Defining a new generation of software-defined computing infrastructure

To accelerate business insights from all their data, IT managers are adopting a new generation of technologies such as Apache Spark, noSQL databases and containers. But traditional IT server configurations, hypervisor environments and storage silos do not work well for these modern approaches because they are not optimized for distributed computing. IBM Spectrum Conductor with Spark meets this challenge with software defined infrastructure technology that is designed for distributed environments and enables organizations to deploy Apache Spark efficiently and effectively, supporting multiple versions and instances of Spark and a broad set of born-in-the-cloud application frameworks.

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IBM Spectrum Symphony is a highly scalable, high-throughput, low-latency workload and resource management software solution for compute- and data-intensive analytics applications. It can reallocate more than 1,000 compute engines per second to different workloads and, with sub-millisecond overhead per task, provides throughput of up to 17,000 tasks per second.