IBM hardware · Servers for IBM i, AIX and Linux
Maintenance with zero planned downtime.* Your price in one business day.
For the teams who run IBM i, AIX and Linux: IBM Power11, sized to your workloads by our engineering team and priced before you commit.
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Your next Power server can carry more of the upkeep.
- It runs live updates IBM designed for zero planned downtime.*
- It keeps immutable, air-gapped copies of your data with IBM Power Cyber Vault.
- It runs AI next to your data, on AI engines built into the chip.
The servers you run today may be serving you well. This is what Power11 adds.
We size it with you. You see your price first, within one business day.
Keep running through maintenance.
IBM says Power is zero planned downtime for system maintenance, with live updates orchestrated end to end.*
Recover from a copy nothing can change.
IBM Power Cyber Vault creates prescriptive, immutable, air-gapped copies of data to help protect against ransomware, in IBM’s words.
* IBM’s claim for Power, based upon IBM internal testing of system upgrade scenarios. IBM says many updates (VIOS, hot plug adapters, I/O adapter firmware and concurrent system firmware updates) can be done in place, while some (non-concurrent system firmware and hardware maintenance) may require Live Partition Mobility (LPM) support.
Source: IBM’s Power page, modified October 15, 2026.
Three of IBM’s own figures.
Up to 256 Power11 cores and 64 TB of memory.
IBM’s figures for the Power E1180, a full-rack server for the largest and most complex mission-critical workloads.
Up to 120 cores and 16 TB of memory in 4U.
IBM’s figures for the Power E1150, a 4U server built for memory- and data-intensive workloads.
2x the core performance of a Power S914.
IBM’s figure for the entry Power S1112, and 3x that of a Power S814. IBM bases both on published CPW results comparing 4-core systems, valid as of July 14, 2026.
Source: IBM’s Power page, modified October 15, 2026.
Pick the size that fits.
Five Power11 servers. The Power S1112, 2U rack or tower, for remote, branch and near-edge sites. The 2U Power S1122 and the 4U Power S1124, up to 60 cores each. The 4U Power E1150, up to 120 cores. The full-rack Power E1180, up to 256 cores.
Source: IBM’s Power page, modified October 15, 2026.
What you get.
If you run infrastructure.
You get servers sized to the partitions you run, from one 2U Power S1122 to a full-rack Power E1180, and live updates IBM designed for zero planned downtime.* Our engineering team stays with you through cutover.
If you run IBM i.
You get a software tier that fits. IBM supports IBM i on the Power S1112 within the P05 tier, up to 4 cores and 64 GB of memory, with the rest of the server free for AIX, Linux and AI.
If you own security and compliance.
You get what IBM calls quantum-safe compliance management: secure boot, a cryptographic inventory and hardware-based encryption tools. And immutable, air-gapped copies of your data with IBM Power Cyber Vault.
If you are the CIO.
You get one server family for IBM i, AIX and Linux, and an AIX roadmap and support plan IBM says extends beyond 2035. Pay only for what you need. See your price first, within one business day.
You have real choices. Here is each one, plainly.
Keep the servers you have.
Nothing to buy. Nothing to move. What Power11 adds will still be here when you are ready.
Buy from IBM itself.
IBM sells directly to fewer than about 100 companies and organizations in the United States. Everyone else buys through an IBM Business Partner. So the real choice is which partner.
Buy through another IBM Business Partner.
Same IBM servers. Same IBM programs. Ask three things: who sizes the partitions, how soon you see the price, and who is with you at cutover.
Move the work to a different server platform.
Right when your applications already run there and none of them needs IBM i or AIX. Compare three things: planned downtime for maintenance, immutable copies of your data, and the operating systems you keep.
Run Power in IBM’s cloud.
Right for backup, warm disaster recovery, and development and testing, the uses IBM names for IBM Power Virtual Server. Ask us which of your partitions belong there.
Buy it through us.
You get the same IBM servers. And you get our engineering team: we size them with you, show you your price first, and stay with you through cutover.
IBM builds the servers. We size them with you.
You see your price first.
Tell us what you’re after. One business day later you have a price, sized to fit, with nothing in it you don’t need.
Our engineering team owns it.
The engineers who size it set it up and stay through support. IBM Business Partner since 2008, 29 of 29 IBM proficiencies, one team the whole way.
It is our pleasure to meet you.
230 briefing centers in 113 cities. Pick one; one of our engineers brings the coffee. Or meet us online.
Our engineering team sizes the cores, memory and partitions to the IBM i, AIX and Linux work you run, shows you your price before you commit, and stays through installation and support.
It would be our pleasure to size yours.
How our engineering team delivers
Get it running.
Our engineering team, with IBM Expert Labs (formerly IBM Lab Services)
Build.
We design it, install it and move your workloads across, then hand it over working.
Stay connected.
After go-live, IBM’s specialists stay on call beside our engineering team.
One statement of work and one invoice, from us.
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The proof.
IBM’s published results
Source: IBM’s Power page, modified October 15, 2026.
Our trusted and valued customers are shown on our home page. It is our privilege to work for them. See our customers
We would rather tell you now. Power is not the fit if your Power servers are recent and under IBM support for years to come, if everything you run already lives in a public cloud and will stay there, or if your estate is Linux alone and you want it on the fewest servers. For that last one, ask us about IBM LinuxONE.
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