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IBM Power11 TCO Calculator
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Estimate and compare the total cost of ownership for your per-core and per-socket licensed workloads across IBM Power11 and other hyperscalers. Model your environment and see right-sized, cost-optimized results in minutes.
Open Tool →Optimizing Oracle Database Workloads: A Comparative Analysis of IBM PowerVS and Other Hyperscalers
IBM PowerVS vs. Azure, AWS, and GCP for Per-Core / Per-Socket Licensed Workloads
A comparative TCO analysis of IBM PowerVS, Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform for per-core and per-socket licensed Oracle Database, IBM i, and Db2 workloads — showing how cloud platform choice impacts licensing cost, performance efficiency, and operational outcomes.
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Optimizing Oracle Database Workloads: A Comparative Analysis of IBM PowerVS and Other Hyperscalers
IBM PowerVS vs. Azure, AWS, and GCP for Per-Core / Per-Socket Licensed Workloads
A comparative TCO analysis of IBM PowerVS, Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform for per-core and per-socket licensed Oracle Database, IBM i, and Db2 workloads — showing how cloud platform choice impacts licensing cost, performance efficiency, and operational outcomes.
View Resource →In-Depth Look at IBM's New Power Virtual Server Private On-Premise Service
IBM Power Virtual Server Private Cloud
An overview of public cloud and on-premises private cloud solutions, introducing IBM's new Power Virtual Server Private Cloud — an on-premises cloud offering with IBM Power compute, storage, and networking infrastructure that lives in the customer's own data center or colocation facility, built, installed, owned, maintained, and fully managed by IBM Cloud up to the virtual machine layer.
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Real-world TCO comparisons and migration outcomes.
IBM i Modernization Decisions in Context
Power9 vs. Power10 vs. Power11 vs. PowerVS
A three-year TCO analysis comparing four viable paths for IBM i customers approaching Power9 end of support — staying on S914, moving to S1014, moving to S1122, or adopting PowerVS.
View Resource →Underutilized S914 and the Case for Moving IBM i to PowerVS
(2) S914 4-core 64GB RAM machines vs. PowerVS
A three-year TCO comparison of underutilized Power9 S914 IBM i environments versus PowerVS — examining how moving IBM i to the cloud changes both the financial and operational equation for smaller shops.
View Resource →VMware Cloud Foundation Migration: OpenShift Virtualization Engine
VCF Migration Options Part 2
TCO analysis comparing VMware Cloud Foundation against OpenShift Virtualization Engine for container-first environments.
View Resource →Cloud Repatriation: AWS Migration to On-Premises Intel
r6i, m6i, c6i, and x2iedn EC2 instances/app servers repatriating to on-premises Intel Gen 6
A three-year cost timeline comparing AWS r6i, m6i, c6i, and x2iedn application servers against repatriation to on-premises Intel Gen 6 — showing how consolidation drives compute and licensing savings.
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Quick-reference overviews of Precision IT capabilities.
Composite Performance Metric (CPM)
Cloud and Server Performance Benchmarks
Relative performance estimate for public cloud SKUs and on-premise servers using multiple benchmark sources.
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Cloud, Datacenter, and Software Analytics
Comprehensive sizing and cost comparisons for Cloud, On-premises, Hybrid, and Multi-Cloud infrastructure.
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