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We are excited to announce the availability of Regional High Availability (HA) networking and workloads on IBM Cloud for VCF as a Service (VCFaaS), to help businesses deploy mission-critical applications with enhanced resiliency and availability. With these new options, you can: Choose to deploy your VMs onto infrastructure that is 99.99% available and managed by IBM in the multitenant model;Build your own Regional Workload HA in the single-tenant model by taking advantage of VMware stretched vSAN feature to stretch your environment across two physical data centers within a region, ensuring that your applications stay up and running even in the event of a data center-level failure; orDeploy Regional Network HA only in both single-tenant and multitenant models.

While many companies are turning to NVIDIA’s solutions to set up and run work tasks linked to artificial intelligence, IBM Cloud is turning to Intel’s offering. When you put it like that, it sounds very penny-pinching, but it has to be said that Intel’s solution seems to offer a very interesting performance/price ratio.

The new IBM Cloud MZRs in Montreal and Toronto will facilitate businesses in tightly regulated industries, such as government and finance, to securely store and manage data within Canada to meet national privacy standards. Tech major International Business Machines Corporation IBM has broadened its cloud offerings in Canada with new innovations tailored to help organizations expand their artificial intelligence capabilities and adhere to regulatory standards.

TORONTO and MONTREAL, April 3, 2025 /CNW/ — IBM (NYSE: IBM ) announced today two key advances in its cloud capabilities in Canada, further strengthening offerings to enable Canadian organizations to scale AI deployments, and to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements for data storage and security including Canadian data sovereignty. These in-country IBM Cloud MZRs are designed to enable Canadian clients to deploy AI and mission-critical workloads with high levels of security, and help clients address their data sovereignty and regulatory compliance requirements.

From the second quarter of 2025, Gaudi 3 will also be available as a worker node for Red Hat OpenShift AI clusters on IBM Cloud. By adding Gaudi 3 to its own infrastructure portfolio, IBM aims to provide a more cost-efficient alternative for companies that want to scale Generative AI workloads – at least in theory.

It has been six years since IBM launched IBM Power Virtual Server, its public cloud offering for IBM i workloads. Adoption started slowly but has picked up in recent years as IBM fleshed out the offering and expanded it to more datacenters. As we enter the second quarter, IBM is banking on several new features to help it attract more IBM i customers to PowerVS. Last October, IBM offered PowerVS in 21 IBM Cloud datacenters around the world, including 650 Power Systems customers. Doris Conti, the vice president of Power Systems product management, told The Four Hundred that IBM had … The post What’s New With IBM PowerVS In 2025? appeared first on IT Jungle.

Bring-your-own watsonx software license – Clients requiring added control over their entire AI stack – from infrastructure to workload – can deploy IBM watsonx.ai software to their Intel Gaudi 3-based virtual server on IBM Cloud VPC in Q2 2025. By leveraging Intel’s Gaudi 3 on IBM Cloud, the two companies are aiming to help clients more cost effectively test, innovate and deploy generative AI solutions.

One user thinks the Intel Vision event is an opportunity for the company’s stock to gain some ground. Delivering the keynote speech, Tan said that Intel is still committed to its foundry business and pledged that the company will “listen closely” to its customers, underscoring a “culture” change at the chipmaker.

“Today at Intel Vision 2025, IBM (IBM) announced the availability of Intel (INTC) Gaudi 3 AI accelerators on IBM Cloud. This offering delivers Intel Gaudi 3 in a public cloud environment for production workloads. Through this collaboration, IBM Cloud aims to help clients more cost-effectively scale and deploy enterprise AI. Intel Gaudi 3 AI accelerators on IBM Cloud are currently available in Frankfurt and Washington, D.C IBM Cloud regions, with future availability for the Dallas IBM Cloud region in Q2 2025. IBM’s AI in Action 2024 report found that 67% of surveyed leaders reported revenue increases of 25% or more due to including AI in business operations. Although AI is demonstrating promising revenue increases, enterprises are also balancing the costs associated with the infrastructure needed to drive performance. By leveraging Intel’s Gaudi 3 on IBM Cloud, the two companies are aiming to help clients more cost effectively test, innovate and deploy generative AI solutions. “By bringing Intel Gaudi 3 AI accelerators to IBM Cloud, we’re enabling businesses to help scale generative AI workloads with optimized performance for inferencing and fine-tuning. This collaboration underscores our shared commitment to making AI more accessible and cost-effective for enterprises worldwide,” said Saurabh Kulkarni, Vice President, Datacenter AI Strategy and Product Management, Intel. Disclaimer & DisclosureReport an Issue

By leveraging Intel’s Gaudi 3 on IBM Cloud, the two companies are aiming to help clients more cost effectively test, innovate and deploy generative AI solutions. Bring-your-own watsonx software license – Clients requiring added control over their entire AI stack – from infrastructure to workload – can deploy IBM watsonx.ai software to their Intel Gaudi 3-based virtual server on IBM Cloud VPC in Q2 2025.