Mission-critical Linux in your private cloud

Is this your situation?

• Distributed x86 environments have grown into high infrastructure cost, sprawl and operational complexity.
• Requirements for data security, sovereignty and compliance keep increasing.
• Workloads cannot scale without more floor space and more energy.
• Moving data for analytics and AI adds latency.
• You are expected to modernize with AI while keeping cost and risk under control.

A foundation for your private cloud

Keep data secured, available and responsive, and scale with business demand.

• A platform built for demanding, mission-critical workloads in virtual environments, where unplanned downtime is not an option.
• Built-in security for confidential computing, designed to help protect data in use, in flight and at rest, including with post-quantum cryptography.
• Maintenance and upgrades of software and hardware designed to minimise disruption.
• Consolidation that eases the pressure of rising virtualization licence costs, power demand and space.

Data serving

A secured hybrid cloud foundation for databases at scale.

• Designed for high availability, for organisations that struggle with unplanned downtime and unavailable databases.
• Optimized for I/O-bound database workloads, with dedicated hardware acceleration.
• Protection for regulated and sensitive data, at rest and in flight.
• High-density consolidation in a private-cloud-ready environment, so you can scale and react to demand efficiently.
• A modern open-source ecosystem: Linux, OpenShift, OpenStack and Ansible.

Secure computing

Secrets and keys are often managed separately for each environment, which raises risk, operational overhead and the compliance burden. Assembling a cryptographic infrastructure piece by piece is complex, slow and hard to budget.

IBM ONE Vault is an enterprise bundle for secrets and key management that includes hardware, software and services at a predictable, pre-architected price.

• One pre-validated, end-to-end solution for the data centre and for public clouds
• Enterprise governance of keys and secrets, backed by hardware and a network HSM
• Sovereignty and quantum-safe readiness built in

AI and agents close to your transactions

Regulated data makes it hard to connect AI workflows to transaction systems through external services. On LinuxONE, AI assistants and agents work next to the data and the transactions: they orchestrate workflows and processes, and reduce the manual work in setup, troubleshooting, incident response and capacity planning, with less data movement.

What the platform brings

• A high-density Linux platform that supports thousands of workloads in a single rack
• On-chip AI acceleration and support for dedicated AI accelerator cards
• Large scale: a multi-core architecture with terabytes of memory
• Built-in confidential computing with IBM Secure Execution for Linux
• Automation and orchestration for DevOps and hybrid cloud environments

What we do for you

• Assessment and sizing. We measure your current workloads and show what consolidation would save.
• Design. Architecture for availability, security and disaster recovery, with the storage and network around the system.
• Migration. We move your Linux workloads and databases onto the platform with a plan for the cut-over.
• Implementation. Installation, virtualization, Red Hat OpenShift and integration with your monitoring and management tools.
• Support. A response time you choose, health checks, updates and capacity planning, or a managed service.