Leveraging AI on PowerVS offers significant advantages, transforming how businesses utilize IBM Power Virtual Servers for profitability and efficiency. Integrating AI solutions like IBM watsonx enhances mission-critical workloads, streamlines operations, and provides a competitive edge without extensive retraining or costs.
Integrating AI on IBM PowerVS isn’t just possible. It’s profitable.
The time, energy, and resources you save by leveraging AI solutions like IBM watsonx have positive ripple effects throughout company operations. CloudFirst is on the front lines to help you achieve that outcome with our 24-7 support and our team of IBM-certified engineers.
PowerVS (Power Virtual Server) is a family of configurable, multi-tenant, virtual IBM Power servers with access to IBM Cloud service. PowerVS is used for business continuity planning, modernization, and data center optimization.
Let’s get into the reason you’re here: to find out how PowerVS supports AI and what that means for your business.
How does IBM PowerVS support AI?
Watsonx AI on PowerVS is a seamless integration for powering mission-critical workloads such as code generation, automated data entry, and more. You can use watsonx to complement the software you’re already running on PowerVS without extra training or expenses.
For example, if you’re a financial services provider, you can use watsonx’s gen AI assistant to aid in isolating suspicious transactions by using a natural language prompt. You can find the data you need without any specialized IT or AI skills.
Watsonx achieves this by leveraging an AI foundational model running on IBM Cloud. From there, it generates the necessary query and retrieves the relevant information from the core database running on PowerVS’s vast storage and memory capabilities.
AI is increasingly becoming a cornerstone of enterprise strategy; 75% of CEOs believe their competitive advantage will depend on who has the most advanced generative and traditional AI.
Pairing watsonx.ai with PowerVS can also improve front office operations. For instance, AI can boost customer service representative productivity by:
- summarizing transcripts
- providing guidance to remediate issues
- extracting relevant information to automate data entry
Keeping customers happy is crucial to business success. AI can help.
What features of PowerVS are beneficial for enterprise AI deployment?
IBM Cloud PowerVS accelerates AI model training, which requires a high level of memory, storage, and processing capabilities. PowerVS features exceptional technical specs, leading to speedy model training and inference.
Having models ready to go in record time gives enterprises a clear competitive advantage over those waiting weeks or even months for an effectively trained model.
With PowerVS, you can leverage cloud-based storage to manage extensive datasets with ease while keeping costs reasonable.
That could mean using watsonx to simplify analysis of preventive operational parameters pulled from systems, applications, and products in data processing. Watsonx can help identify patterns that point to potential asset failures and provide context around the health of your environment.
The secure, isolated nature of PowerVS’s data storage safeguards sensitive information while ensuring accessibility for AI algorithms, focusing on data integrity and preventing unauthorized access.
With the “power” behind PowerVS AI, you can stay ahead of the curve while staying secure and cost-effective.
Proactive measures are just one way AI can impact enterprise IT operations.
JPMorgan Chase leverages AI in its Contract Intelligence platform, which automates tasks such as interpreting loan applications. Doing so has saved their legal teams roughly 360,000 hours of review.
AI’s potential time savings and operational enhancements are endless. PowerVS and watsonx are great starting points when you have a trusted partner like CloudFirst. We’re here to help you navigate all those moving pieces to maximize your ROI.
What are some examples of AI having a positive impact on PowerVS and other IBM solutions?
Watsonx works hand in hand with IBM Power Systems to deliver cohesive, custom solutions through automation, knowledge management, forecasting, and more. JORI, a luxury furniture manufacturer based in Belgium, implemented watsonx to build an online store locator for customer interaction points.
Based on data gathered by IBM Watson Geospatial Analytics, they were able to deliver an elevated customer experience during COVID-19 and beyond.
IBM applied watsonx to their very own client support workflow and achieved:
- 70 Net Promoter Score, indicating a world-class client experience
- up to 45 minutes in daily savings for support agents with automated case prioritization
- 26% reduction in time to case resolution
Facing excessive manual data entry, data redundancy, and inaccessibility, IBM restructured the way sellers interacted with clients. That included reducing the number of client handoffs through the cycle.
By implementing AI-infused solutions such as intelligent virtual assistance for sellers and AI-driven proposal building and customization, IBM solved those pain points and generated 13x ROI and a 40% increase in operational savings.
