Compact edge server with efficient performance and built-in AI, designed to streamline workloads and optimize business operations
Overview
Improve IT economics and scale-out efficiently.
The IBM® Power® S1012 is the edge-level server of the IBM Power portfolio. It is a 1-socket, half-wide Power10 processor-based system designed for both edge computing and core business workloads. It is available in a 2U rack-mounted or tower chassis form factor.
Features
Built for efficiency, scale, and resiliency
A slim half-wide design significantly reduces infrastructure footprint while maintaining high performance. Achieve up to 75% IT space savings, enabling denser deployments and efficient use of rack capacity for business-critical workloads in constrained environments.
Scale compute performance based on workload needs with 1, 4, or 8 processor cores. Optimize IT economics by aligning capacity with demand, reducing unnecessary costs while ensuring consistent performance for a range of enterprise applications.
Leverage embedded AI acceleration with four Matrix Math Accelerators per core to speed up inferencing tasks. Process data closer to where it resides, enabling faster insights and improved responsiveness for edge and real-time AI-driven workloads.
Protect sensitive information with transparent memory encryption that secures data in use and in motion. Safeguard AI models and workloads locally, reducing the risk of data exposure and ensuring compliance with modern security standards.
Reduce downtime and improve reliability with concurrent maintenance capabilities. Perform updates and servicing without interrupting operations, strengthening system availability and ensuring continuous support for mission-critical workloads.
Choose between rack or tower form factors to match deployment needs. Optimize data center space or extend compute to edge locations like remote offices and back-office environments, supporting versatile workload placement.
Use cases
Flexible workloads built for modern business needs
Support critical applications and emerging AI workloads with a compact, high-performance platform. Reduce infrastructure footprint while enabling intelligent processing closer to where data is created, helping improve efficiency, responsiveness, and operational agility across environments.
Teams can streamline IBM i environments by reducing infrastructure footprint by up to 75%. This helps lower costs, simplify operations, and maintain reliable performance for business-critical applications without overprovisioning resources.
Teams can deploy transactional AI workloads in remote and back-office locations, closer to where data is generated. This improves response times, reduces latency, and enables faster, more efficient decision-making outside centralized data centers.
Resources
Discover expert resources
Stay up to date with the latest information. Access analyst reports for industry insights, along with comprehensive documentation covering setup, configuration, and ongoing operations to help teams successfully deploy and manage their environment.
IBM® Power® is a family of high-performance servers built to meet today’s—and tomorrow’s—challenges.
Pricing
Pricing & licensing for Power
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