IBM is extending the capabilities of Power Virtual Server to deploy in a client data center, delivering the flexibility around consumption and management capabilities of the cloud while keeping the data on-premises to help address regional compliance and governance requirements of the business.
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 network infrastructure either in an IBM data center or within a client’s own data center, managed as a service via IBM Cloud.
With the client data center option, a local zone is deployed into the client’s data center and connected to IBM Cloud to deliver the same as-a-service experience as the IBM Power Virtual Server service running in IBM’s own data centers.
Enterprises can scale within a local zone or add new local zones with various IBM Power options to address future growth. Delivering an as-a-service model, with options for IBM site and client site, also helps clients enhance agility, reliability, and security, while optimizing IT operations to meet their diverse needs, according to IBM.
The newly introduced IBM Power Virtual Server Private Cloud is engineered to:
- Maintain customer data and workloads on your own site: Enterprises may have workloads or data that is regulated and cannot be hosted off-premises. In some cases, enterprises can have workloads that are sensitive or with ultra-short latency requirements that are better served on site and in very close in proximity with other on-site workloads.
- Maintain customer data in region and specific geographies in the location of their choice: Country sovereignty regulations require some data and workloads to stay in country.
- Provide a seamless hybrid cloud experience: Enterprises can foster a unified hybrid cloud landscape by seamlessly integrating Power Virtual Server running both at an IBM site and at a client site location with the ability to manage all the virtual machines (VMs) and infrastructure effortlessly through a unified user interface. Clients can receive the flexibility utilizing as-a-service with intentional workload placement on and off premises.
- Deliver predictable charging model with committed monthly spend combined with flexible consumption with metered usage-based pricing: Both IBM site and at client site offerings include compute, memory, storage, and operating system licenses that are fully metered by the hour allowing clients to pay for how much they use each month with no upfront payment.
- Streamline IT operations: Whether in the cloud or at an enterprise’s site, IBM manages the infrastructure, freeing enterprises to focus on business outcomes and less on managing infrastructure. IBM will own, deliver, and set up the Power Virtual Server in datacenter of choice, and provide a fully managed solution, including monitoring, security, firmware updates, and infrastructure management.
- Enhanced security and control of data: IBM Power Virtual Server is designed to provide comprehensive security for IBM Power infrastructure by integrating with IBM Cloud tooling to manage security. This alleviates the need to manage Power infrastructure security with the added benefit of maintaining sensitive data and workload on-premises.
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