IBM Power 9
IBM offers the POWER9 series of servers, available in scale-out or scale-up variants.
For decades, IBM Power systems have been known for its scalability and performance with superior virtualization and management features for flexibility, high end security with better isolation and integrated stack, and its leading availability for 13 years running offering significant TCO advantage for customers.
IBM Power 9 Servers offers many advantages including but not limited to:
Built in security features
Power servers have security built in at all layers, from the processor to the OS to deliver an integrated end-to-end security solution
Enterprise cloud-ready
Power servers integrate into organizations’ private or hybrid cloud strategy to handle flexible
consumption models and changing customer needs.
Reliability
Boasts strong rankings in every major reliability category by ITIC* with 99.999% reliability rating, IBM Power servers aim to deliver the reliable on-premises infrastructure to meet around-the-clock customer demands.
Value and performance
With Power servers, clients can take advantage of superior core performance and memory bandwidth to deliver both compute performance and price-performance advantages.
This brings us to the 4 workloads that the IBM POWER9 Systems servers are targeted at:
| Deep Learining | Data Intensive Workloads | Enterprise Private Clouds | Big Data Workloads |
| Accelerated Servers | The Scale-out servers | Special line of scale up | LC Servers |
| Deep Learning: The Accelerated Computing (AC) and Inference Cloud (IC) lines of servers are specifically designed for AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning. With integrated NVIDIA V100 GPUs and NVLink along with the highly optimized Power Systems’ AI software stack, the AC line of servers brings unparalleled performance to deep learning training. The IC line (IC922) is designed for inferencing. Included are NVIDIA T4 GPUs, which are more cost- and energy-efficient than V100 GPUs for inferencing workloads, as well as support for PCIe Gen4 which allows for the use of other types of accelerators in the future. It’s also a storage-rich server, making it great for data and cloud workloads as well. | Data Intensive Workloads: The scale-out servers (S, L and H server lines) are optimized for database and data intensive workloads. These servers deliver the most memory available today in a 2 socket 2U server and also come in 4U models as well. With specific servers even for SAP HANA, these systems are unbeatable when it comes to scale out workloads like MongoDB, EnterpriseDB, SAP HANA, Db2, and more. | Enterprise Private Clouds: For enterprise private clouds there is a special line of scale up line of servers (E950/E980) designed for maximum application density and performance. For workloads like SAP where you have multiple instance and landscapes in order to run your enterprise, running these on a single system not only provides economies of scale, but also delivers world leading performance and reliability for mission critical applications. And for SAP, there is the H950 and H980 optimized for SAP HANA. Anywhere you need to consolidate multiple workloads to reduce cost and complexity, the enterprise private cloud servers is the place to look for unbeatable virtualization resulting in total cost savings over other offerings in the market | Big Data Workloads: The LC line of servers are designed to crush Big Data workloads. These 1U and 2U systems pack in the performance and I/O capacity required for Hadoop and Spark workloads that x86 systems just can’t match. |
IBM Power 9 Enterprise Servers
IBM Power Systems enterprise servers are accelerating cloud infrastructure by driving impact for an effective #hybridcloud strategy. Whether it’s growing a medium-sized business with IBM Power System E950’s extreme agility or developing a large enterprise with IBM Power System E980’s extraordinary scalability – these secure, reliable, and affordable servers are providing future-forward technology. Transform the way you do business and check out how enterprise servers will help you upgrade and simplify at the same time.
IBM Power 9 Scale Out Servers
IBM Power Systems high-performance scale-out servers are built to tackle the most advanced and diverse data-intensive workloads. These servers provide continuity for key business operations and processes and enable digital transformation by easily extending workloads to private, public, or hybrid clouds. Scale-out server solutions are vital for businesses today due to their high performance, security, and top-ranking reliability.
IBM Power 9 Accelerated Servers
IBM Power Systems accelerated computing servers help build the partnership between humanity and technology by implementing artificial intelligence and machine learning into your infrastructure. By optimizing AI and ML solutions with accelerated computing servers, you can benefit from HPC, analytics and AI training platforms, and AI interference servers that unlock the true potential of your data. Accelerate machine learning, eliminate bottlenecks, and deploy data-intensive workloads with accelerated server solutions.