With the release of IBM LinuxONE 4 Express today, small and medium-sized enterprises as well as new data center environments can now benefit from the newest performance, security, and artificial intelligence capabilities of LinuxONE. Pre-configured rack mount systems are intended to save money and eliminate client guesswork when launching workloads rapidly and utilizing the platform for both new and established use cases, including workload consolidation, digital assets, and AI-powered medical imaging.
Developing a comprehensive hybrid cloud plan for the present and the future
Businesses that swiftly shift their offerings online frequently end up with a hybrid cloud environment that was built by default, complete with siloed stacks that are unsuitable for AI adoption or cross-business alignment. 84% of executives questioned in a recent IBM IBV survey admitted that their company struggles to eliminate handoffs from one silo to another. Furthermore, according to 78% of responding executives, the successful adoption of their multicloud platform is hampered by an insufficient operating model.2. Another strategy that organizations can adopt in response to the pressure to improve business outcomes and accelerate and scale the impact of data and AI across the enterprise is to more carefully determine which workloads belong in the cloud or on-premises.
“Startups and small to medium-sized enterprises have the opportunity to develop a deliberate hybrid cloud strategy from the ground up with IBM LinuxONE 4 Express. According to Tina Tarquinio, VP of Product Management for IBM Z and LinuxONE, “IBM delivers the power of hybrid cloud and AI in the most recent LinuxONE 4 system to a straightforward, easy to use format that fits in many data centers.” “And as their businesses grow with the changing shifts in the market, LinuxONE 4 Express can scale to meet growing workload and performance requirements, in addition to offering AI inferencing co-located with mission-critical data for growing AI use cases.”
Accelerating biosciences computing research
University College London is a major UK public research university. They are developing a sustainable hybrid cloud platform with IBM to support their academic research.
According to Dr. Owain Kenway, Head of Research Computing at University College London, “Our Centre for Advanced Research Computing is critical to enable computational research across the sciences and humanities, as well as digital scholarship for students.” We’re thrilled that LinuxONE 4 Express will support work in “Trusted Research Environments” (TREs), such as AI workloads on medical data, and high I/O workloads like Next Generation Sequencing for Biosciences. The system’s affordability will enable us to make it available as a test bed to university researchers and industry players alike, and its high performance and scalability meet our critical research needs.”
Providing excellent security, scalability, and availability for various use cases and data center environments
Based on the IBM Telum processor, IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper 4 was released in April 2023 and has features intended to minimize energy usage and data center floor area while providing customers with the necessary scale, performance, and security. For customers with stringent resiliency requirements owing to internal or external regulations, IBM LinuxONE 4 Express, which is also based on the Telum processor and is supplied in a rack mount format, offers high availability. Actually, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform environments running on IBM LinuxONE 4 Express systems with GDPS, IBM DS8000 series storage with HyperSwap, and other features are built to provide 99.999999% (eight 9s) availability.3.
“IBM LinuxONE is quickly emerging as a key component of IBM’s larger infrastructure narrative,” says Steven Dickens, vice president and practice leader at The Futurum Group. IBM is in a unique position to manage mission-critical workloads with high availability thanks to the new LinuxONE 4 Express solution. This plus the system’s cybersecurity posture puts IBM in a strong position to gain traction in the market.”
The system tackles an entirely new range of use cases that small and startup companies must deal with, such as:
Digital assets: Specifically created to safeguard sensitive data, such as digital assets, IBM LinuxONE 4 Express offers a secure platform with private computing capabilities. IBM LinuxONE 4 Express now includes hardware-based security technology called IBM Secure Execution for Linux. For individual workloads, scalable isolation can aid in defending against both insider threats and external attacks. This covers data in use, which is a crucial security step for use cases involving digital assets.
AI-powered medical imaging: Clients can co-locate AI with mission-critical data on a LinuxONE system, enabling data analysis where the data is located, thanks to IBM Telum processor on-chip AI inferencing. To expedite business decision-making, health insurance companies, for instance, could examine vast amounts of medical records in almost real-time to verify process claims.
Workload consolidation: By combining databases onto a single LinuxONE system, IBM LinuxONE 4 Express is intended to assist customers in streamlining their IT environments and reducing expenses. When clients switch from an x86 server to an IBM LinuxONE 4 Express for their Linux workloads, they can save more than 52% on their total cost of ownership over a 5-year period. This product is designed to provide clients with significant cost savings over time.4
Enabling the IBM Ecosystem to achieve success for clients
IBM is working to provide solutions for today’s cybersecurity and sustainability challenges with the IBM LinuxONE Ecosystem, which includes AquaSecurity, Clari5, Exponential AI, Opollo Technologies, Pennant, and Spiking. An optimized sustainability and security posture is essential to safeguarding sensitive personal information and achieving sustainable organizational goals for clients that manage workloads related to data serving, core banking, and digital assets. Here, IBM Business Partners can find out more about the abilities needed to set up, implement, maintain, and resell IBM LinuxONE 4 Express.
Eyad Alhabbash, Director, IBM Systems Solutions & Support Group at Saudi Business Machines (SBM), stated, “We purchased an IBM LinuxONE III Express to run proofs of concepts for our strategic customers, and the feedback we have received so far has been excellent.” “LinuxONE III Express demonstrated better performance than the x86 running the same Red Hat OpenShift workload, and the customer noted how user-friendly the IBM LinuxONE is for server, storage and network management and operations.”
IBM LinuxONE 4 Express release date
Commencing at $135,00, IBM and its approved business partners will offer the new IBM LinuxONE 4 Express for general availability on February 20, 2024.
For additional information, join IBM partners and clients on February 20 at 11 a.m. ET for a live, in-depth webinar on industry trends like cybersecurity, sustainability, and artificial intelligence. You’ll also get behind-the-scenes access to the brand-new IBM LinuxONE 4 Express system.
Concerning IBM
IBM is a global leader in consulting, AI, and hybrid cloud solutions. They help customers in over 175 countries use data insights to optimize business operations, cut costs, and gain a competitive edge. Over 4,000 government and corporate entities in critical infrastructure sectors like financial services, telecommunications, and healthcare use Red Hat OpenShift and IBM’s hybrid cloud platform for fast, secure, and efficient digital transformations. IBM offers clients open and flexible options with its groundbreaking AI, quantum computing, industry-specific cloud solutions, and consulting. IBM’s history of transparency, accountability, inclusivity, trust, and service supports this.
