IBM Power and AS/400 Server Hardware

What is PowerVS, and how is it different from migrating off Power entirely?

PowerVS is IBM Power infrastructure hosted in IBM Cloud, running the same IBM i, AIX, or Linux on Power operating environments and the same Db2 for i engine as an on-premises server. It is an extension of the platform, not a replacement for it.

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PowerVS is IBM Power infrastructure hosted in IBM Cloud, running the same IBM i, AIX, or Linux on Power operating environments and the same Db2 for i engine as an on-premises server. It is an extension of the platform, not a replacement for it.

Migrating off Power means moving a workload to a different architecture entirely, which usually means rewriting or re-platforming the applications running on it. PowerVS avoids that by letting a workload move to the cloud, or simply extend into it for capacity, disaster recovery, or a bounded AI project, while the applications, security configuration, and high availability design carry over unchanged.

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