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'Don't Change The Winning Team' Tak Berlaku di Jagat TI


David Webster (ash/inet)
Las Vegas - Di dunia olahraga -- khususnya di sepakbola -- kerap kali didengar istilah 'don't change the winning team'. Pernyataan ini merujuk pada sebuah tim yang sudah terbukti menang atau sukses maka diyakini tak perlu melakukan perubahan.

Hanya saja beda dunia, beda realita. Di jagat teknologi informasi (TI) misalnya, sikap stagnan malah akan jadi bumerang, dan pelan-pelan justru bakal menenggelamkan perusahaan. Walaupun perusahaan tersebut di tahun sebelumnya sudah terbukti sukses.

Hal inilah yang diungkapkan David Webster, President EMC untuk kawasan Asia Pasifik dan Jepang. Webster memang tak lantas menyarankan perusahaan untuk mengganti seluruh SDM-nya agar dapat lebih kompetitif. Namun yang dimaksud di sini adalah, perusahaan diimbau untuk peka terhadap perubahan yang terjadi, dari sisi internal dan eksternal. Menurutnya, teknologi begitu dinamis dan memberikan efek domino yang sangat signifikan terhadap berbagai hal.

"Jika teknologi berubah maka otomatis pasar berubah, pola bisnis berubah, dan vendor yang bermain di bisnis ini juga harus berubah, termasuk EMC," kata Webster di hadapan sejumlah wartawan, termasuk detikINET, di event EMC World 2014 yang dihelat di Las Vegas, Amerika Serikat.

Webster menjelaskan, di dunia kerja saat ini telah muncul kaum millennial (juga dikenal sebagai pekerja baru). Mereka ini lahir di era mobile, menduduki posisi-posisi di korporasi, dan memiliki harapan tinggi kepada IT untuk memungkinkan melakukan bisnis sesuai dengan cepatnya kehidupan.

Otomatis, perubahan ini juga bakal terjadi di bisnis Asia Pasifik. Perubahan yang disoroti ada tiga hal, dari sisi consumer to consumer (C2C), business to consumer (B2C), serta business to business (B2B).

Perubahan itu yakni tentang bagaimana pelanggan berkomunikasi -- seperti menggunakan media sosial -- bagaimana cara karyawan bekerja (BYoD dan mobility), dan cara bisnis saling berkolaborasi.
"Banyak perusahaan memang pada tahun sebelumnya boleh saja mengalami pertumbuhan, namun Anda (perusahaan-red.) juga harus berubah mengikuti perkembangan zaman. Ini mengapa dalam EMC World kami mengambil tema 'Redefine'," papar Webster.

Platform Ketiga

Dari banyak aspek yang mempengaruhi industri, Webster menunjuk 4 isu yang dianggap bakal memegang peranan penting di masa depan sebagai platform ketiga. Yaitu perangkat mobile, media sosial, big data, dan cloud.

"Menurut riset, pada tahun 2020 akan ada 50 miliar perangkat yang terkoneksi, lebih dari 2,5 miliar pengguna ponsel di Asia Pasifik, lebih dari 500 juta tweet per hari, hampir 1 miliar pengguna sosial media aktif di Asia Pasifik, serta belanja e-commerce di Asia Pasifik akan tembus USD 1 triliun di tahun 2017," paparnya.

"Khusus untuk big data, menurut riset IDC, belanja big data di kawasan Asia Pasifik diprediksi akan mencapai USD 1,02 miliar di tahun 2014," Webster melanjutkan.

Dengan data-data yang terpapar di atas, perusahaan tentu diharapkan dapat lebih melihat bagaimana pola dan tren bisnis akan mengarah di masa depan. Untuk itu, kondisi yang sudah ada saat ini, mau tak mau, harus siap atau sudah saatnya berubah.

Termasuk juga dari sisi vendor penyedia layanan seperti EMC yang akan melakukan perubahan dengan tema 'redefine' dari sisi inovasi solusi, partner model, serta kekuatan Federasi yang dibangunnya bersama VMware, Pivotal dan RSA.
"Kami sekarang terus berkomunikasi dengan semua pihak yang terkait dengan teknologi. Karena kami ingin membantu pelanggan melakukan redefining, maka kami juga harus berubah tentang cara kami melihat proses bisnis ini," pungkas Webster.

Khusus soal Federasi yang digawangi EMC, Joergen Jakobsen selaku Vice President Channel Operations EMC Asia Pacifik dan Jepang menambahkan, jika dulu EMC dan vendor anggota Federasi berjalan sendiri-sendiri untuk menawarkan solusi ke pelanggan. Namun kini mereka saling melengkapi, tapi tetap semua dikembalikan lagi ke pelanggan.

