IBM Power 10 (S1024)

IBM® Power® servers are already the most reliable and secure in their class. Now, the new IBM Power S1024 (9105-42A) technology-based server extends that leadership and introduces the essential scale-out hybrid cloud platform, uniquely architected to help clients securely and efficiently scale core operational and AI applications anywhere in a hybrid cloud. Clients can encrypt all data simply without management overhead or performance impact and drive insights faster with AI at the point of data. Clients can also gain workload deployment flexibility and agility with a single hybrid cloud currency while doing more work.

The Power S1024 features include:

• IBM Power10 processors with up to 12, 24, 32, or 48 total cores per server
• Capacity Upgrade on Demand (CUoD) activation core features
• IBM Private Cloud with Dynamic Capacity for Enterprise Pools 2.0 activation core features
• In-core AI inferencing and machine learning with Matrix Math Accelerator (MMA) feature.
• Up to 8.0 TB of system memory distributed across 32 DDR4 differential dual inline memory module (DDIMM) slots
• Transparent Memory Encryption with no additional management setup and no performance impact
• Active Memory Mirroring (AMM) for Hypervisor available as an option to enhance resilience by mirroring critical memory used by the IBM PowerVM® hypervisor
• Ten PCIe slots with eight PCIe Gen5 capable, all with concurrent maintenance
• Up to 16 NVMe U.2 flash bays provides up to 102.4 TB of high-speed storage
• Optional internal RDX drive
• 2+2 redundant hot-plug AC Titanium power supplies in each enclosure
• PowerVM-integrated virtualization with minimum processing overhead

The Power S1024 supports:

• IBM AIX®, IBM i, Linux®, and VIOS environments
• Capacity Upgrade on Demand (CUoD) processor activation entitlement
• IBM Private Cloud with Dynamic Capacity for Enterprise Pools 2.0 processor activation entitlement
• IBM Power Expert Care service tiers

Overview

Security, operational efficiency, and real-time intelligence to respond quickly to market changes are now nonnegotiable for IT. In an always-on environment of constant change, you need to automate and accelerate critical operations, while ensuring 24x7 availability and staying ahead of cyberthreats. You need applications and data to be enterprise-grade everywhere, but without adding complexity and cost.

The Power S1024 (9105-42A) server can modernize your applications and infrastructure with a frictionless hybrid cloud experience to provide the agility you need for the unpredictability of today's business. The Power S1024 can help you:

• Run workloads where you need them with efficient scaling and consistent pay-for-use consumption across public and private clouds
• Use memory encryption at the processor level designed to support the Zero Trust security approach to hybrid cloud
• Accelerate insights from data through AI inferencing directly in the core
• Consolidate workloads with scalability and performance that can reduce energy consumption

The Power S1024 server is designed to improve scale, performance, and security while delivering class-leading reliability. This enhanced performance and scale family of systems can help deliver business agility by extending mission-critical workloads across a hybrid cloud with increased flexibility.

• Respond faster to business demands: The Power10 processor delivers new levels of performance as compared to IBM Power9 for the same workloads without increasing energy or carbon footprint, enabling more efficient scaling. Power Private Cloud with Dynamic Capacity includes metering of IBM i, Linux, Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform, and AIX environments for flexible consumption consistently across public, private, and hybrid clouds when combined with the Power S1024.
• Protect data from core to cloud: Power10 provides end-to-end security with a transparent memory encryption at the processor level--without management overhead or performance impact. Power10 can also help you to stay ahead of future threats with support for post-quantum cryptography and fully homomorphic encryption.
• Streamline insights and automation: Power10 leverages the enhanced in-core AI inferencing capability built into every server with no additional specialized hardware required. You can extract insights from your most sensitive data where it resides, eliminating the time and risk of data movement.
• Maximize availability and reliability: The Power10 processor helps ensure your business stays up and running with inherent advanced recovery and self-healing features for infrastructure redundancy and disaster recovery in IBM Cloud®.

Power servers are delivering results for clients all over the globe, from new digital services for banks and real-time decision-making in manufacturing to operational efficiency for engineering and electronics. See how Power servers are contributing to IBM client success in IBM Case Studies .

Key requirements

An IBM AIX, IBM i, Linux, or VIOS operating system is required. See the Software requirements section for details.

Planned availability date

• July 22, 2022, except for features EM6U and EM78
• November 18, 2022, for features EM6U and EM78