ARMONK, N.Y., June 17, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE:
IBM) today announced that IBM POWER9-based IBM Power Systems
Virtual Servers are now available in the IBM Cloud. Clients now
have access to IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers in North America via the IBM Cloud catalog to
provide powerful scaleup compute for AIX and IBM i workloads for
hybrid cloud. This is all backed by the performance, resiliency,
and security capabilities of IBM POWER9 and IBM Cloud. The launch
of IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers builds on the broad portfolio
of POWER-based solutions in the IBM Cloud including GPU-accelerated
servers on IBM Cloud, SAP HANA on Power Systems on IBM Cloud, and
IBM Cloud for Skytap Solutions.
To stay competitive, we see that enterprises are increasingly
looking to adopt hybrid cloud strategies to help optimize
everything from supply chains to sales. In fact, according to IDC,
90% of enterprises will embrace integrated hybrid cloud services,
tools and strategies to support different applications and use
cases by 2024i.
"With cloud adoption taking off among enterprises, today's news
further underscores IBM's leadership as the world's #1 hybrid cloud
provider," said Harish Grama, General Manager, IBM Cloud. "By
delivering AIX and IBM i with IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers on
IBM Cloud, we are providing businesses with the flexibility to
deploy even their most mission critical, data-oriented workloads
across any environment - whether in public or private clouds or on
premises."
IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers Enable Choice and
Flexibility for Hybrid Cloud
IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers deliver AIX and IBM i
with fast, self-service provisioning, flexible management for
off-premises workloads, and access to our enterprise stack of IBM
Cloud services – all in a pay-as-you-go billing model which enables
them to scale up on IBM's enterprise class systems to cater to
their unique business needs. Companies now have increased options
to explore hybrid cloud workload scenarios for disaster recovery,
dev/test environments and partial IT infrastructure moves on IBM
POWER9's 2xii performance per core compared to x86 Xeon
Skylake systems. IBM Power Systems also provide security built in
at all layers, from processor to the OS, designed to deliver
end-to-end security capabilities.
For example, an IBM Power Systems client looking to run dev and
test supply chain workloads on the public cloud can use the new IBM
Power Systems Virtual Servers to provide the ideal scalable
solution for this hybrid cloud scenario.
IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers in the IBM Cloud were designed
so clients will be able to:
- Quickly and economically provision IBM Power Systems Virtual
Servers on IBM Cloud within minutes, on-demand to facilitate
scaling up and out.
- Deploy their workloads with interoperability between Power
and x86-based systems in the IBM Cloud where they want with
flexible, secured management.
- Choose their deployment by selecting their customizable
system's cores, storage, network, OS, and more.
- Unlock cloud services at their fingertips with IBM's
enterprise-stack of high value IBM Cloud services including
analytics, AI, security, Blockchain and more.
- Leverage a heterogenous hybrid cloud infrastructure with both
IBM POWER9-based and x86-based virtual machines.
IBM Launches New "Ready for IBM Power Systems on Cloud"
Business Partner Program
In a separate initiative designed to build a skilled partner
ecosystem community that can deliver cloud solutions on IBM Power
Systems infrastructure, IBM today also announced the new "Ready for
IBM Power Systems on Cloud" Business Partner Program. The new
program will have a validation process for IBM Business
Partners. The validation will be largely based on their
technical expertise on Power Systems and demonstrated success in
helping enterprises with their business transformation and cloud
strategy adoption.
As members of the IBM Power Systems on Cloud, IBM Business
Partners will:
- Have their 'Ready for' solution highlighted in the Business
Partner Application Showcase, searchable within IBM Partnerworld
and externally from any browser.
- Let clients know that their solution meets IBM's client-centric
specifications for technical integrations, support, and
uptime.
- Use a new "Ready for IBM Power Systems on Cloud" badge to
promote their solutions.
"We have been leveraging IBM Power Systems to deliver hybrid
cloud solutions for over 10 years and to more than 1,000 clients.
It's flexibility and performance has been extraordinary allowing us
to differentiate our solution in the market," said Dave Wiseman, Vice President of Solutions
Architecture, Connectria who joined a pilot for the program. "By
joining the Ready for IBM Power Systems on Cloud Business Partner
Program, we're able to further demonstrate our expertise with IBM
as we help clients with their journey to cloud."
The IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers are available on the IBM
Cloud in North America. For more
information, please visit: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/
Contacts:
Sam
Ponedal
IBM US
916-217-0145
sponeda@us.ibm.com
i Source: IDC FutureScape: Worldwide IT Industry
2019 Predictions, (IDC #US44403818), October
2018.
ii 2X performance per core is based on IBM Internal
measurements as of 2/28/18 on various
system configuration and workload environments including (1)
Enterprise Database (2.22X per core): 20c L922 (2x10-core/2.9
GHz/256 GB memory): 1,039,365 Ops/sec versus 2-socket Intel Xeon
Skylake Gold 6148 (2x20-core/2.4 GHz/256 GB memory): 932,273
Ops/sec. (2) DB2 Warehouse (2.43X per core): 20c S922
(2x10-core/2.9 GHz/512 GB memory): 3242 QpH versus 2-socket Intel
Xeon Skylake Platinum 8168 (2x24-core/2.7 GHz/512 GB memory): 3203
QpH. (3) DayTrader 7 (3.19X per core): 24c S924
(2x12-core/3.4 GHz/512 GB memory): 32221.4 tps versus 2-socket
Intel Xeon Skylake Platinum 8180 (2x28-core/2.5 GHz/512 GB memory):
23497.4 tps.
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