IBM Power is doubling down on its commitment to help companies modernize with its powerful engine in 2023, according to a recent blinded internal survey of IBM Power done with client CIOs, CTOs, IT directors, IT admins, and developers. The survey reveals that clients’ top business strategies revolve around improving business processes in real-time, using technology in more innovative ways to gain a competitive advantage, and better secure their information. Other major objectives include ensuring the superior total cost of ownership, improving the performance of their systems, increasing automation for more productivity, and enhancing the energy efficiency of data centers.
IBM Power is designed for mission-critical workloads that require superior availability, reliability, security, and performance. In 2023, the company is doubling down on its commitment to help companies modernize with this powerful engine by unlocking speed and innovation with frictionless hybrid cloud experiences delivered in new and enhanced flexible consumption models, mitigating risk for business resilience with cloud controls and data protection optimized for the most highly regulated industries, and helping to save cost with increasingly more energy-efficient systems.
IBM Power has prioritized its focus and investments in 2023 across four critical areas to accelerate clients’ digital transformation imperatives. One of these areas is innovating key capabilities for core business workloads. The company is committed to continuing to strategically invest in three operating environments on IBM Power: AIX, IBM i and Linux. For example, the availability of Hyper Protect Crypto Services for AIX and Linux on Power Virtual Server has just been rolled out. IBM Cloud Hyper Protect Crypto Services is a 3-in-1 solution that provides enterprises with a single-tenant, hybrid cloud key management service, a Hardware Security Module (HSM) in the cloud, and multi-cloud key orchestration with Unified Key Orchestrator (a part of Hyper Protect Crypto Services).
In addition, to help small-to-midsize clients running core workloads on Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 (SE2) maximize their investments, IBM Power is rolling out a 24-core dual-chip module on IBM Power S1014. With the S1014 running Oracle Database SE2, clients can take advantage of best-in-class reliability and security and reduce total application cost per database instance by up to 33% compared to Intel’s 4th Generation Xeon Scalable Processors.
Another area of focus for IBM Power is to grow with SAP HANA on Power. With end-to-end security, maximal uptime and reliability, and up to 2.5x better per-core performance than compared x86 servers, IBM Power continues to excel in running SAP HANA workloads greater than 6TB for clients’ infrastructure needs. To support small- and medium-sized businesses, in particular, IBM is growing its SAP HANA on Power10 offering by making high-performance, scalable 2-6 TB bundles available, along with added-value services to address clients’ workload requirements.
The entire Power10 portfolio, which is now supported for SAP HANA, including its 2-socket and mid-range servers, now also includes Live Partition Mobility with virtual persistent memory. This feature is designed to reduce downtime by dynamically moving SAP workloads between systems while also enabling fast SAP HANA restart. IBM Power is designed to support companies’ workloads throughout their entire growth journeys. Moreover, IBM Technology Lifecycle Services provides support and services across the solution lifecycle.
Banking and industry modernization is other areas of focus for IBM Power. The company is expanding its 20+ year partnership with Temenos Group AG, a leading financial software provider. Soon, clients will be able to modernize their Temenos Transact core banking workloads utilizing Red Hat OpenShift on Power10. Together, Temenos Transact running on IBM Power Systems and Red Hat OpenShift will enable clients to take advantage
