Harness your Business Capabilities with IBM Power Virtual Server

IBM Power clients can more effectively optimize IT investments while increasing flexibility and security with rapid migration and minimal business disruption by leveraging IBM Power Virtual Server (Cloud) solution powered by Wipro FullStride Cloud.

IBM PowerVS is a cutting-edge cloud-based infrastructure as a service (IaaS) solution that offers on-demand virtual servers for IBM i homegrown, SAP and Oracle workloads (running on IBM i, AIX or Linux). Designed to leverage the proven and robust IBM Power architecture, IBM Power Virtual Server delivers the reliability, availability, scalability and performance essential for optimizing enterprise workloads.

Enterprises need to move at their own pace while determining if they will maintain, migrate or modernize by adopting a full public cloud strategy or a hybrid cloud approach for mission-critical applications. The core value proposition of “IBM Power Virtual Server powered by Wipro FullStride Cloud” is for an organization to be ‘cloud ready’, improve customer experiences, and achieve greater agility while optimizing costs.

The Business Challenge

Whether adopting a public or hybrid cloud strategy, it is critical to demonstrate the positive business impact of such technology investment decisions. Clients are at the crossroads in how they would address their legacy workloads to remain agile, efficient and relevant.  The business impacts are multi-folds i.e., cost of maintaining legacy environments, lack of skilled personnel, limited scalability and flexibility, integration issues with evolving modern technologies, amongst other challenges.  Key obstacles include indecision, uncertainty, and the complexity of managing changes to critical legacy applications without disrupting business operations.

The Business Opportunity and Value

IBM Power Virtual Server enables you to seamlessly migrate your workloads on the same trusted POWER architecture provisioned by IBM in the cloud. This solution enables clients to lift and shift workloads without refactoring, rewriting or re-platforming thereby derisking with rapid migration and also retaining application functionality.

Figure1: IBM Power Virtual Server

Wipro’s Offering for IBM Power Virtual Server

The IBM Power Virtual Server IBMi and AIX solution is packaged and offered by Wipro as two options:

Figure 2: IBM Power Virtual Server Solution

The steps given below outline the cloud migration process:

• Discovery and Assessment.
• Day-0 migration journey begins with prioritizing business impacts by evaluating several criteria to make the right strategic decision.
• Day-1 journey focuses on the near-term migration with minimal disruption and rapid migration or long-term modernization by enabling LPAR-based applications modernization on IBM Power Virtual Server/Cloud  , including integrating AI capabilities.
• Day-2 ensures operations assurance with management, optimization and governance.

Wipro’s Value Proposition

Deep Expertise

Wipro’s deep expertise and dedicated Midrange Practice ensure you access the latest technologies and best practices on IBM Cloud and Power Virtual Server. We offer comprehensive training by providing our associates with continuous learning and skill development through Wipro’s IBM Cloud Academy. We have 3500+ IBM Certifications and Professional Badges (9000+ trained). Our advanced certifications and proven track record across 75+ global accounts highlight our commitment to excellence in IBM Midrange Services.

Enterprise Delivery Operations Hub (EDOH) powered by Cloud Studio

Clients benefit from Wipro's advanced infrastructure and solutions powered by Wipro Cloud Studio, enabling efficient and reliable IBM Power Virtual Server implementations enabling seamless integration into the larger Wipro EDOH for single pane management view.

Wrap around Service and Support

Wrap around service to execute migration and BAU managed services support thereafter.

Case Study

Modernizing the IBMi environment for a globally renowned provider of reinsurance and insurance services 

Client aimed to gain advantage of a cloud-based deployment for a new COTS based insurance application running on the IBM i platform. Wipro leveraged IBM Power Virtual Server solution, deploying the IBMi environment into the IBM Power Virtual Server cloud and configuring the associated network and security elements to enable connectivity to other applications hosted within their Azure-based cloud environment. 

The client successfully implemented their new COTS application according to their envisioned timeline, benefiting from the flexibility and agility of a cloud-based infrastructure without the need for CAPEX to upgrade hardware.

Wipro continues to provide managed services for the environment hosted on IBM Power Virtual Server.

Conclusion – Power your future, on Cloud

Uncover new business potential with Wipro’s FullStride Cloud Service solution, IBM Power Virtual Server (IBMi, AIX and Linux) wherein clients based on business need can choose and customize into a Hybrid Cloud strategy for running their application workloads.

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