International Business Machines Corporation IBM recently unveiled IBM LinuxONE 4 Express, an advanced data center solution designed to provide cybersecurity, scalability and AI inferencing for hybrid cloud environments. The solution’s cutting-edge features make it suitable for a multitude of use cases for startups and small and medium-sized enterprises.
With built-in hardware-based security technology and confidential computing capabilities, the solution effectively shields sensitive data and digital assets. It enhances protection against both external threats and insider breaches by enabling scalable isolation for individual workloads.
Consolidation of databases onto a LinuxONE system significantly lowers costs and streamlines IT environments. Leveraging IBM's Telum processor for on-chip AI inferencing, enterprises can easily integrate AI capabilities with mission-critical data in the LinuxONE system. This seamless integration enables data analysis to be conducted exactly where the data is located. For instance, using this feature, health insurance businesses can speed up the verification of claims by analyzing medical records in near real-time. It also reduces both energy usage and data center floor space.
As enterprises across industries rapidly transform their operations online, they are facing numerous challenges in the process. Businesses often end up dealing with a default hybrid cloud set up with siloed stacks. This situation gives rise to inadequate operating models, leading to a non alignment across business operations and hindering the adoption of multi-cloud platforms. IBM’s LinuxONE 4 Express addresses these issues by enabling the development of an intentional hybrid cloud strategy from square one. Along with a simple, easy-to-use format, it ensures scalability to match growing workloads and performance requirements in accordance with evolving market conditions.
The solution also offers high availability, ensuring minimum downtime and access to critical applications without interruptions. Greater scalability, affordability and availability, along with advanced cybersecurity attributes, make it a very enticing option for organizations from various sectors. In fact, the solution is already gaining market traction as a prominent U.K.-based education institution, University College London, has selected IBM’s system to expedite computing research for biosciences.
IBM is poised to benefit from strong demand for hybrid cloud and AI, driving growth in Software and Consulting. The company’s growth is expected to be driven primarily by analytics, cloud computing, and security in the long haul. A combination of a better business mix, improving operating leverage through productivity gains, and increased investment in growth opportunities will drive profitability.
The stock has gained 35.1% over the past year compared with the industry’s growth of 22%.
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IBM currently carries a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy).
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