New IBM Power server S1012 extends AI workloads from core to cloud to edge for added business value across industries

As more organizations embrace the promise of artificial intelligence to further drive business value, we are seeing clients in industries such as retail, manufacturing, healthcare, and transportation are deploying workloads at the edge to capitalize on data where it originates. In their March 2024 Market Guide for Edge Computing, Gartner® notes, “By placing data, data management capabilities and analytic workloads at optimal points, ranging all the way to endpoint devices, enterprises can enable more real-time use cases. In addition, the flexibility to move data management workloads up and down the continuum from centralized data centers or from the cloud-to-edge devices will enable greater optimization of resources.”

To aid in that effort, today IBM announced the expansion of its portfolio of servers with the introduction of IBM® Power® S1012. This 1-socket, half-wide Power10 processor-based system delivers up to 3X more performance per core versus Power S812. It is available in a 2U rack-mounted or tower deskside form factor and is optimized for edge-level computing and also delivers the lowest entry price point in the Power portolio to run core workloads for small and medium-sized organizations. IBM Power S1012 provides clients the flexibility to run AI inferencing workloads in remote office and back office (ROBO) locations outside mainstream datacenter facilities, and in direct connection to cloud services such as IBM® Power® Virtual Server for backup and disaster recovery.