IBM Power S1012
Improve IT economics and scale-out efficiently. With the IBM Power S1012, you can reduce IT footprint for business-critical applications and run transactional AI at the edge close to data.
The core applications, data stores, and processes that run your business simply cannot go down, no matter what. With the accelerator of digital adoption, the demands on those are increasing, along with the related security risks. To stay ahead of the curve, your IT systems need to be modernized to meet the challenges of today. This requires an infrastructure platform that efficiently scales to meet new demands, protects your applications and data with pervasive and layered defences, and enables you to transform data into insights quickly. The IBM® Power® S1012 is the edge-level server of the IBM Power portfolio. The S1012 is a 1-socket, half-wide, Power10 processor-based system designed for both edge computing and core business workloads. It is available in a 2U rack mounted or tower chassis form factor and delivers the lowest entry price point in the Power portfolio to run core workloads for small and medium-sized organizations. The Power S1012 provides clients the flexibility to run AI inferencing workloads in remote office and back-office locations outside mainstream data centre facilities, and in direct connection to cloud services such as IBM® Power® Virtual Server for backup and disaster recovery.
Achieving more in less space at the edge
IBM Power S1012 is designed to enhance remote management capabilities for clients looking to expand applications such as AI inferencing from core to cloud and at the edge. Edge computing can also provide a competitive advantage with real-time insights across industries, with examples that include analysing customer behaviour in retail; monitoring and optimizing production processes in manufacturing; and many others.
IBM Power S1012 is engineered to:
- Enable AI Inferencing at the Edge: By deploying Power S1012 at the edge, clients can run AI inferencing at the point of data, thus eliminating data transfers. Each Power S1012 includes Four Matrix Math Accelerators per core to support AI inferencing. To ensure insights remain a competitive advantage and don’t fall into the wrong hands, transparent memory encryption with Power10 secures data in and out of AI models running locally addressing data leaks. Moreover, with advanced remote management capabilities and Power10 best in class reliability features, IBM Power S1012 allows organizations to efficiently manage and monitor their IT environments remotely, to enhance responsiveness and minimize downtime. High-availability features such as redundant hardware and failover mechanisms can help ensure continuous operation, all within a compact physical footprint.
- Reduce IT footprint and increase core performance for AIX and IBM i clients: For small to midsize IBM i clients, the Power S1012 provides a path to the latest Power10 processor-based technology. Available with 1, 4, or 8 processor cores to improve IT economics and efficiency for business-critical IBM i applications, clients can improve the performance up to 3X versus the Power S814. Moreover, the Power S1012 2U half-wide design can reduce space allocated to a client’s IT physical footprint by up to 75% versus the Power S1014 4U rack server and allows for application and IT management convergence with the option to use one server for production side-by-side with the other hosting a virtual hardware management console (vHMC) or to be used for development, test or high availability.
