2 years ago

Category: Software, Business, Data, Kubernetes, Infrastructure, encryption, automation, ansible, artificial-intelligence

IBM is rolling out the first of its servers based on the year-old Power10 processor, a system that offers significant performance improvements over its predecessor and forwards the vendor’s ambitions around hybrid clouds and artificial intelligence (AI). Big Blue has packed the Power10 E1080 with a broad array of capabilities that officials said will bring more cloud-like flexibility, scalability and cost-reduction features and that also will improve performance by up to 50% and AI inference by five times over its Power E980 predecessor.

The new system comes 13 months after IBM, after five years of development, launched the 7-nanometer Power10 architecture as a significant step in its hybrid cloud and AI efforts, which came armed with a bevy of hardware, firmware and security features designed to help enterprises more easily adopt hybrid cloud strategies.

The next step is to “really build on that as we announced Power10 with a significant amount of new capabilities. Those kind of capabilities …

With IBM Cloud, Big Blue is a player in the global cloud arena that is dominated by the likes of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.