Enterprise server solutions
Built to handle mission-critical workloads while maintaining security, reliability and control of your entire IT infrastructure
Overview
With enterprise-class servers at the foundation of your IT infrastructure strategy, you can integrate with your infrastructure of choice, deploy and move workloads where you want across hybrid cloud — on-prem or in the cloud. Develop an approachable, low-risk path that integrates with your existing IT Infrastructure and paves the way for innovation.
Hardware security module
Summary
IBM Cloud Hardware Security Module (HSM) 7.0 from Gemalto protects cryptographic infrastructure by more securely managing, processing and storing cryptographic keys inside a tamper-resistant hardware device. It helps you solve complex security, compliance, data sovereignty and control challenges migrating and running workloads on the cloud.
Keys in hardware
Secure cryptographic keys and provision encryption, decryption, authentication and digital signing for apps like public key infrastructure (PKI), database encryption and SSL/TLS for web servers.
High-volume protection
Faster than other HSMs on the market, IBM Cloud HSM 7.0 is ideally suited for use cases that require high performance, such as the protection of SSL/TLS keys and high-volume code signing.
Compliance
Manage compliance and audit needs for GDPR, eIDAS, FIPS 140, Common Criteria, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and others, in highly-regulated industries including financial, healthcare and government.
Location
North America
NA West
SJC03 - San Jose
NA South
DAL13 - Dallas
NA East
WDC07 - Washington
South America
SAO01 - Sao Paulo
Europe
LON04 - London
Asia-Pacific
CHE01 - Chennai
OSA22 - Osaka
SNG01 - Singapore
SYD01 - Sydney
Gateway appliance
Summary
IBM Cloud Gateway Appliances allow you to selectively route private and public network traffic through a full-featured enterprise level firewall powered by the software features of FortiOS, VyOS, JunOS or any other operating system (BYOA) you choose, such as full routing stacks, QoS and traffic sharing, policy-based routing, and VPN. The appliances provide performance, ease of configuration and maintenance advantages with the simplicity of running on a bare metal server. The hardware is sized to handle the routing/security load for multiple VLANs and can be ordered with redundant network links and redundant RAID arrays. All appliance features are customer-managed. The Fortinet vFSA, Juniper vSRX, and Virtual Router Appliance (VRA) are offered in two different modes: standalone or High Availability (HA) cluster.
Resource details
Gateway appliances protect and optimize your cloud infrastructure. Create virtual routers, firewalls, and private network devices, all with the custom parameters that you need.
Firewall
IBM Gateway Appliances deploy to protect your environment from external and internal threats by filtering both private and public facing traffic. Customers can manage the appliances themselves by defining policies and rules to allow or deny (among other actions) inbound or outbound network traffic, protecting their applications from internal and external users. Both IPv4 and IPv6 stacks are supported in a stateful manner.
Virtual Private Network (VPN) Gateway
Connect your on-site data center or office to the IBM Cloud using VPN tunneling by provisioning your vFSA, vSRX or VRA as a network gateway device. You can use an IPsec site-to-site VPN tunnel for secure communication from your enterprise data center or office to your IBM Cloud network. Remote access IPSEC VPN is also supported.
Network Address Translation (NAT)
With IBM Gateway Appliances, you can provision application and database servers without public network interfaces while still allowing your servers to access the Internet using Source NAT. You can also hide your servers behind the gateway device with Destination NAT for enhanced security.
Enterprise-grade routing
For multi-tiered applications on different isolated networks, the appliances enable you to build connectivity between these networks with greater flexibility. You can set up dynamic routing using BGP, which allows you to announce your own public IP space to the IBM Cloud routers. BGP will also offer more flexibility for custom private network configurations when using a mix of tunnels and direct link solutions.
VLANs and the gateway appliance's role
A VLAN (virtual LAN) is a mechanism that segregates a physical network into many virtual segments. For convenience, traffic from multiple selected VLANs can be delivered through a single network cable, a process commonly called "trunking."
