Power as a service (PWaas)
Run your IBM i and AIX workloads in a modern and secure cloud environment
Optimize your operations by running your critical IBM i and AIX workloads in a high-performance, ultra-secure cloud environment. Benefit from a modern cloud infrastructure while maximizing the value of your existing IBM Power investments.
Flexible and customized consumption
Deploy your IBM Power virtual machines in increments of 1/10 of a processor core, with flexible memory and storage management, billed per GB, for optimized consumption.
- Cost reduction: Eliminate unnecessary license fees and reduce your hardware costs by deploying only the strictly necessary resources.
The latest IBM Power platforms
Choose from the latest IBM Power platforms (P6, P7, P8, P9, or P10) to run your applications, while benefiting from operating system support ranging from version v5R4 to v7R1.
- Use the most recent IBM Power hardware without having to replace your on-premises infrastructure, ensuring optimal performance and continuous modernization.
Built-in regulatory compliance
Our IBM Power cloud data centers adhere to the most rigorous compliance and security standards, including PCI, SOC 1 & 2, HIPAA, HITRUST, ISO 27001, GDPR, CCPA, Bill 198, FERPA, FISMA, and many others.
- Ensure compliance for your critical data in one of our state-of-the-art IBM cloud facilities.
Resilience and High Availability
Enhance the continuity of your operations with high availability cloud architectures that include advanced backup, failover, and data replication features.
- Improve the resilience of your IBM Power systems by integrating robust redundancy and disaster recovery solutions.
IBM Power Virtual Server
Offers the best value for Oracle, SAP, and IBM i virtual machines in the cloud.
Oracle
The largest banks, pharmaceutical retailers, utility companies, industrial enterprises, and US federal institutions run on Power.
- Superior performance, resilience, flexibility, and security.
- Power offers up to 50% advantage on total cost of ownership (TCO) for customers.
- Power Virtual Server is the only fully certified stack offering complete support for Oracle on Power.
SAP
Power Virtual Server accelerates time to market, reduces risks for customers, and enables modernization.
- Accelerating time to market: Power Virtual Server enables seamless migration to the cloud with frictionless deployment.
- Risk reduction: Resilient infrastructure maximizes availability and reduces downtime.
- Modernization: Power Virtual Server accelerates SAP modernization, helping businesses improve competitiveness and reduce costs through the most granular SAP instances.
- 212% return on investment (ROI) for SAP on IBM Cloud over 3 years.
IBM i
IBM i provides continuous availability, enhanced security, simplified management, and integration with new technologies.
- Runs exclusively on Power and is risky to re-platform on x86.
- Near-zero downtime ensuring critical applications remain operational.
- Enhanced options to achieve higher security levels with IBM i 7.5.
- Flexible licensing and support allowing for reduced total costs and greater flexibility with OpEx consumption.
- 58% cheaper than the competition.
IBM Power Virtual Server Configurations
Discover our IBM Power Virtual Server offerings, providing reliable and flexible computing power to meet your business needs. With several options for logical partitioning ranging from small to custom configurations, you can tailor CPU power and RAM for optimal performance.
Our solutions based on IBM Power9 and Power10 processors offer increased flexibility and efficiency for managing critical workloads and demanding applications.
Key Benefits
Discover the main reasons why Power As A Service is the ideal solution to optimize your infrastructures.
Evolve at Your Own Pace
Adapt your workloads flexibly and benefit from usage-based billing to better control your costs.
Execution of Strategic Workloads
Manage your production and non-production tasks simultaneously. Use virtual machines to accelerate the resolution of your challenges.
Consumption Optimization
Increase the capacity of your IBM Power infrastructure on demand in minutes, whether on-site or in the cloud, for effective management.
Modernization of Power Workloads
Access innovative services to transform your operations, whether for web environments, DevOps, or IBM Db2® databases.
Seamless Migration to a Hybrid Cloud
Easily move and manage your workloads between the cloud and your on-site infrastructures without interruption.
Access to Artificial Intelligence
Enhance your decision-making processes and create cognitive applications by connecting your workloads to IBM Watson®.
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