As IT strategies shift to serve an always-on world that demands agility and engagement, customers are looking to hybrid cloud and open source to achieve the flexibility required to respond to these new dynamics. This digital transformation, driven by the modernization of key processes and services, can help businesses gain a competitive advantage through faster responses to market demand, acceleration of innovations, and a closer engagement with and understanding of their customers.

A solid infrastructure foundation is required for application modernization and IBM Power® delivers on this as a leader in reliability for 13 straight years[1]. The consolidation and dynamic scaling capabilities enable customers to run systems of record side by side with Red Hat OpenShift based applications, allowing for a highly agile and flexible experience. IBM Power is designed for incremental , supporting customers by extending the value of existing applications on AIX, IBM i and Linux while starting to surround them with new cloud-native apps at their own rate and pace. Customers can leverage existing investments while also reaping the innovation, technology and economic benefits of the IBM Power platform as their technology stack is modernized.

As customers undertake the modernization of critical applications and implementation of new cloud native services, they are also evaluating the modernization of existing systems of record to open source databases (OSDBs) such as PostgreSQL. To ensure that their OSDBs have the enterprise security, reliability, and support required for mission critical workloads, customers look to enhanced distributions of these open source workloads.

On May 9, 2022 we announced the availability of
FUJITSU Enterprise Postgres on the IBM Power platform at IBM Think

This exciting announcement brings together the enhanced capabilities of FUJITSU Enterprise Postgres, with world class support & services provided by IBM Technology Support Services, on a platform built for modernized OSDB workloads, IBM Power.

FUJITSU Enterprise Postgres is an exceptionally reliable and robust relational database, created for organizations that require portability, security, and resilience. Designed to support the most demanding enterprise workloads, without sacrificing agility needed to modernize the most complex business solutions, it delivers a frictionless and secure hybrid cloud experience required by organizations in their continued digital transformation. Key Features include:

• Superior developer experience with the hybrid multi-cloud, allows flexible deployment, maintenance, and distribution of apps across environments to meet current and future needs.
• Business continuity through containerization technology, hosted on premise or on the multi-cloud.
• Unique security with out-of-the-box enterprise security features, including Transparent Data Encryption, Data Masking, and Dedicated Audit Logs. The solution not only is PCI DSS-compliant, but also meets all hybrid cloud requirements for enhanced security performance.
• Flexibility and superior performance at a reduced cost – at 80% lower cost than traditional enterprise databases.

IBM Support for FUJITSU Enterprise Postgres provides an open, security-rich, portable relational database with enterprise-grade IBM support. Our single-source approach combines product subscriptions with support delivered by industry experts who have deep expertise in OSDB technologies. In addition, IBM Technology Support Services now offers a wide range of services using proven migration processes to assist organizations in deploying FUJITSU Enterprise Postgres successfully at scale. 

Customers have utilized IBM Power for over 25 years with mission critical databases. The alignment of FUJITSU Enterprise Postgres with IBM Power can provide customers with a strong foundation to accelerate their modernization and digital transformation.

Read more about IBM Support for FUJITSU Enterprise Postgres here

Read more about FUJITSU Enterprise Postgres on IBM Power here

To purchase FUJITSU Enterprise Postgres subscriptions, please contact your IBM Technology Support Services representative.

[1] “ITIC 2021 Global Server Hardware, Server OS Reliability Report” Laura DiDio, Information Technology Intelligence Consulting (ITIC), March 2021