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 Outdated systems often suffer from performance bottlenecks, security vulnerabilities, and incompatibility with modern software.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. 

Disaster Recovery for critical applications is an important part of any Business Continuity Plan. Most, if not all, IBM Power servers, host mission-critical applications and the need for a standby server at a secondary location is essential for an effective disaster recovery plan. With the introduction of cloud-based POWER servers it has become much easier and more cost effective to have a standby server at a remote location. The customer does not need to purchase a server with idle capacity and host it in a remote datacenter to achieve their DR goals.

This past May, Red Hat released version 8 of its flagship platform Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). It’s been 5 years since the last major release and there are exciting new features that make version 8 the best Linux to run your business on. I'm going to examine some of these features such as portability, AppStreams, and a web-based management tool to make the transition to Linux much easier.

IBM has had a long-standing relationship with Linux and has been a big supporter of the operating system for a long time. In 2001, they invested $1 billion in support of the Linux community. IBM is also a large contributor of code updates to the Linux kernel and other open source projects. Because of this support, Linux has been able to run on all IBM systems from an entry level Intel based server all the way up to the zSeries mainframe.

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.