What is IBM POWER10?

IBM POWER10 servers provide enterprise and SMB organisations with the ability to manage data-heavy workloads in a secure, hybrid cloud model. They bring greater AI infusion and enterprise workloads to the hybrid cloud securely – keeping data safe, increasing performance and delivering more memory availability.

Who uses POWER10, and how?

For enterprise organisations in industries including retail, telecom, financial services and healthcare, the POWER10’s goal is to be a state-of-the-art, enterprise-class enabler of an organisation’s processes that doesn’t have to live in a data centre. IBM POWER10 provide a way for users to run IBM POWER10-equipped servers on-site for high-speed processing that’s reliable and secure. For example, IBM Power Systems servers have been deployed in pharmacies that need immediate and secure tracking of patient prescriptions while complying with government privacy regulations. Telecom clients have used IBM Power Systems for enterprise-class AI and hybrid cloud capabilities across a network of facilities. And automotive parts suppliers use them in the increasingly automated world of advanced manufacturing.

Among SMBs, IBM Power Systems have been deployed to handle business-critical workloads in environments where bulletproof reliability and security are required, but they don’t have capacity for a larger system such as a mainframe, to run their critical applications. A mid-sized customer with task-specific computing requirements may not be able to invest in a raised-floor, environmentally controlled data centre, but may still demand an enterprise-grade server for sensitive and sophisticated operations. IBM Power Systems provide an enterprise-class experience with as much customisation as required by the user, anywhere it’s needed, reliably, securely and with new standards for compactness, speed and energy efficiency.

How does POWER10 help digital transformation?

POWER10 provides a starting point for digital transformation by bringing AI and hybrid cloud capabilities to organisations without the disruption of rip and replace. AI has to be trained and that requires enormous computing power that an enterprise organisation may not wish to dedicate mainframe capacity to. An SMB client may not have access to a mainframe, but IBM Power Systems servers can run AI training modules 4x faster than a larger enterprise system. It’s also possible to run AI inside applications.

For digital transformation, hybrid cloud is flexible, collaborative for innovation and fast to market providing users the ability to be nimble, pivot for new market opportunities and reactive to competitive threats. IBM POWER10 provides the foundation for the hybrid cloud environment.

Why POWER10?

POWER10 delivers enhanced security – all of the memory is encrypted all of the time without software cryptography, so there is no performance degradation. It’s also designed with a memory architecture for bandwidth and resiliency, and it delivers a secure memory environment which is incredibly important in the hybrid cloud when moving applications around.

IBM POWER10 delivers organisations a way to modernise applications to maximise value from their data, in a secure environment that defends against attacks and can automate operations to improve productivity. It’s perfect for digital transformation, provides more uptime for applications and less downtime for users and makes data more accessible for analytics and AI so organisations can make smarter decisions.