Overall, the newest Power Systems and PureApplication System offerings with the POWER7+ architecture deliver tangible and excellent value for all classes of businesses from SMBs to large enterprises. Existing IBM customers and prospective customers alike will be well served by the Power Systems’ improved performance and throughput, improved consolidation, energy efficiency and world class RAS.

#IBM Systems - our short guide to all of its many announcements today wp.me/pubL5-1C1

“It does require a lot of expertise, and it costs money and time and effort. IBM realized that here’s an opportunity for SMBs that haven’t been able to get involved in big data…to allow them to deploy big data and start using it, at least in a modified fashion, at a price point that is feasible for small businesses,” Kelly says.

IBM Challenges x86 Dominance in SMB, Enterprise Data Centers with Power Systems7+ Announcement bit.ly/WrDTlz

#IBM puts supercomputer #Watson's smarts in #SMB servers | PCWorld pcworld.com/article/202714… via @pcworld #CIO #CNBC

“I.B.M. is bringing the actual price down to be very, very competitive,” said Jean S. Bozman, an analyst at IDC. “And they have to do it.”

I'm really liking the low end #powersystems boxes to competitively compete against x86-64.

“But IBM is gaining a larger slice of a shrinking pie,” IDC analyst Jean Bozman tells Information Week.

Thinking about why IBM views Big Data as a killer app for the Power Series platform tinyurl.com/auvy9su

#IBM announces 3 PureData platforms wp.me/pubL5-1BS

great talk -Emile Werr, Prod. Dev. NYSE Big Data Grp - uses Netezza- also big data federated meta data for all types of data.#bigdata#IBM

Forrester Research analyst Rich Fichera said that while the product range would not "make or break IBM," it was a signal to competitors and customers alike. "They are serving notice to competitors saying we are not giving up and by continuing to offer ever-improving performance to customers, they are making sure there's no temptation to switch," he said.

IBM slashing Power machine pricing down to x86 range to penetrate Hadoop territory nyti.ms/12oxYRD 'I can get it for you wholesale' ;)

“x86-comparable” pricing for Power 710 and 730 is among today's #PowerSystems announcements ow.ly/hqVtV #IBMi

IBM is infering that Power servers now compete against Intel for many analytic workloads - NYTimes.com ow.ly/hr4Pf

IMO global integrated enterprise becomes a global innovative enterprise using social tools #ibmpuresummit

#IBM's Bernie Meyerson at #IBMPureSummit: Advances through efficiency must be achieved by deeper analytics. Gives big $ savings examples.

Only matter of time (2015?) before large scale customer migration to public cloud occurs - so MSP outreach by IBM is good #ibmpuresummit

With PureFlex, IBM has a compelling consolidation story spanning workloads running Windows, Linux, AIX and IBM i. #IBMPureSummit