Theme: Use your Power9 IBM Power resources for AI data processing tasks
By now, most have heard the saying:
“If you are not using AI, you are behind.“
For companies using IBM Power, especially Power9, which is commonplace throughout the industry, here is an idea of how you might use your existing or easily accessible cloud-based Power resources to help you jumpstart your journey to AI.
What to do with traditional on-prem applications that don’t appear to have a path to the cloud?
“My app can’t be moved to the cloud…..it is based on AIX or IBMi…….”
What is implied is that the app owner doesn’t want to re-engineer their application to all use cloud-native services, but instead wants to do a classic lift-and-shift of their application without making any application code changes. Since IBMi (AS/400) and AIX are based on PowerPC and not x86, the path the cloud is not apparent for these types of applications.
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