"Perubahan yang dilakukan oleh EMC juga terjadi dari cara berkolaborasi dengan para partner sampai akhirnya memberikan solusi ke pelanggan," kata Jakobsen.

"Kalau dulu, pihak yang terkait adalah vendor-distributor-consumer. Tapi kini ketika ada pelanggan, maka EMC bisa saja menggandeng partner lainnya untuk menawarkan aplikasi untuk mengoptimalkan solusi yang ingin dibangun," tandasnya.

What Is IBM System?


by Rush Lu

IBM Flex System is IBM’s first generation solution that integrates IBM System x (x86-based), IBM Power System (POWER 7 based), Enterprise Storage, networking, and management appliance in one single chassis. It brings a new era to our capability of meeting clients’ increasing demand of computing capacity, integration, optimization, security, cost-efficiency, and flexibility.
IBM Flex System is in a position to support technology advancement in the next several years because the availability of future system upgrades (with new designed compute nodes for future processors, memory, I/O, storage, and more) has been one of our top goals. It supports up to four 40-GBps Ethernet ports, which largely improves the Ethernet bandwidth to support higher speed devices in the future. Compared to blades, the IBM Flex System compute nodes are higher and narrower, allowing users to configure their systems with low-profile memories (blades support only very-low-profile memories because of a dimension limitation) to gain more reliability and flexibility for configuration. In addition, this new design results in more efficient air flow for cooling.

IBM Flex System has gone further than previous solutions, IBM BladeCenter-S and iDataPlex, to offer flexibility for users to customize their own chassis in accordance with their own demands of computing capacity, network bandwidth, storage size, and so on. BladeCenter-S offers small-size enterprise solution to integrate both storage (up to twelve 3.5 SAS/SATA drives) and computing nodes (six blades) in one system; however, the number of drives and blades is not adaptive to business change because of the limitation as a result of fixed Disk Storage Module (DSM) design. iDataPlex offers a 2U chassis where the customer can install two compute nodes or one compute node with one 1U disk bracket for storage; it also offers a 3U chassis where the customer can choose to install three compute nodes, one compute node with a 2U storage box, or two compute nodes with one 1U disk bracket for storage. IBM Flex System absolutely a game-changer, maximizing the flexibility of chassis customization for changing IT demand. It has various full-wide or half-wide compute nodes (x86 architecture or POWER), storage systems, and network switches, all designed as the IBM Flex System standard so that the customer can construct a completely customized chassis.
Another advantage that I have to mention is IBM Flex System’s revolutionary management appliance, which unites the management of compute nodes, network, and storage altogether. The management appliance is designed to manage multiple chassis in a single console. Compared to our previous solutions and those of our competitors—which require IT administrators to master several tools to manage network, storage, and virtualization—IBM Flex System management appliance’s simplicity and integration enables our customers to reduce costs for IT administration.
Because the IT budgets are not growing, today customers are increasingly concerned about how much they need to pay for power bills. IBM Flex System is among the top choices for its high-power efficiency. IBM Flex System integrates the most efficient 80 PLUS Platinum power supply, and efficiently balances the power across three phases. Compared to BladeCenter chassis, the IBM Flex System chassis has 25 percent more maximum airflow, and 25 percent less minimum airflow. This improvement allows IBM Flex System to save more power during light-load time and also provides enough power supply for heavy-load time, or to support future devices. Low-power-loss midplane and power connectors reduce the power consumption on the midplane and connectors. Unlike the two-blower design of a BladeCenter, IBM Flex System has six individual fans. With this design, the customer can match the number of fans to the workload and number of computing nodes. It is economic, compared to a BladeCenter, especially when the chassis is not fully configured. Extensive power monitoring capabilities enable enhanced chassis power management and power capping.

Rush Lu is currently the Technical Leader of IBM Asia Pacific System x and BladeCenter Level 2 (Postsales) support team located in Shenzhen, China. He holds a Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering and Automation, and had several years experience in robot design and embeded systems. He has worked for IBM for four years (one year in the US and three years in China) and has always been passionate about learning new technologies. Rush's primary support scope is high performance and high volume products; his secondary role is to support BladeCenter issues. He has been a key technical resource for resolving RCCB (one of IBM's VIP customer in China) Power blade issues. You can reach Rush at: rushlu@cn.ibm.com

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