IBM Power Virtual Server
Thousands of IBM clients have mission critical workloads on-prem with IBM Power. Many of these Power clients running critical apps on P7/P8 want to lower infrastructure costs or get out of their data centers entirely. However, there is concern about the risk of refactoring critical applications as they consider Cloud.
With IBM Power Virtual Server clients get the benefits of hybrid cloud with consistent experience and connectivity to your Power infrastructure. Enjoy the same on-premises feel while taking advantage of all the capabilities and economics that a hybrid cloud solution has to offer.
IBM Power Virtual Server accelerates time-to-value, mitigates operational risk, and enables modernization.
Leverage seamless end-to-end solution for running production ready enterprise applications – from migrating on-premises workloads, to protecting against downtime and maintaining data integrity.
Benefits
Maintain the security and trust, high performance of IBM Power while modernizing at your pace and price point on and off premises.
- Enjoy a consistent hybrid cloud experience, seamless connectivity to Power infrastructure, and modernize workloads with services like web, DevOps, and IBM Db2®.
- Configure, multi-tenant, virtual IBM Power servers with access to IBM Cloud® services
- Grow at your own pace
- Extend workloads and take advantage of pay-as-you-use billing to manage costs.
- Optimize consumption
- Add capacity to your Power infrastructure on demand within minutes. Manage on or off premises.
- Run mission-critical workloads
- Work on nonproduction tasks and production environments simultaneously. Use virtual machines to help resolve issues faster.
- Seamlessly move and manage your workloads across cloud and on-premises environments.
Use Cases
- Business continuity planning
- Keep your business running with reliable failover solutions including backup, high availability and disaster recovery.
- Reduce capital expenditure, planning complexity and capacity headroom.
- Modernization & AI
- Connect to over 190 IBM Cloud services, with a cloud-integrated API that easily integrates with existing tools. Shift from buying maximum capacity to provisioning on demand, as needs arise.
- Application developers can quickly adapt to business changes with updates to Power workload
- Modernize business processes to deliver business outcome
- Containerize
- Infuse AI
- Data center optimization and operational excellence
- Optimize your data center to drive faster growth and global expansion by aligning with certified architectures and maintaining ISV support.
- Reduce operational costs and improve service quality with enhanced response times and flexible pay-as-you-go billing.