Intel® Technologies Accelerate IBM Solutions
IBM infrastructure, software, and services running on Intel® technologies enhance trusted AI and hybrid cloud projects with robust security, optimized performance, cost efficiency, and simplified access across the globe.
Intel® Gaudi® 3 AI Accelerators on IBM Cloud®
Intel and IBM are deploying Intel Gaudi 3 AI accelerators on IBM Cloud to help enterprises more cost-effectively scale AI, while prioritizing performance, security and resiliency.
The Cost-Effective Choice for Enterprise AI
“IBM is committed to helping our clients drive AI and hybrid cloud innovation by offering solutions to meet their business needs. Our dedication to security and resiliency with IBM Cloud has helped fuel IBM’s hybrid cloud and AI strategy for our enterprise clients. Leveraging Intel's Gaudi 3 accelerators on IBM Cloud will provide our clients access to a flexible enterprise AI solution that aims to optimize cost performance. We are unlocking potential new AI business opportunities, designed for clients to more cost-effectively test, innovate and deploy AI inferencing solutions.” – Alan Peacock, General Manager of IBM Cloud (Source)
Enterprise AI: Five Critical Considerations
Scaling Enterprise AI with IBM & Intel
Why Intel and IBM
While generative AI and hybrid cloud strategies are accelerating business transformation, the required compute power needed emphasizes the importance of availability, performance, cost, energy efficiency and security as top priorities for enterprises. Intel and IBM support enterprise AI workloads in the cloud and data centers, providing customers with visibility and control over their software stack, simplifying workload and application management.
Total Cost of Ownership
Reduce spend while maximizing value from cloud services. Intel and IBM are bringing greater AI availability and cost-effective alternatives to the market.
Performance
Intel Gaudi 3 delivers performance and efficiency on GenAI and LLM inferencing and fine-tuning workloads. Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors on IBM Cloud Bare Metal and Virtual Servers deliver built-in AI acceleration and consistent, predictable performance to simplify the transition to a common cloud foundation.
Open Development and Choice
Intel and IBM deliver open source-based solutions with freedom from vendor lock-in. Key Intel optimizations such as Intel® AVX-512 help ensure streamlined optimization across all cloud platforms.
Security and Compliance
Protect your data at rest, in transit and in use with confidential computing technologies. In addition to leveraging built-in security capabilities like Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX), IBM brings decades of experience working with regulated workloads and industry compliance requirements.
IBM Cloud: Optimized on Intel
Discover how the latest Intel innovations on IBM Cloud can power your biggest business priorities.
4th Gen Intel® Xeon® processor Enhances IBM Cloud Offerings
Scale trusted AI and drive business growth with a hybrid cloud by design leveraging proven security features, built-in AI accelerators, and the leadership of IBM and Intel.
Explore IBM Cloud offerings on 4th Gen Intel Xeon with VMware, SAP, and more
How Intel and IBM are helping enterprises accelerate innovation
Confidential Computing with Intel® SGX® on IBM Cloud
Protect your data not only at rest and in transit, but also in use, and prioritize your cloud compute performance with 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® processing power that secures as much as it scales. IBM Cloud now delivers Intel® SGX® confidential computing application security that isolates and protects sensitive data and workloads through their lifecycle.
Deployment Options
IBM Cloud Virtual Server for VPC
Accelerated by Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC combines private network control with rapid-provisioning compute capacity.
Get started with Virtual Servers for VPC
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC with Intel
Get USD 1,000 in credits to use toward any of your new VPC resources – including all compute, network, and storage components. Apply code VPC 1000.
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers deliver dedicated, single-tenancy performance, security, and control with over 10 years of industry excellence in uptime availability, reliability, and customer care.
IBM Cloud Bare Metal with Intel
Get USD 1,000 in credits to use toward any of your new bare metal servers on VPC infrastructure resources – including all compute, network, and storage components. Apply code VPC 1000.
