IBM Power11 Systems
Are AI-Ready

If you’re running your core business on IBM Power, you already value security, reliability, and performance. But what if that same system held untapped potential to drive your business forward with Artificial Intelligence?

For many small and medium-sized businesses, a significant portion of their server’s processing capacity sits idle. The introduction of IBM’s Power11 servers turns that spare capacity into a strategic asset, allowing you to run AI applications directly where your most critical data resides.

Request a demonstration of AI on Power

This isn’t about a costly, high-risk “rip and replace” project. It’s about leveraging your existing investment to introduce powerful AI capabilities that can transform manufacturing, logistics, retail, and other transaction-intensive operations.

Run AI Where Your Data Lives

The most significant advantage of the Power11 architecture is its ability to bring AI to your data, not the other way around. Traditional AI models often require moving vast, sensitive datasets to separate systems or to the cloud for processing. This approach introduces latency, security risks, and operational complexity.

Power11 eliminates these challenges. With in-core AI acceleration, the processors are designed from the ground up to handle AI workloads efficiently. This means you can run generative AI inferencing and modernise intelligent applications securely on the same infrastructure that handles your mission-critical transactions. The benefits are clear:

• Reduced Latency: Decisions are faster when the analytics engine is next to the data.
• Enhanced Security: Your most sensitive business and customer data remains within your secure perimeter.
• Lower Complexity: You avoid the cost and effort of managing disparate systems for your AI and transactional workloads.

Flexible by Design: On-Premises, Cloud, or Hybrid

Recognising that every business has unique operational needs, IBM has made Power11’s AI capabilities available from day one on-premises and in the IBM Power Virtual Server (PowerVS) environment on IBM Cloud.

This flexibility gives you the freedom to deploy AI workloads where it makes the most sense for your business. You can start on-premises, extend to the cloud for specific projects, or operate a seamless hybrid model. By co-locating your applications and data with the 200+ services in IBM Cloud, including the watsonx AI and data platform, you can build and integrate AI solutions with your existing enterprise applications with very low latency.

Practical Tools to Demystify AI

IBM provides powerful, accessible tools that allow your existing teams to deploy AI without needing specialised data science expertise.

Seamless Generative AI with IBM Spyre

For businesses wanting to enhance processes with generative AI, IBM Spyre™ for Power offers a direct path. Spyre integrates hardened, enterprise-ready generative AI directly into IBM i and AIX environments. It simplifies deployment through standardised APIs, allowing you to move from cloud-based experiments to on-premises production in days. With automated updates and dedicated acceleration cards, Spyre delivers significant performance gains while ensuring your data remains under your control.

Modernise Applications with watsonx Code Assistant

Many organisations are constrained by legacy applications. The IBM watsonx Code Assistant for i™ tackles this technical debt head-on. It uses AI to accelerate the modernisation of older RPG code into a modern, free-form format. Early adopters have reported productivity boosts of up to 4:1, freeing up valuable developer time to focus on innovation rather than maintenance.

A Solid Foundation:
Your Data, AI-Ready

AI is only as effective as the data it uses. However, with data often spread across multiple locations, formats, and of varying quality, preparing it for AI can be a significant hurdle.

To address this, IBM is bringing watsonx.data to the Power platform. This is the only open, hybrid data lakehouse built for enterprise AI and analytics. It provides a unified solution to:

• Manage all your enterprise data, wherever it resides.
• Optimise for cost and performance.
• Ensure built-in governance and security.

With watsonx.data on Power, you can manage the entire data lifecycle, building a trusted foundation to fuel both traditional and generative AI applications with confidence and control.

Unlock Your Potential

The introduction of Power11 means your trusted IBM server is no longer just the heart of your operations – it’s your springboard into AI. By activating the latent capabilities within your infrastructure, you can enhance business processes, modernise applications, and unlock the true value of your data securely and efficiently. It’s time to explore the AI potential already at your fingertips.