POWER9 on IBM Cloud Will Help Accelerate Adoption of Hybrid Cloud

IBM announced that POWER9-based IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers are available in the IBM Cloud. Clients now have access to Power Systems Virtual Servers in North America via the IBM Cloud catalog to provide powerful scaleup compute for AIX and IBM i workloads for hybrid cloud.

This is all backed by the performance, resiliency, and security capabilities of POWER9 and Cloud. The launch of IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers builds on the broad portfolio of POWER-based solutions in the IBM Cloud including GPU-accelerated servers on IBM Cloud, SAP HANA on Power Systems on IBM Cloud, and IBM Cloud for Skytap Solutions.

"With cloud adoption taking off among enterprises, today's news further underscores IBM's leadership as the world's #1 hybrid cloud provider," said Harish Grama, General Manager, IBM Cloud. "By delivering AIX and IBM i with IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers on IBM Cloud, we are providing businesses with the flexibility to deploy even their most mission critical, data-oriented workloads across any environment - whether in public or private clouds or on premises.

Power Systems Virtual Servers deliver AIX and IBM i with self-service provisioning flexible management for off-premises workloads, and access to our enterprise stack of IBM Cloud services, all in a pay-as-you-go billing model which enables them to scale up on IBM's enterprise class systems to cater to their unique business needs. Companies now have increased options to explore hybrid cloud workload scenarios for disaster recovery, dev/test environments and partial IT infrastructure moves on POWER9's 2x performance per core compared to x86 Xeon Skylake systems. Power Systems also provide security built in at all layers, from processor to the OS, designed to deliver end-to-end security capabilities.