In an era where digital transformation drives business success, organizations face huge demands on their IT infrastructure. Modern enterprises must seamlessly orchestrate a complex array of workloads—spanning legacy systems, cloud-native applications, and sophisticated AI/ML pipelines—while maintaining peak performance and operational control. IBM Fusion 2.11 emerges as a transformative solution, offering a comprehensive unified application data platform that not only streamlines hybrid cloud management but also democratizes AI implementation. This latest iteration represents a significant leap forward, empowering organizations to bridge the gap between traditional enterprise computing and next-generation AI capabilities, all while reducing operational complexity and enhancing business agility.

Whether you’re modernizing legacy environments or scaling cutting-edge AI applications, Fusion 2.11 meets you where you are—with the intelligence, agility, and efficiency that modern enterprises require.

Built for the Future: What’s New in IBM Fusion 2.11
Fusion 2.11 is more than just an update. This release introduces several major advancements across AI, infrastructure, and virtualization:

High-Performance AI Inferencing
Fusion 2.11 introduces new AI inferencing optimized for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and agentic AI workloads. This improves speed and reduces infrastructure needs by optimizing data ingest processes—cutting down cost and complexity for organizations deploying advanced AI solutions.

Smarter Search with Expanded API Capabilities
The Fusion platform now supports semantic, keyword, and hybrid search across both text and image data. This new API functionality empowers developers to build smarter, more responsive AI applications with richer context and faster retrieval.

Seamless Integration with NVIDIA GPUs
Fusion 2.11 is optimized for next-gen AI performance with native support for NVIDIA H200 and L40s GPUs, enabling it to handle more complex models and larger datasets—essential for organizations scaling AI across their enterprise.

Scalable, Flexible Infrastructure—On Your Terms

Fusion 2.11 continues IBM’s commitment to making infrastructure truly adaptive:

• Lower-Cost Entry Point: Start small with a 3-node deployment, and scale compute, GPU, and storage capacity as needed.
• Integrated IBM Storage Scale System: Now built directly into the HCI rack, delivering simplified operations and enhanced performance.
• Resilient Topology: Fusion HCI now supports a 2 Availability Zone + arbiter configuration, protecting applications against zone failures.

Expanding Virtualization with Fusion Access

Virtual environments remain critical for many enterprises. With Fusion 2.11, virtualization support reaches new heights:

• Fusion Access for SAN moves from tech preview to production-ready, allowing seamless migration of VMs to OpenShift Virtualization while preserving investments in SAN hardware.
• Developers gain self-managed backup and restore capabilities for their applications via enhanced production-grade VM support.

Operational Enhancements in 2.11

IBM Fusion 2.11 also delivers significant improvements to ease day-to-day operations:

• A vastly improved installation and upgrade experience
• Support for OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) 4.19
• A multi-cluster observability dashboard with advanced alerting
• Automated license usage measurement and reporting for easier compliance

Why IBM Fusion?

What truly sets IBM Fusion apart is its holistic, unified approach to infrastructure modernization:

Modernize at Your Own Pace
Fusion uniquely treats AI, VMs, and containers as equal first-class citizens. No trade-offs, no forced migrations—just full control over your hybrid cloud journey.

One Platform, Zero Compromise
From seamless deployment to intelligent over-the-air updates, Fusion removes the complexity from operations—empowering IT teams to focus on innovation.

Deep OpenShift Integration
Unlike fragmented competitors, Fusion is natively built on OpenShift, offering end-to-end self-service deployment for every workload type.

Ready to Explore What’s Possible with Fusion 2.11?
IBM Fusion 2.11 marks a milestone in enterprise infrastructure—delivering the speed, intelligence, and flexibility that businesses need to succeed.

Whether you're running traditional apps, launching AI initiatives, or bridging the gap between virtual machines and containers, Fusion 2.11 provides the foundation to modernize on your own terms—without compromise.

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