IBM Power has been running mission critical workloads for many years. With IBM Power11, the platform is being engineered even more deliberately for operational resilience, high availability and modern workloads such as AI and containers. In this 20 minute in-depth conversation, Triangle’s Director of Services, Brendan Healy, sits down with IBM’s EMEA Power AI and security principal, David Spurway, to explore how clients can design for resilience, keep data where it belongs and modernise on the IBM Power platform without disrupting core services.
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What you will learn
In this discussion, Brendan and David explore:
- How IBM Power11 is designed for mission critical workloads and operational resilience, across both planned and unplanned events
- Practical ways to handle firmware and operating system patching on Power with minimal or no service outages, so vulnerabilities can be addressed without extended downtime
- Real world examples of AI running alongside IBM i and AIX on the same IBM Power systems, increasing throughput while keeping humans in the loop for validation
- How to bring AI engines to where business critical data lives on Power, rather than moving sensitive data out to external AI services, within a hybrid cloud strategy
- Modernisation patterns using containers, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Power, including incremental approaches that add new services alongside existing IBM i and AIX workloads
- What IBM’s long term roadmap for the Power family means for investing in a stable, resilient platform that can continue to support innovation over time
Who is this for
This session is aimed at senior technical leaders and practitioners who:
- run or depend on IBM Power as part of a critical infrastructure estate
- are responsible for operational resilience, continuity and availability of core business systems
- are exploring how to introduce AI and analytics workloads close to existing IBM i or AIX environments
- are planning application modernisation on Power using containers, Linux and OpenShift
- need to balance security, compliance and hybrid cloud adoption for business critical data
Speakers
Brendan Healy, Director of Services, Triangle
Brendan leads Triangle’s services organisation, working with clients to design, implement and support critical infrastructure platforms across hybrid environments. His focus is on operational resilience, managed services and ensuring that complex IT estates support the outcomes the business depends on.
David Spurway, EMEA Power AI and security principal, IBM
David works with IBM clients across EMEA on IBM Power strategy, AI and security. His role brings together IBM’s platform engineering, virtualisation and security capabilities to help organisations design Power based infrastructures that support mission critical workloads, AI and hybrid cloud models.
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If you would like to explore how these approaches could apply in your own environment, you are welcome to get in touch with the Triangle team to discuss it further.