Gateway Appliances managed in two different interfaces: The Gateway Appliance server(s) and fixture. The Gateway Appliance provides an interface (GUI and API) for selecting the VLANs you want to associate with your vFSA, vSRX or VRA. Associating a VLAN with a Gateway Appliance reroutes (or "trunks") that VLAN and all of its subnets to your appliance, giving you control over filtering, forwarding, and protection. Servers in an associated VLAN can only be reached from other VLANs by going through your appliance; it is not possible to circumvent the appliance unless you bypass or disassociate the VLAN.
By default, a new Gateway Appliance is associated with two non-removable "transit" VLANs, one each for your public and private networks. These networks typically are used for administration, and they can be secured by Gateway Appliance commands separately.
The vSRX or VRA can only manage VLANs that are associated with it through the Gateway Appliance.
Premium VLAN
Summary
A Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) is a network construct that makes it possible to create broadcast domains at the OSI Model layer-2 level. IBM Cloud uses VLANs to isolate broadcast traffic, to provide packet identification, and to let multiple workloads coexist on the same physical equipment. Depending on your situation, you may never need to interact with VLANs directly, because they are managed automatically. Optionally, you can order additional VLANs based on your unique network isolation requirements.
Features
1- Create a Premium VLAN to isolate traffic between groups of devices.
2- Isolate network broadcast traffic on the public and private networks
3- VLAN Spanning
Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure as a Service
Summary
In particular, this offering is focused on US Federal Government Customers. IBM Consulting and VSO will provide Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (HCIaaS) offering with a Cost-per-Unit model on the C2E vehicle. Offering Specifications: 4 nodes in 2RU chassis, each node containing 16 cores (2x Intel Xeon-Silver 4309Y processor - 2.8 GHz / 8-core / 105W, Ice Lake), 512GB of RAM, 2x 8TB hard drives, and 1x 2 TB solid state drive.
Features and capabilities
Customers need best of breed, multi-cloud, including hybrid cloud offerings. This infrastructure as a service offering provides compute, storage, network as a service for US Government Customers.
12 Month Subscription
$20,138.47/ Month for the term of the contract.
24 Month Subscription
$10,069.24/ Month for the term of the contract.
36 Month Subscription
$6,712.82/ Month for the term of the contract.
Bare Metal servers
Bare metal server for VPC
Summary
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers on IBM Cloud Classic Infrastructure are ideal for large, steady state, predictable operations that rely on traditional cloud networking. Customize your IBM Cloud Bare Metal Server with over 11 million different configuration combinations. Enjoy our 17% lower prices, on average, and included 20 TB of bandwidth, cost-free. Pay-as-you-use with hourly, monthly, or reserved billing at prices set for smart cost management. Choose next-generation CPU technology from Intel® Xeon®, and AMD EPYC™, and add the latest NVIDIA Tesla GPUs.
Pricing
Hourly, pay-as-you-go
Pay-as-you-go bandwidth is per gigabyte. Your billing charges accrue from provision to cancellation, and are billed in arrears. This VPC product does not support suspended billing and will continue to bill regardless of the power state. Total pricing includes bare metal server instance profiles and software, internet data transfers, and optional VPC services. Each additional component is priced separately and included as part of your total IBM Cloud VPC charge. Service tiers are bound to your account, not to any specific VPC.
Features
Workload profiles
Choose different Bare Metal Servers for VPC profiles to match your individual workload needs and help accelerate deployment of your compute resources. You get maximum performance without oversubscribing. IBM Cloud VPC Infrastructure for Bare Metal Servers for VPC provides profiles with or without secondary NVMe drives. Balanced profiles are ideal for common high-performance cloud workloads. Memory profiles are ideal for more memory intensive cloud workloads.
Advanced Intel® Xeon® CPUs
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers for VPC Infrastructure are only deployed with 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8260 Processors – built for cloud enterprise applications, HPC workloads, IoT workloads, enhanced networking, and security.
SmartNIC DPU technology
Tied directly into the VPC plane for security, and network management, experience up to 100Gbps network bandwidth on x86 profiles.
Bare Metal Server for Classic
Summary
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers on IBM Cloud Classic Infrastructure are ideal for large, steady state, predictable operations that rely on traditional cloud networking. Customize your IBM Cloud Bare Metal Server with over 11 million different configuration combinations. Enjoy our 17% lower prices, on average, and included 20 TB of bandwidth, cost-free. Pay-as-you-use with hourly, monthly, or reserved billing at prices set for smart cost management. Choose next-generation CPU technology from Intel® Xeon®, and AMD EPYC™, and add the latest NVIDIA Tesla GPUs.
