By akademiotoelektronik, 14/07/2022

IBM unveils its first Power10 server

Bet on security to get hybrid cloud projects

Among the new functions provided by the Power10 processor, we will mainly note the encryption on the fly of memory, as on the Telum processor."The user encrypts information transparently, without any impact on performance, because everything is supported in the material level.That is to say that companies can now quantify in real time in very large in-Memory databases, like Sap Hana, "explains, just as enthusiastic, Steve Sibley, the head of the Power Systems products.

He adds that material encryption is added to that of the bone, hypervisor and applications.

Pour l’analyste Judith Hurwitz, directrice du cabinet de conseil Hurwitz & Associates, cet accent mis sur la sécurité raisonne avec les besoins de cloud hybride que les entreprises expriment en ce moment. Selon elle, les entreprises seraient en quête d’une garantie de sécurité maximale dans les échanges entre un cloud et leur datacenter.

"Security has become extremely important, whatever the infrastructure solution we are talking about.This is what all IT services demand.In this context, IBM seeks to rely on this need to be advantageous.But he still has to convince that it is even more so than the equipment of Azure and AWS, "she said, to explain IBM's insistence on security issues.

She points out that companies would be seduced by the idea of installing the gateways to the cloud suppliers themselves, in this case the outpost equipment to connect to AWS and Azure Stack for Azure.Equipment supposed to provide the same type of seal as the cloud to which it is attached and which obviously compete with the servers of physical infrastructure providers.

For his part, analyst Frank Dzubeck, of the Communication Consulting Consulting Networks Architects, believes that IBM has the best know-how with regard to material encryption, since this function is inherited from his mainframes.

“IBM was the first to implement figure encryption at the processor.Until now, this function has been entrusted to a coprocessor on his mainframes.On the Power10, they managed to go even further by consolidating the whole on a single chip, "he said, recalling that the same integration will be done on the Telum.