Upgrading aging infrastructure can be a dauting task, but is essential for maintaining business continuity, enhancing operational efficiency, and securing competitive advantage. Outdated systems often suffer from performance bottlenecks, security vulnerabilities, and incompatibility with modern software. By investing in new technology, businesses can improve productivity, reduce downtime, mitigate risks, and unlock opportunities enabled by emerging technologies, ultimately driving growth and innovation. In this post, we'll talk specifically about the benefits of upgrading from a previous version of IBM's Power Systems to the latest Power10. 

In the age of digital transformation, the endless rat race of staying ahead of the competition never seems to end. Companies must prioritize modernizing their legacy infrastructure to minimize impact on their operational efficiency, competitiveness, and ability to innovate. It might be easy to justify not doing so due to the costs and investment involved in upgrading hardware, however, the longer you wait, the more you risk falling further behind. 

Here are some key reasons why modernization is critical:

Undoubtedly, technology has evolved at a rapid pace over the past several decades and continues to do so. But some legacy machines that may be unfairly viewed as obsolete still hold tremendous value in today’s marketplace.

Enter IBM i – a family of mid-range computers that has gone through many name changes during the course of its lifetime.

As the image below illustrates: The evolution of IBM i began in the late 1970’s with the AS/400 (Application System/400) being introduced in 1988 as the successor of the previous two models.

Two years ago, IBM launched the OpenPOWER Foundation with 4 partners: Google, NVIDIA, Mellanox Technologies and Tyan. Today, there are 149 members across 22 countries with thousands of developers working on bringing new OpenPOWER-based innovations to market.

An emerging trend has seen customers increasingly looking at Linux to gain more flexibility and reduce cost. In addition, with the latest IBM POWER8 processor, Power Systems servers now integrate into any infrastructure running Linux with minimal interruptions.

Are you looking for ways to gain speed, agility and a competitive edge? In a world where competition is rapidly growing and margins are getting slimmer, organisations need to use their data to gain insights and keep their competitive edge. The explosion in today’s application market is almost exclusively around applications that deliver information from masses of data to countless numbers of end users devices. Therefore, in order to deal effectively with this deluge of data, organisations need extra performance from their systems.

Modern business today depends on IT infrastructure as its backbone. Organizations can exploit it to expand into new, fast-growing markets. It’s also critical to launch new customer services and key to leverage data and utilize data analytics within business processes.

Today’s business world is becoming ever more reliant on the data centre, which has become the heart of any modern organization. With virtualization and cloud computing proliferation, we are hearing that this is a great time to transform the data centre and empower organizations in the process.

Managing an enterprise data center today presents extreme challenges. As most companies, you are experiencing tremendous growth coupled with the multiple challenges from both an operational and financial perspective.