Overview

Flexible consumption for IBM® Power® is a pay-for-use model that allows you to dynamically deliver one or more resources on your private server as your business needs change.

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Benefits

Flexible consumption models for all your capacity planning needs

Metering by the minute of RAM and CPU

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Pay-for-use by the minute, plus get real-time and historical usage monitoring and analysis, giving you greater operating flexibility.

Minimal base capacity commitment for low acquisition cost

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Choose the level of up-front investment, activate as little as 1 core, 256GB up-front and then pay-as-you-go for additional consumption.

Pool resources to optimize total cost of ownership

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Only IBM Power lets you share your capacity commitment across a pool of resources, giving you maximum utility from your compute resources.

IBM Power10 Servers

IBM Power S1022 server unit

IBM Power S1022

A 2-socket, 2U server for business-critical workloads on IBM AIX®, IBM i or Linux® 

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IBM Power S1024 server unit

IBM Power S1024

A 2-socket, 4U server for business-critical workloads on AIX, IBM i or Linux 

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IBM Power E1050 server unit

IBM Power E1050

A 4-socket rack server optimized for data-intensive apps and hybrid cloud deployments  

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IBM Power E1080 server unit

IBM Power E1080

A server designed to securely and efficiently scale core operational workloads and AI apps across hybrid cloud

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Server capacity management

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Cloud management console

Manage and monitor your system information with cloud management. Set system limits, plus monitor inventory and performance in a simple and unified location hosted in the IBM Cloud®.

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Elastic Capacity on Demand

Activate processor cores or memory units daily, as long as you need to, by using a Hardware Management Console to temporarily enable the resources.

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Resources

Flexibility and choice with new hybrid cloud capabilities

Explore the hybrid cloud capabilities on IBM Power and bring new flexibility to your IT.

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The new way to pay for IT infrastructure

Better understand flexible consumption-based ways to consume storage, servers and software.

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Capacity on demand support

IBM's Capacity on Demand offerings are straightforward and easy to implement,  easy to order, and easy to use.

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Capacity on Demand developer resources

Learn more about Capacity on Demand and how it can help optimize your IT architecture.

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Next steps

Flexible infrastructure

Get cloud economics with pay-per-use, IaaS and pay-as-you-grow solutions.

Scalable servers

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Footnote

¹ IBM Power helps deliver a frictionless experience in extending mission-critical workloads across hybrid cloud, without requiring additional middleware or application refactoring.