data System delivers rapid value to data-driven businesses", 2019 (link resides outside IBM)