ARMONK, N.Y., Aug. 27, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- As organizations look to take advantage of the emergence of cloud, analytics and mobile technologies, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that this trend is driving interest in IBM systems in geographies around the world.

In fact, a recent IBM study illustrates that four technologies - Big Data and Analytics, Cloud, Mobile and Social - are no longer just buzzwords but have become key ingredients of enterprise software development and IT infrastructures.  Seventy percent of enterprises are now using Big Data and Analytics, Cloud, Mobile and Social and 75 percent of enterprise decision makers now consider these technologies as strategically important to their organizations, up from 66 percent in 2012. [1]

"IT infrastructure is crucial to meet the demands of clients in this new era of computing," said Stephen Leonard, General Manager, Sales, IBM Systems & Technology Group.  "A new generation of IBM systems is helping clients modernize their IT environments for emerging big data, cloud computing, mobile and social technologies. Clients are migrating from non-IBM systems to infrastructures based on these IBM systems and the results they are seeing demonstrate that the right infrastructure does matter."

Clients that have switched from non-IBM servers to an IBM infrastructure to meet their Big Data, cloud, mobile and social needs include:

• Alabama-based Logista Solutions, a managed services provider building upon its expertise in data center implementation and design. After deploying an infrastructure based on IBM systems and storage, Logista is now able to design and bring new products to market in approximately five days instead of the typical one month or more needed with the company's prior infrastructure.
• Brazil's Algar Telecom replaced 80 Hewlett-Packard servers with an IBM mainframe platform, achieving savings of 50 to 70 percent in data center floor space, energy and cooling.  At the same time, Algar increased operational efficiency by 30 percent.
• The eThekwini Municipality, a government organization in the province of KwaZulu-Natal that provides civic services to the approximately 3.5 million citizens of Durban, South Africa.  Utilizing an IBM infrastructure, the government reduced the number of physical servers in its environment by 67 percent and reduced infrastructure complexity by 80 percent.  As a result, it was able to improve time savings by 90 percent and launch new products 92 percent faster.

The IBM Systems & Technology portfolio offers a wide range of options configured to help clients take advantage of new technologies in cloud, mobile and analytics. To find out why infrastructure matters, and for more information on specific IBM systems visit: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/infrastructure/us/en/

[1] Raising the game - The IBM Business Tech Trends Study

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