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Upgrading aging infrastructure can be a dauting task, but is essential for maintaining business continuity, enhancing operational efficiency, and securing competitive advantage. Outdated systems often suffer from performance bottlenecks, security vulnerabilities, and incompatibility with modern software. By investing in new technology, businesses can improve productivity, reduce downtime, mitigate risks, and unlock opportunities enabled by emerging technologies, ultimately driving growth and innovation. In this post, we'll talk specifically about the benefits of upgrading from a previous version of IBM's Power Systems to the latest Power10. 

Disaster Recovery for critical applications is an important part of any Business Continuity Plan. Most, if not all, IBM Power servers, host mission-critical applications and the need for a standby server at a secondary location is essential for an effective disaster recovery plan. With the introduction of cloud-based POWER servers it has become much easier and more cost effective to have a standby server at a remote location. The customer does not need to purchase a server with idle capacity and host it in a remote datacenter to achieve their DR goals.

This past May, Red Hat released version 8 of its flagship platform Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). It’s been 5 years since the last major release and there are exciting new features that make version 8 the best Linux to run your business on. I'm going to examine some of these features such as portability, AppStreams, and a web-based management tool to make the transition to Linux much easier.