With the launch of Power11, we're excited to highlight some of the continued innovations achieved with ISVs, including:
"Power11 delivers full stack innovation that our ISVs are leveraging for establishing differentiated value by optimizing their solutions on IBM Power. By working jointly with the ISV Ecosystem Organisation, ISVs have been able to take advantage of Power11 innovations to achieve significant performance improvements, reductions in TCO, zero planned downtime with end to end automation and Enhanced AI Acceleration for customer engagements.”"
Rocketgraph on IBM Power helps customers to accelerate and scale graph analytics for real-time decision making. This can enable organizations to uncover hidden threats, map critical relationships, and dive deep into operational insights. Similarly, Wallaroo.AI has documented impressive results through their testing with IBM Power. Less than 30 minutes to build, deploy, and integrate AI in existing enterprise workflows can be achieved with Wallaroo.AI on IBM Power according to Wallaroo.AI.
IBM Power works closely with open source database vendors such as MariaDB, MongoDB, and EnterpriseDB. “We couldn’t be more excited for the launch of the new IBM Power11 systems offering robust performance and built to support the next generation of AI powered applications” shared Vikas Mathur, Chief Product Officer at MariaDB. “With MariaDB Enterprise Platform on IBM Power, organizations can leverage MariaDB’s integrated vector search capabilities with IBM’s in-core AI acceleration to streamline and simplify AI adoption in a performant and efficient way.”
As customers look to integrate vector search AI capabilities with core database workloads, they can take advantage of AI acceleration innovations on the Power platform which can help to deliver more accurate and informative search responses.
With innovations like zero planned downtime for system maintenance1 customers can help to maximize availability of mission critical applications. For customers leveraging core banking applications, solutions like this can help to increase customer satisfaction and trust with no planned service disruptions. In addition, banks can enhance their compliance posture by installing critical security fixes quickly with agile platform updates. “We’re thrilled about the transformative value that IBM Power11 with zero planned downtime delivers to our Finacle Core Banking customers.” says Girish G Kamat, AVP, Senior Product Line Manager, Infosys Finacle. “Harnessing Power11’s extreme automation, customers can perform platform maintenance without disrupting their core banking applications, ensuring near continuous application availability. This innovation enables our customers to match consumer demands for modern AI-first experiences while redefining the standard for system uptime.”
To help customers further enhance their security landscape, IBM Power teamed with Trend Micro to create secured work environments for their joint customers. Running on IBM Power, Trend Vison One™ can allow customers to stay a step ahead of cyber threats with scalable, high-performance security analytics that leverage AI-driven insights on IBM’s resilient infrastructure.
Carlos Gonzalez, Global VP Strategic Markets and GSI Sales at Trend Micro describes how “Running Trend Vision One on IBM Power, clients benefit from scalable, high-performance security analytics that leverage AI-driven insights while taking advantage of IBM’s resilient infrastructure.” Trend Micro’s XDR capabilities running on Power are engineered to provide advanced threat defense through technologies and human intelligence that proactively monitor, detect, investigate, and respond to attacks. Trend Micro’s partnership with IBM Power helps to ensure data is protected with comprehensive end-to-end security. These integrated security features are designed to ensure compliance with security regulatory requirements.
Power11 delivers differentiated value for IBM Financial Transaction Manager. Testing showed that Power11 delivers a 51% lower 3-year solution cost for IBM FTM High Value Payments for IBM Power S1122 versus compared x862.
Partners like Friedman Corporation are also sharing their excitement about the launch of the new Power11 systems. "As a strategic partner of IBM, Friedman Corporation is energized by the breakthrough innovation behind the new Power11 system” says Craig J. Skonieczny, President, Friedman Corporation. “With thousands of clients already leveraging the performance and reliability of IBM Power, we’re excited to deepen our collaboration and unlock the next level of value Power11 will deliver to our shared customer base."
IBM Power is designed to meet customers where they are and deliver value for even the most critical workloads. Cass Goh, Group CEO of Silverlake details how, “Across Southeast Asia, billions of banking transactions are processed daily through the scalable and robust Silverlake solution, powered by IBM Power running on IBM i—delivering dependable performance, operational excellence, and a seamless customer experience for financial institutions and their clients.” IBM Power partners with ISVs across the world like Silverlake to ensure that financial institutions have a robust choice of application providers that enable them to deliver critical services for their business.
IBM Power also works with service providers who help ISVs deliver as-a-service models with IBM Power Virtual Server (PowerVS). Alex Talmor, President of Glasshouse Systems describes that, “We are seeing a growing trend, specifically among IBM i based software companies, to transform their businesses into an as-a-service model. As an IBM Platinum Partner and a global leader in Power Virtual Server services, we help software companies extend their IBM i environments to the cloud and leverage the increased agility. IBM's Power Virtual Server capabilities, combined with GlassHouse Systems' expertise, enable IBM i-based businesses to regain focus on their software development and service delivery.” PowerVS can give ISVs greater flexibility for reaching customers where they are.
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1Based upon IBM internal testing of system upgrade scenarios; many (i.e.VIOS, hot plug adapters, I/O adapter FW, and concurrent system firmware updates) can be done in-place while some (i.e.non-concurrent system FW and HW maintenance) may require Live Partition Mobility (LPM) support.
2Based on IBM internal testing for FTM v4.0.6 Check data ingest. Transactions per second were measured for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 worker nodes running FTM v4.0.6 High Value Payments. Results valid as of May 29, 2025 and conducted under laboratory conditions, individual results can vary based on workload size, use of storage subsystems and other conditions. Comparison is based on an IBM Power S1122 (2x30-core/1TB) with 45 worker cores and 10 Db2 cores versus Intel Xeon x86 (2x72-core/1TB) with 108 worker cores and 22 Db2 cores. Tests were run with FTM High Value Payments accessing Db2 databases on AIX on a Power S1122 system and on RHEL on Intel Xeon server. Total cost of ownership (TCO)/solution cost is defined as hardware, software, and maintenance costs over a period of three years and price-performance is performance/3-yr TCO where hardware list pricing is based on IBM Power
S1122 https://www.ibm.com/products/ and extrapolated industry standard x86 list pricing based on IBM internal industry knowledge and software list pricing available at https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/cloud-computing/openshift/pricing.