We are excited to announce the availability of a new Tech Demo showcasing IBM® watsonx.data® on IBM® Power®- bringing together the power of an open, hybrid data lakehouse architecture with the enterprise-grade performance and resiliency of Power. Designed to meet the demands of generative AI and modern analytics, watsonx.data on Power enables organizations to unify and govern structured and unstructured data at scale. This Tech Demo offers a hands-on opportunity to experience how IBM is making it easier for Power clients to accelerate their AI journeys without compromising on cost, performance, or security. First, let’s start out by explaining exactly what a “data lakehouse” is, more about watsonx.data and Power, and how to get started with this Tech Demo:
What is a Data Lakehouse?
A data lakehouse is a modern data architecture for generative AI that combines the best parts of a data lake and a data warehouse into one unified platform. Traditional architectures force organizations to choose between a data lake that is cheap and scalable but difficult to govern, or a data warehouse that is fast but expensive and rigid. A data lakehouse solves these challenges by using object storage (such as IBM Cloud® Object Storage) and supporting structured queries and governance. Data lakehouses enable generative AI and business intelligence from the same set of both structured and unstructured data.
IBM watsonx.data is our hybrid, open data lakehouse built specifically for generative AI. With watsonx.data, organizations can store, manage, semantically enrich, and govern enterprise data, both structured and unstructured, to power AI agents and applications that drive enhanced productivity and better decision making. A unique multi-engine architecture optimizes for price and performance so you can keep up with growing data volumes without blowing your budget. IBM watsonx.data can be deployed anywhere across the hybrid cloud.
IBM Power is built to meet today’s and tomorrow’s challenges. Power11 is autonomous IT built for the AI era we are living in, with virtualization capabilities built-in and enterprise-grade security to deliver a platform that can meet all of your business needs. The Power platform is known for superior availability, resiliency, performance, scalability, and seamless deployment across the hybrid cloud. That is why Power is the ideal environment for deploying watsonx.data.
Get Started with watsonx.data on IBM Power
Power clients who are running solutions on the platform for business-critical data such as Oracle, Db2®, Db2 for i, and SAP HANA, and who want to remain on Power for their AI and analytics solutions, can do exactly that with watsonx.data on Power. That is why today we are announcing the availability of a Tech Demo of watsonx.data on IBM Power Virtual Server. You can register here or contact your IBM sales representative or IBM Business Partner to access watsonx.data on Power with Presto or Spark engines to execute SQL queries or build machine learning models using sample data stored in IBM Cloud Object Storage. IBM is committed to making watsonx.data available on-prem on Power processor-based servers by the end of the year to unify, govern, and active enterprise data at scale for AI and analytics.