Flexible and open operating systems
Get the best in both security and agility for your IT infrastructure with operating systems that flawlessly integrate into your overall hybrid cloud strategy.
Hybrid cloud requires OS flexibility
Navigate your hybrid cloud landscape with a comprehensive strategy that lets you manage your IT infrastructure at your own pace by easily accessing multiple operating systems (OS). Select where you want to run your OS or even run multiple OSs in parallel with ease and automation to make building apps simpler and more streamlined.
Benefits
Fully modernize and optimize your hybrid cloud strategy by supporting diverse workloads across multiple OSs.
Modernize hybrid cloud
Enable digital transformation by easily extending workloads to private, public or hybrid clouds.
Support emerging workloads
Encourage innovation by fully integrating your OS with the rest of your datacenter and removing silos around your apps and data.
Employ end-to-end security
Ensure the multiple layers of your IT stack are fully secure — from your hardware, firmware, OS, all the way to your hypervisor.
Power Systems operating systems
Open-source, scalable Linux operating systems
Linux® on Power® offers choice and flexibility to scale your organization and optimize your workloads for emerging business challenges.
Secure, scalable and robust UNIX operating system
AIX® provides the highest level of performance, security and reliability of any UNIX operating system.
Innovative operating system designed for business
IBM® i on IBM Power Systems delivers continuous availability, the latest security features, and easy integration with IoT, AI and Watson.
Hybrid cloud optimization
The foundation for your enterprise hybrid cloud
Scale existing apps and roll out emerging technologies across bare-metal, virtual, container, and all types of cloud environments with an open-source OS.
Run multiple POWER OSs in parallel
Innovate and quickly move between various workloads with the leading hybrid cloud enterprise Kubernetes container platform.
Build and operate a scalable automation system
Get the foundation for building and operating automation across an organization with all the tools needed to implement enterprise-wide automation.
Lab services for Power operating systems
Lab Services for Power Systems helps you deploy the building blocks of a next-generation IT infrastructure to empower your business.
Power operating systems case studies
Resources
Innovate with IBM i
Learn the business value and latest innovations of running IBM i and Power Systems.
Your roadmap to AIX
Discover how AIX will support your enterprise cloud and AI initiatives.
Unlock the full value of open source
Discover how to overcome optimization and innovation challenges for your enterprise.