Expand hybrid cloud and AI adoption with IBM Power Virtual Server customer site capabilities

IBM is extending the capabilities of Power Virtual Server for deployment in a customer data center, offering flexibility around cloud consumption and management capabilities while maintaining data on-premises to help meet regional compliance requirements and business governance.

On the market since 2019, with 21 data centers available globally, IBM Power Virtual Server provides Power Infrastructure-as-a-Service, which combines semi-configurable compute, storage, and networking infrastructure in an IBM data center or on a customer’s own data. center, managed as a service through IBM Cloud.

With the customer data center option, a local zone is deployed in the customer data center and connected to IBM Cloud to provide the same as-a-service experience as the IBM Power Virtual Server service running in IBM’s own data centers.

Businesses can scale within a local zone or add new local zones with several IBM Power options to handle future growth. Offering an as-a-service model, with options for both the IBM site and the customer site, also helps customers increase agility, reliability, and security while optimizing IT operations to meet their diverse needs, from agreement with IBM.

The newly introduced IBM Power Virtual Server Private Cloud is designed to:

• Keep customer data and workloads on your own website: Companies may have regulated workloads or data that cannot be hosted externally. In some cases, companies may have sensitive workloads or workloads with ultra-short latency requirements that are best served on-premises and in close proximity to other on-premises workloads.
• Keep customer data for specific regions and geographies in the location of your choice: The country’s sovereignty regulations require that some data and workloads remain in the country.
• Deliver a seamless hybrid cloud experience: Enterprises can foster a unified hybrid cloud scenario by seamlessly integrating Power Virtual Server running on IBM premises and customer premises, with the ability to manage all virtual machines (VMs) and infrastructure effortlessly through one interface. unified user. Customers can receive flexibility using as-a-service with intentional workload placement on and off premises.
• Provide a predictable billing model with committed monthly spend combined with flexible consumption with metered pricing based on usage: Offerings on the IBM website and customer website include compute, memory, storage, and operating system licenses that are fully metered by the hour, allowing customers to pay for how much they use each month, with no upfront payment.
• Simplify IT operations: Whether in a company’s cloud or on-premises, IBM manages infrastructure, freeing companies to focus on business outcomes and less on infrastructure management. IBM will own, deliver and configure Power Virtual Server in the data center of your choice and provide a fully managed solution including monitoring, security, firmware updates and infrastructure management.
• Enhanced data security and control: IBM Power Virtual Server is designed to provide comprehensive security for IBM Power infrastructure by integrating with IBM Cloud tools to manage security. This alleviates the need to manage Power infrastructure security with the added benefit of keeping sensitive data and workloads on-premises.

For more information about this new feature, visit www.ibm.com.