As businesses strive to meet the rising demands of AI, security, and operational resilience, modernizing core infrastructure becomes mission-critical. IBM’s newly launched Power11 platform represents a significant leap forward in enterprise computing, purpose-built for the AI era, fortified against quantum threats and designed for unmatched performance and efficiency. At HCLTech, as a global system integrator and strategic IBM partner, we are uniquely positioned to guide organizations through their Power11 transformation journeys. Our deep IBM Power expertise and end-to-end services ensure a smooth, risk-mitigated migration to the latest generation infrastructure from initial assessment to final cutover.

Why Power11?

Power11 isn’t just an upgrade. It’s an evolution. IBM has reimagined infrastructure for hybrid cloud, AI integration and quantum-safe security. Here’s what makes Power11 a game-changer:

• Autonomous IT: Self-managing capabilities and automation reduce manual overhead.
• Quantum-Safe security: Integrated PQC (Post-Quantum Cryptography) to future-proof enterprise data.
• AI-Ready architecture: Built-in acceleration with *Spyre™ chips and AI inferencing microservices.
• Zero planned downtime: Achieve up to 99.9999% availability and eliminate business disruptions.
• Resource groups: Better workload isolation, security and performance optimization.
• Energy efficiency: Up to 60% reduction in energy usage and 1/3 the footprint when consolidating multiple Power9 systems onto a single Power11 system

Enhanced features to solve customer problems

• Advanced data protection: Power11 includes enhanced data protection features such as real-time encryption and advanced threat detection, ensuring that sensitive data remains secure against evolving cyber threats.
• Scalability and flexibility: With Power11, businesses can easily scale their infrastructure to meet growing demands. The platform supports dynamic resource allocation, allowing organizations to optimize performance and cost-efficiency.
• Hybrid cloud integration: Power11 seamlessly integrates with hybrid cloud environments, enabling businesses to leverage the benefits of both on-prem and cloud-based solutions. This flexibility ensures that workloads can be managed efficiently across different environments.
• AI and Machine Learning capabilities: Power11's AI-ready architecture and built-in AI accelerators enable businesses to harness the power of AI and machine learning for predictive analytics, automation and real-time insights. This capability can drive innovation and improve decision-making processes.
• High availability and disaster recovery: Power11 offers robust high availability and disaster recovery solutions, ensuring that critical applications and data remain accessible even during hardware failures or disasters. This feature minimizes downtime and enhances business continuity.
• Simplified management: The platform includes intuitive management tools and dashboards that simplify the administration of IT resources. This ease of management reduces the complexity of maintaining and optimizing the infrastructure.
• Compliance and regulatory support: Power11 is designed to meet industry-specific compliance and regulatory requirements. This ensures that businesses can maintain adherence to standards and regulations, reducing the risk of non-compliance.

How HCLTech helps you to migrate to Power11?

Migrating critical workloads to Power11 demands precision, insight and experience. We start with a comprehensive evaluation of your current Power estate, whether on Power9 or Power10, identifying workloads, dependencies and optimization opportunities using proven tools and automation frameworks. With Power11’s support for existing OS and virtualization environments (AIX, IBM i, Linux), there's no disruption to business applications. Our AI experts integrate IBM Watson and other AI accelerators to unlock real-time insights, automation and predictive analytics. We build and deploy AI models directly on Power11’s native inferencing stack, for hybrid and multicloud strategies. Finally, we help clients deploy Power11 systems either on-prem or on IBM Cloud using Power Virtual Server (PowerVS), with full migration and operational support. We provide near-zero downtime migration using cutting-edge technology such as IBM i Migrate While Active tool for Cloud migration, DC migration & Technology upgrade.

HCLTech is not just a service provider , we are your transformation partner. With our qualified IBM Power experts, global delivery model and vertical-specific accelerators, we simplify complexity and accelerate modernization.

Conclusion

Power11 stands out as a remarkable advancement over Power10 and Power9, offering superior performance, energy efficiency, memory and storage capabilities. Its integration of cutting-edge technologies, enhanced security features and improved user experience make it the optimal choice for users seeking the best in modern computing solutions.

Reach out to our HCLTech IBM Power Practice today to schedule a no-obligation Power11 readiness consultation.

*Spyre Chip is expected to be available by end of 2025