The Modern Infrastructure – Doubling Down on the Secret to Success

Where were you on Tuesday July 8^th, 2025? 

I was at the IBM Markham Lab for the launch of the greatly anticipated Power11.  More performance per core, more cores per socket with the expected server classes and names … all delivered, but to my surprise, not even the focus during the launch.  That is because Power11 is much more than just feeds and speeds.

IBM had been listening to its clients and listening as they did as they delivered on 3 strategic elements of the new Power11 servers. 

Firstly:  Even though IBM Power is already known as highly reliable and available with a rating of five 9’s of availability, clients wanted more.  Well, Power11 now delivers six 9’s of availability (99.9999%).  That is less than 30 seconds of unplanned downtime per year.

Secondly:  A full circle approach to availability that not only includes unplanned downtime but also planned downtime and cyber-attack preventions, detection, and remediation.  IBM has included the automation tools necessary to achieve zero planned downtime as well as reducing complexity, time and human error in the process.  Through advanced technologies like autonomous patching and automated workload movement, planned system maintenance events can occur without ever taking critical applications offline.  IBM Power interoperates with IBM Concert using generative AI to help identify operational risks, provide actionable insights, and automate remediation, starting with security patch management.  There is even a complimentary premium offering with AI-powered services designed to help proactively monitor system health, reduce downtime, and optimize system reliability and performance.

Thirdly:  Enhanced AI integration with 5 times boost in business process rates with AI integration into existing enterprise workflows.  IBM’s AI acceleration is not an afterthought; it’s the further enhancement of its Matrix Math Acceleration (MMA) that is built into every core, optimized software stack, to the upcoming off chip acceleration cards (Spyre), enabling you to embed AI directly into your mission-critical processes for unprecedented gains.  Imagine being able to perform real-time AI inferencing in place without missing a heartbeat, and without offloading to specialized hardware.

For those of us utilizing IBM Power today, we get it and can’t wait to get our hands on Power11 as we lifecycle our infrastructure, but for those of you who have not yet deployed IBM Power … it’s time to get with the program.  Hearing about this latest announcement should have you so excited that you literally have goosebumps.  THIS is the server that you have been looking for.  This is the quintessential computer system for today’s data center, be it on premises or in the cloud.   

In this day and age, you can't afford to NOT be taking advantage of IBM Power Systems.

Want to unlock these benefits for your business? Reach out to FAHM Technology Partners today!

— E Bruce Turgeon | Consulting IT Specialist & CEO | Q-Speed Enterprise Consulting Inc.

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