Modernize VMware Workloads
Migrate VMware workloads to IBM Cloud with your existing tools, technologies, and skills. IBM Cloud with Red Hat OpenShift uses automation to help lower the operating costs of VMware and Intel-based workloads.
Transform SAP Workloads
IBM Cloud offers an expansive portfolio of both Platform and Infrastructure as a Service SAP offerings to help drive operational excellence and manage enterprise security, reliability, and compliance needs.
Red Hat Solutions on IBM Cloud
Combine the innovation of a global community of open-source developers with unmatched expertise in industry models, cloud, and AI to overcome challenges faster and create better outcomes.
Reduce Risk for Regulated Industries
IBM’s enterprise cloud platform is designed to meet the highest levels of regulatory, security, and compliance requirements even for the most regulated industries with preconfigured controls and Intel-based hardware security.
Scale Enterprise AI with Trust and Choice
IBM Cloud and Intel Gaudi 3 AI Accelerators aim to help customers scale enterprise AI inferencing and fine-tuning workloads more cost-effectively while prioritizing performance, security, and resiliency.
High-Performance Computing
Tackle large-scale, compute-intensive challenges and speed time to insight with IBM’s hybrid cloud HPC solutions on the latest Intel technologies.
IBM Software: Powered by Intel
Open, modular services are essential to maintaining business agility in the face of market disruptions and challenges. IBM hybrid cloud software is designed to integrate across multiple clouds, with optimized workflows that help businesses transform data into value.
Optimizing watsonx.data for Faster GenAI and Intelligent Decision-Making on Intel
2.7X higher throughput for decision support workload 1 and 2.41X higher throughput for IBM Big Data Insights with 5th Gen Xeon vs. previous generations 1 . Faster queries enable more work to be done on the hardware, enhancing the solution's value while reducing the overall TCO.
Watson NLP Gets a Performance Boost with Intel® Technologies
Up to 35% performance gains when combining Watson NLU with Intel® oneAPI Deep Neural Network Library (oneDNN) on Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.
Get Workload-Specific, Scalable AI
IBM Watson changes the way work gets done across industries and enables deeper insights, automation, and visibility for the entire organization.
Boost Scalable Database Performance
Intel® and IBM are raising the bar on IBM Db2 performance with Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.
Automate and Simplify Provisioning
IBM Cloud Paks integrate an AI-powered control plane with hybrid cloud infrastructure to make applications and workflows more efficient.
Get Started
IBM solutions optimized on the latest Intel technologies are purpose-built for your mission-critical workloads and enterprise-ready for your evolving, complex needs.
Intel® Technology with IBM Solutions
Intel® technology at the heart of IBM Cloud, software, and storage helps deliver exceptional levels of performance, memory capacity, built-in AI acceleration, software optimizations, high-bandwidth networking, and security.
Frequently Asked Questions
IBM Cloud embraces a trusted AI and hybrid cloud by design strategy, solving 5 critical enterprise considerations: resiliency, performance, security, compliance and total cost of ownership. IBM Cloud gives businesses more flexibility of choice in using open source software, such as Red Hat OpenShift, with COTS hardware in a cost-effective cloud stack that delivers key performance optimizations in Intel® architecture.
Additionally, IBM provides decades of technological acumen in design, engineering, and the ability to address industry-specific workloads in highly regulated markets. Businesses can also benefit from regional data centers situated all over the globe to ensure their data and workloads are stored and executed in a preferred physical location.
The IBM Cloud offers tailored services based on specific industry requirements and stringent compliance environments, including but not limited to IBM Cloud for Financial Services, IBM Cloud for Education, IBM Cloud for the public sector, and IBM Cloud for healthcare and life sciences. In each of these scenarios, the IBM Cloud enabled by Intel® technology can help organizations provide evidence for specific certification or compliance requirements, with overlapping layers of oversight and cybersecurity as needed.
IBM customers get access to tiered levels of technical support that cater to both guided and self-directed approaches, with numerous tools available to facilitate easy cloud management. These services can also integrate life cycles planning to accommodate future refreshes and upgrades and personalized support from assigned customer success managers.