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The secret sauce to mission critical workloads is IBM Power Systems with Industry leading Performance, Reliability, Availability, Scalability, Security, Virtualization, and Dynamic Utilization Capabilities.
... at a competative price
#1
Modernize in place
Modernize and automate applications in place and at your own pace. Adding Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform brings hybrid cloud innovation and management to enterprise applications and data running on Power servers. In addition, there’s the potential for organizations to see up to a 48%lower 3-year TCO compared to running the same containerized applications on an x86 server.
#2
Reduce core software licensing costs
The improved per-core performance of IBM Power10 allows organizations to run key workloads on fewer servers, in turn reducing software-licensing costs. For example, with the IBM Power S1014 running Oracle Database SE2, clients can reduce application cost per database instance by up to 33% compared to fourth-generation Intel Xeon scalable processors, and reduce the overall number of servers needed to improve energy costs.
#3
Strengthen security
A recent Information Technology Industry Council (ITIC) report showed that over 80% of survey respondents classify security breaches as the biggest potential threat to the stability and uptime of their on-premises, cloud and network-edge infrastructures and ecosystems. In fact, the average security breach costs over USD 4 million. IBM Power protects critical data and applications from cyberthreats with end-to-end security protocols, including new transparent memory encryption that doesn’t impact performance. Power is a leader in security, ranking 60 times more secure than unbranded white box servers.
#4
Scale affordably with dynamiccapacity and shared pools
Dynamic-capacity offerings for private and public instances have been designed to be easier to use, purchase and provision. Share resources across systems with no base monthly fees; instead, pay only for what you use with metering by the minute. Additionally, pooling with the Shared Utility Capacity feature enables you to create a pool of computing resources that provides flexibility when you’re managing large workloads, helping rebalance the resources to respond to business needs.
#5
Maximize uptime
Just like security breaches, unplanned downtime costs organizations money. IBM Power has delivered best-in-class reliability for the past 15years, according to ITIC.4It has consistently delivered better than 99.999% uptime4 and has built-in intelligent memory protection to detect and fix potential faults before they lead to system failure.
Source: IBM Paper
There are three performance sections here, the Scale-out S1022, Midrange E1050, and Enterprise E1080, plus additional resources on this landing page.
The S1022 is a price performing powerhouse.
The first benchmark demonstrates 3.5X more throughput per core, 3.3X better price-performance, and 57% lower 3-year TCO running Db2 Warehouse in Cloud Pak for Data on Power S1022 versus compared x86-based server.
The second demonstrates high throughput low latency AI driven fraud analytics within IBM Db2 yielding up to 2.4X per core inferencing performance, 2.3X better price-performance, and 58% lower 3-yr TCO running Db2 on Power S1022 versus compared x86-based server.
The third demonstrates modernized apps with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, yielding 3.6X more throughput per core, 3.3X better price-performance, and 46% lower 3-year TCO running containerized applications versus running the same containerized applications on a compared x86-based server.
Another one demonstrates reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) running EDB Postgres Advance Server 14, yielding 4.2X more throughput per core, 4.5X better price-performance, and 73% lower 3-year TCO versus tested Intel Xeon® Gold 6348 based servers.
Source: IBM Website
Streamline insights and automation
Run inference where your operational data resides with 5X faster AI inferencing per socket versus Power E980
Think about how PowerVM, IBM's Power System Hypervisor, provides dynamic resource sharing between LPARs within a system. Well, Power Enterprise Pools (PEP) takes that to the next level, allowing resource sharing across multiple systems and even across physical and geologically separate datacenters. And, I'm talking about PEP 2.0, the second generation of this offering. Forget about PEP 1.0, that was introduced way back with Power7. PEP 2.0 was introduced with Power9 and is available on Power10 systems today. What started out as a premium Enterprise Class server offering is now available on Scale-out Power servers too, starting as early as the Power9+ server models (what is referred to as the "G" models). One small difference between Enterprise Class and Scale-out Class is that Scale-out is PEP for processors only while Enterprise Class also offers PEP for system memory. But here is the thing, memory really isn't that dynamic, the real advantage lies with processor pools.
Processor utilization is metered by the minute. You can manage it all in one place with the Cloud Management Console (CMC), giving you a birds eye view of your resource allocations and how they are being allocated by the minute.
Perfect for High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) deployments. All the systems have all their resources available and active all the time. No dark capacity, no waiting for activations or entitlements. Only gated by your Enterprise Pool limits that you set. If disaster strikes, the primary system is no longer using resources out of the pool, you can instantaneously utilize them on the HA and/or DR system that are in the same Enterprise Pool cluster.
Source: IBM Website
"Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Power improves continuity to establish a hybrid cloud environment so that organizations can be ready for today and build for the future."
Proven security and reliability ... "empower[ing] organizations to modernize applications with a strong foundation built for security and reliability." ... "The compute infrastructure reduces unplanned downtime with less than two minutes per year, improving productivity for IT teams while reducing impact for end-users and critical business processes."
Infrastructure cost savings ... "Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Power optimizes infrastructure costs by reducing the number of servers needed without impacting performance. Teams can maximize cloud infrastructure utilization by dynamically allocating cores to busy worker nodes in shared processor pools. Container applications can also be colocated on the IBM Power server with AIX, IBM i [and] data, reducing the number of servers and minimizing risk for disruption. By optimizing infrastructure utilization, organizations can simplify operations and reduce costs, which can be reallocated to core resources to accelerate application development."
Efficient cloud infrastructure scaling ... "IBM Power provides a pay-per-use consumption model in both on-premise and off-premise environments and can scale applications up and down based on demand. It also enables low-latency connection between apps and data by colocating cloud-native apps with existing VM-based apps running on AIX, IBM i, or Linux® environments. Additionally with built-in virtualization, users can dynamically add or remove memory and CPUs allocated to worker node virtual machines (VMs)."
Source: Red Hat Website