Benefits
100% dedicated to you
Get direct access to your compute level resources and hardware performance for the control you want and security you need.
Modern networking, global data centers
Get up-and-running quickly across IBM Cloud data centers globally and point of presence in 9 regions and 18 availability zones. Deploy to one region or across multiple regions.
Features
Over 11 million different configurations
Choose a processor that best meets your performance needs. Upgrade from the base configuration to fine-tune the hardware for your workload with customizable RAM, SSD, and more.
Available options from single processor 4-core architectures to quad-processor 20-core architectures and up to 3 TB RAM. Local storage can scale up to 36x 12 TB HDDs (432 TB) or 24x 7.6 TB SSDs (182 TB) and up to 36 drivers per server.
SAP certified infrastructure
Deploy your SAP landscapes to IBM Cloud to realize all the advantages of cloud: cost reductions, on-demand flexibility, and limitless growth potential. IBM Cloud offers a full complement of SAP HANA certified servers and SAP Application Servers. The SAP servers range in size from single socket servers with 32 GB of RAM up to the latest eight socket Intel Cascade Lake processors with up to 12 TB of RAM. Additionally, almost every IBM Cloud SAP-Certified Bare Metal Server is available in configurations that you can provision with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, or VMware ESXi as a programmatically installed hypervisor for virtualization of SAP workloads.
GPUs
Provision bare metal servers with cutting-edge GPUs to handle your most complex compute-intensive workloads. NVIDIA Tesla GPUs on IBM Cloud are designed for high-performance acceleration of scientific computation, data analytics, and professional-grade virtualized graphics.
VMware certified infrastructure
Order IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers that include the VMware ESXi hypervisor that automatically installs.
Looking for VMware vSphere 7.0? You can find vSphere 7 hosts that are all certified for vSAN.
For other VMware services that rapidly deploy and can configure the full VMware stack by using IBM’s advanced automation. You can also see more information about the VMware-powered IaaS platforms and optional add-on services for IBM Cloud Backup, Disaster Recovery, and security and compliance readiness in the VMware Solutions portfolio.
Virtual servers
IBM Power Virtual Server
A family of configurable multi-tenant virtual IBM Power servers with access to IBM Cloud® services that seamlessly moves and manages workloads across both cloud and on-premises environments.
IBM Hyper Protect Virtual Servers
A software solution designed to protect mission-critical Linux® workloads with sensitive data from both internal and external threats for IBM Z and LinuxONE servers.
IBM Cloud Hyper Protect Virtual Servers
A fully managed confidential compute container runtime that enables the deployment of sensitive containerized workloads in a highly isolated environment with technical assurance.
IBM Cloud Virtual Server for VPC
Highly scalable, single-tenant and multi-tenant virtual machines you can launch fast for maximum network isolation and control.
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers on IBM Cloud Classic Infrastructure
Public, dedicated, reserved and transient “spot” virtual servers with Intel Xeon processors.
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
A single-tenant, dedicated servers that can be deployed and managed as cloud services.
Case studies
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EY and IBM pursuing innovative offerings that help integrate sustainability with business strategy, support the operationalization of their programs with speed and scale. These solutions aim to transform how value is created for their business, their stakeholders, their people and the planet.
EY and IBM to address complex ESG challenges and drive value-led sustainability
EY and IBM pursuing innovative offerings that help integrate sustainability with business strategy, support the operationalization of their programs with speed and scale. These solutions aim to transform how value is created for their business, their stakeholders, their people and the planet.
EY and IBM to address complex ESG challenges and drive value-led sustainability
EY and IBM pursuing innovative offerings that help integrate sustainability with business strategy, support the operationalization of their programs with speed and scale. These solutions aim to transform how value is created for their business, their stakeholders, their people and the planet.
EY and IBM to address complex ESG challenges and drive value-led sustainability
EY and IBM pursuing innovative offerings that help integrate sustainability with business strategy, support the operationalization of their programs with speed and scale. These solutions aim to transform how value is created for their business, their stakeholders, their people and the planet.