But watsonx isn’t the only AI that integrates with PowerVS and IBM i. Other gen AI tools also benefit from PowerVS’s vast storage and memory capabilities.
A major online retailer and long standing IBM i user leveraged AI to automate routine tasks and optimize strategies for different sales channels.
This retailer runs enterprise resource planning, inventory, accounting, order management, warehouse management, and purchasing order applications on the latest release of IBM i 7.5 and the newest Power10 processor-based infrastructure. Because of their strong foundation with IBM, adopting AI was a smooth transition.
What are some risks of using AI on PowerVS, and how can working with CloudFirst mitigate them?
The best AI for PowerVS comes from CloudFirst, and that includes risk management. We can help you mitigate the risks of AI on PowerVS IBM Cloud with our Security Managed Service for IBM i and Power Systems.
CloudFirst’s IBM experts have the knowledge and resources to provide the 24-7-365 monitoring and support you need to catch threats before they happen.
From data security to legal and ethical risks, there is a lot to consider when deciding to lean into AI tools.
Can CloudFirst mitigate AI data risks?
Yes, CloudFirst mitigates AI data risks. Protecting data integrity, security, and availability throughout the entire AI lifecycle is crucial for avoiding common vulnerabilities attached to AI.
With CloudFirst, this includes security incident investigations, incident response and reports for management, secure file transfers, and more.
“Threat actors can cause serious problems for organizations by breaching the data sets that power AI technologies, including unauthorized access, data loss and compromised confidentiality,” says IBM.
Don’t leave your data open to vulnerabilities. It’s not if you get targeted by bad actors, but when. Arm yourself with the right defenses to avoid breaches and protect your data integrity.
Does CloudFirst help reduce AI model risks?
Yes, CloudFirst’s services reduce AI model risk. Our IBM i Security solution keeps you ahead of threat actors with our full ransomware risk assessments, advanced multi-factor authentication, and privileged access management.
Without proper precautions, the core components determining an AI model’s behavior and performance can be infected by bad actors. A prompt injection attack is one way hackers can infect a model’s behavior.
During a prompt injection attack, an LLM can be manipulated by malicious inputs disguised as legitimate prompts to release sensitive data, which can cause all kinds of chaos and damage, including the spreading of misinformation.
CloudFirst’s IBM i Security risk assessments, advanced multi-factor authentication, and ezAutomate endpoint protection services can help ensure only authorized personnel can alter AI behaviors and performance, avoiding threats like prompt injection attacks.
According to the IBM Institute for Business Value, 96% of leaders believe that adopting generative AI makes a security breach more likely. But, as IBM says, “nearly every piece of enterprise IT can be turned into a weapon in the wrong hands. Organizations don’t need to avoid generative AI—they simply need to treat it like any other technology tool.”
How does CloudFirst help customers avoid operational risks with AI?
CloudFirst offers system management services for IBM i that help ensure your system is running at peak performance with 100% uptime guaranteed.
Introducing AI systems can also create new vulnerabilities by expanding the attack surface for cyber threats. CloudFirst’s IBM-certified engineers provide continuous deployment and ongoing support to stay on top of those vulnerabilities without compromising system efficiency.
Can CloudFirst help avoid ethical and legal AI risks?
Organizations that aren’t transparent and accountable with their AI systems risk regulatory noncompliance and loss of public trust. CloudFirst ensures regulatory compliance for AI on PowerVS.
By using trusted guidelines such as the NIST AI risk management framework, ISO 27001, and the EU AI Act, we provide a significant reduction in ethical and legal AI risks.
CloudFirst’s ezAutomate solution offers AI-driven security information and event management to stay on top of compliance. When you combine ezAutomate and IBM i Security, regulations will be accounted for and addressed on time, every time.
How can CloudFirst help you get started with AI on PowerVS?
CloudFirst can help you manage everything that needs to happen after you adopt PowerVS—including application security and AI tools. We can help you achieve a smooth, successful deployment of any AI solution you choose to deploy on PowerVS.
CloudFirst is with you every step of the way to ensure your IT infrastructure is consistently operating at its best without breaking the bank.
Don’t wait until you’re scrambling to secure your applications and AI tools. Request a quote for managed security services for your PowerVS deployment today.
