As an IT architect, I help clients implement infrastructures that support their business objectives. The most common challenges I’ve witnessed my clients face with their IT infrastructure are cost, reliability, and the need to flexibly respond to changing business requirements. IBM® Power®, and the new Power E1080, can help.

The challenges IT professionals face today

I partner with experienced clients, IT professionals who are the unsung heroes of infrastructure, helping deliver mission-critical business solutions every day. Knowing that their industry changes quickly, they stay current with technology, so they can do more with less, ensure that their systems align with their business priorities, and adhere to budget constraints. They are the backbone of their organization’s successful digital transformation and ability to achieve strategic outcomes.

Nevertheless, challenges loom before these heroes, complicating their mission to respond to business demands faster, more reliably and more efficiently. “Cloud first” is often interpreted as simply moving as many workloads as possible to a given cloud vendor. However, since cloud is not a one-size-fits-all destination, moving workloads to the public cloud may not be ideal to achieve business outcomes. One thing is clear, a hybrid cloud strategy, with a strong on-premises infrastructure, needs to be part of your winning equation.

The Power E1080: An optimal hybrid cloud platform

IBM Power is built as a hybrid cloud solution by design. It combines greater capacity¹ with flexible consumption models, allowing for higher utilization and faster processing. Devised with advanced recovery, self-healing and diagnostic capabilities, IBM Power can reduce application downtime. Additionally, the processor at the heart of IBM Power is faster than x86 alternatives², delivering, for example, 4X more Red Hat® OpenShift® containers per core³. These capabilities make the Power E1080 more reliable when compared to other high-end servers⁴, in addition to saving you software costs.

Hear from William Starke, IBM Distinguished Engineer, Power10 Chief Processor Architect, about how IBM Power supports successful digital transformation and moving to a hybrid cloud strategy.

Protecting data at every level with the Power E1080

Cybersecurity is becoming a regular discussion point among boardroom executives, with leadership across organizations agonizing over how to protect their data. To stave off cyber-threats and ensure security from your core to the cloud, protection must be built in at every level, beginning at the core of your IT infrastructure. With this in mind, the Power E1080 provides support for algorithms for post-quantum cryptography and fully homomorphic encryption, in addition to encrypting data in main memory, which protects against physical attacks. Each Power10 processor includes accelerators that offload the work needed to encrypt data, ensuring that vital workloads are not impacted and keeping your data safe whether at rest or in transit.

Hear from Brian Thompto, IBM Distinguished Engineer, Power10 Chief Core Architect, about how the new Power E1080 ensures security at every layer.

Become an IT infrastructure hero with IBM Power

The heroes of IT infrastructure face demanding, complex digital environments, and these challenges require the new IBM Power E1080. The new Power server can deliver scalable, efficient, and sustainable computing with industry-leading resiliency and security, while also enabling AI at the point of data. As a hero you can optimize the solutions you deliver to your enterprise by building mission-critical systems on this new server.

>> See what IDC has to say about the new Power E1080.