The results of a recent blinded survey of IBM Power client CIOs, CTOs, IT directors, IT admins, and developers reveal top business strategies, including improving business processes in real-time, gaining a competitive advantage using technology more innovatively, and securing data. Other objectives revealed by the survey included ensuring superior total cost of ownership, improving the performance of their systems, and enhancing the energy efficiency of data centers.
The results of a recent blinded survey of IBM Power client CIOs, CTOs, IT directors, IT admins, and developers reveal top business strategies, including improving business processes in real-time, gaining a competitive advantage using technology more innovatively, and securing data. Other objectives revealed by the survey included ensuring superior total cost of ownership, improving the performance of their systems, and enhancing the energy efficiency of data centers.
Since IBM Power is designed for mission-critical data-oriented workloads, including high-performance databases, analytics, and transaction-oriented systems, IBM considers IBM Power to be the engine that fuels clients’ businesses. With this in mind, and the results of the survey still fresh, IBM is committed to helping customers modernize with the IBM Power engine by unlocking speed and innovation with frictionless on-premises, and multi-cloud experiences, de-risking for business resilience with cloud controls and data protection optimized for highly regulated industries and saving energy and cost with green IT.
IBM is prioritizing its focus and investments in 2023 and beyond across four critical areas to accelerate its clients’ digital transformation imperatives.
Grow with SAP HANA on Power
IBM Power10 has proven to be a leading platform for servers. With end-to-end security, maximum uptime, and reliability exceeding 99.999 percent, 2x better memory RAS than standard DIMMs, and up to 2.5x better per-core performance than comparable x86 servers, it delivers flexibility and resiliency to the SAP HANA storage infrastructure with hybrid-cloud-enabled storage solutions.
IBM Power10, with optimized performance, allows businesses to operate with fewer servers, effectively reducing energy consumption and TCO. When Bosch moved its SAP solutions to Power10, it saw a 20 percent reduction in energy use and up to 75 percent performance improvement. IBM is growing its SAP HANA on Power10 to support small and medium-sized businesses making highly-performant, scalable 2-6TB bundles available, with value-added services to address client workload requirements.
The Power10 portfolio has been SAP HANNA certified and features Live Partition Mobility with virtual persistent memory. This helps eliminate downtime for server maintenance by dynamically moving SAP workloads between systems and enabling SAP HANA fast restart. And IBM has added Live Partition Mobility at no charge.
IBM Power is the market leader with SAP HANA scalable instances from 2TB to 40TB supporting companies’ workloads through their growth journey. At the same time, IBM Technology Lifecycle Services provides support and services across the solution lifecycle. This includes design and deployment, proactive support for resolution and prevention, and optimization services that enable customers to analyze and tune SAP HANA on Power, storage, and software.
Banking and Industry Transformation
To help banks and financial organizations accelerate digital transformation, IBM Power is expanding its partnership with financial software provider Temenos Group AG. Clients will soon be able to modernize their Temenos Transact core banking workloads using Red Hat OpenShift on Power10, laying the foundation for the financial industry to innovate rapidly and with agility, meeting the challenge of disruptive competition, staying ahead of cybersecurity threats, and reducing their carbon footprint.
IBM Power has partnered with IBM Consulting to support its clients’ journey to a hybrid cloud. IBM Consulting will offer services to update, migrate, and operate Temenos Transact core banking on IBM Power with Red Hat OpenShift as a SaaS-like OPEX core banking solution on-premises for its clients.
Flexible Subscription Services and Power as a Service
Supporting the short-staffed IT teams, IBM Power is implementing modern development practices and tools to the Power application lifecycle.
Offering businesses greater flexibility, Power is making its application development and modernization tool, IBM I Modernization Engine for Lifecycle Integration (Merlin), available as a subscription service to streamline ERP. Building applications on IBM I with Merlin provides developers with access to automated conversion of fixed-format to free-format RPG, built-in security practices, and modern development processes and tools like Git and Jenkins. This lays the foundation for faster provisioning, modernized applications, reduced time to market, and a single DevOps pipeline.
Innovate Key Capabilities for Core Business Workloads
In 2023, IBM is committed to strategically investing in three operating environments on IBM Power: AIX, IBM i, and Linux.
For example, IBM made Hyper Protect Crypto Services for AIX and Linux available on Power Virtual Server. IBM Cloud Hyper Protect Crypto Service is a 3-in-1 solution, giving enterprises a single-tenant, hybrid cloud key management service, Hardware Security Module (HSM) in the cloud, and multi-cloud key orchestration with Unified Key Orchestrator. IBM Hyper Protect Crypto Services lets clients control their cloud data encryption keys (DEKs) and Cloud Hardware Security Module (HSM). Built on LinuxONE technology, the service runs on a secure enclave, which ensures that no one, including cloud administrators, can access another user’s keys.
For small to midsize clients running core workloads on Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 (SE2), IBM Power is rolling out a 24-core dual-chip module on IBM Power S1014. Running Oracle Database SE2 on IBM Power S1014 lets clients take advantage of the industry’s best reliability and security, reduce total application cost by 33 percent compared to running applications on servers with Intel’s new Sapphire Rapids processors, and reduce the overall number of servers to support sustainability.
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