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IBM Power servers

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What is IBM Power servers?

The IBM Power product line is a family of servers.

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Product Details

What is IBM Power servers?

IBM Power servers are designed for the most demanding, data-intensive computing imaginable, while keeping the business protected.

IBM offers Power10 processor-based servers, available in scale-out or scale-up variants.

The vendor promises the following benefits and differentiators:

Delivered with security

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*, IBM Power servers aim to deliver the reliable on-premises infrastructure to meet around-the-clock customer demands.

Value and performance
Power servers boast superior core performance and memory bandwidth to deliver both performance and price-performance advantages.

IBM Power servers Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsLinux, AIX, IBM i
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

The IBM Power product line is a family of servers.

Dell PowerEdge R, HPE ProLiant DL, and Supermicro Twin are common alternatives for IBM Power servers.

Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 9.6.

The most common users of IBM Power servers are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The platform handles even the most demanding applications easily. These servers can handle complex tasks and huge data transfers because to their powerful CPUs, fast memory. Also logical partitioning lets a physical server host many VMs running different operating systems, each with its own benefits.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Support of ibm I workloads in a single server. It’s processing power and virtualization features allow dynamic resource sharing between lpars and there are less hw to maintain. We currently have 4 production lpars sharing processing power.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The most common users of IBM POWER9 Servers are from Enterprises and the Information Technology & Services industry. IBM has done a very good job in maximizing its system to run SAP very efficiently in large-scale environments.
Lisa Walker | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Rack Severs secure our cloud servers that can easily handle multiple workloads streamlining IT infrastructure across the entire organization. We have a great choice of integrating our application with a cloud server of our choice that can meet our demands. The networking path of all our programs is always secure and no more worries of attackers or unauthorized access. It has secure storage devices that ensure that our files in cloud servers are secure.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using this system in a production environment to maintain the heavy workload because of its high performance. This system helped our company to grow in terms of responsiveness to our databases. It is a system that enabled us to increase our memory with ease especially with our clientele growing rapidly, databases/data are easily manipulated.
January 17, 2022

IBM Power9 924

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I believe this product is useful for any enterprise company. It has [powerful] processing units which give good performance and speed for any big software and database also which is used for a portal or product based or any big manufacturing company. Is also used for sap application along with HANA.
January 11, 2022

IBM Power System

Sanket Madhav | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
[The] customer was looking for high-performance servers with optimal cost to process [their] workload and also to meet [they're] autoscaling requirements. They have procured this system which has provided them with great power to fulfill [their] requirement. Hybrid storage option also was vary useful for customers for [their] storage use case.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Power system S922 is used to manage business applications to distribute pharmaceutical products. This powerful machine operates in a multi-cloud environment designed to handle several partitions with different functionalities such as reception of orders, order processing, and order dispatch. The P9 processor is much faster than the previous versions and it is significantly more flexible to configure.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The system is the backbone of our ERP Financials System, content management system and file and data distribution system. The system addresses our needs for managing financial data for our JDE EnterpriseOne System and related home grown systems that help manage our clients assets. The security and stability of the IBM Power Systems is why we chose to again go with this hardware. We have been on IBM Power Systems since 1989 and were one of the first installations of the AS400 System.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Power System LC922 is used across many departments and will be focused now to integrate multiple applications with a new cloud initiative. It's used to improve speed and processing time for applications and also reduces downtime due to software or hardware problems.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Power System S924 is part of [the project] and we are using this system for production [of] critical [database] to maintain the heavy workload for high performance. This system helped our clients to grow in their business. 4 TB memory [In-Built] with [a] system which [provides] the high performance.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This system hosts the Oracle database and Cerner Millennium middleware for Hospital information systems. Using Power VM we've partitioned this server into 2 hosts - 2 VIO servers, 1 Database server, and 1 Cerner millennium application server. The beauty of Power System is that it is very reliable, hardware monitoring is done very reliably through home calls.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller
IBM Power 9 Servers are typically used as an application server, either in an enterprise or departmental setting. They are also used as a database server for DB2. Their scalability allows their use in a variety of organizations ranging from small businesses and government scaling up to Fortune 500 enterprises. Traditionally IBM Power Servers are used for lines of business applications, but with the ability to run Linux derivative operating systems, Power 9 Servers also support a number of varying applications. IBM has done a very good job in maximizing its system to run SAP very efficiently in large-scale environments.
Hulisani Mbedzi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
The product is a good product and we never experienced any problems using it, the speed it responds and data transmission is very quick. I would definitely recommend it for other parties to use such a product at their companies. The product is very much affordable and worth a benefit to the organization as a whole.
Pablo Skardzius | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As part of our cloud solution, we used several S924s. Is a server with amazing scalability options and is very easy to be configured The farm was used by the entire organization as the main container. I used that solution for almost 2 years. After that period, I was assigned to another account, but the solution is still in place. During my period on that account, we only opened 2 hardware cases with IBM to solve incompatibility issues
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
We currently have several IBM POWER S924 servers for different purposes, we used them as colocation services and hybrid cloud servers, our customers can host their IBM I, AIX, or Linux LPAR on the POWER server, and our team of specialist do the hard work, administration, PTF management, firmware update, HMC upgrade, etc. The customer only needs to focus on the business we do the rest. Our customers came from a varied range of businesses, retail, banking or finance, manufacturing, and telco.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Power System S924 is being used in the organization for running its core business application. It is used by all users in the organization. It addresses the business problems related to high availability of application systems while ensuring smooth performance without affecting the security aspects of an application system.
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