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Unlock Business Agility with IBM Concert with IBM Power

By Trent Shupe posted 2 days ago

  

 Turn maintenance into momentum . 

   What if your infrastructure could adapt in real time, and never slow you down?  With IBM Concert + Power Systems, that vision becomes reality. 

 

The Problem: Patching is a Productivity Killer 

 Managing critical vulnerabilities has become an endless burden. Between constant CVE disclosures, patch testing, version compatibility issues, and security advisories, IT and security teams are trapped in a relentless cycle of reactive fixes. The impact is enormous: 

  • Average annual cost of downtime per system: $2M 

  • $336,000 per hour of planned downtime 

  • 2+ maintenance windows/year, each lasting hours to days 

  • 20–40% of IT team time is spent planning, testing, and executing maintenance—often at night or on weekends 

Top Challenges: 

  • Complexity: Manual coordination across firmware, software, and hardware 

  • Business Disruptions: Application downtime impacts customers and revenue 

  • Risk Exposure: Delayed updates increase vulnerability to breaches and instability 

 

The Solution: IBM Concert with IBM Power 

IBM Concert with Power is an AI-driven operations and automation solution that simplifies and automates IT operations across Power environments. 

 It transforms fragmented infrastructure data into a unified, vulnerability-focused view—enabling teams to proactively detect CVEs, assess risk across Power systems, and automate remediation with confidence and speed. 

Key Benefits: 

  • More Connected: Unifies siloed infrastructure data across Firmware, VIOS, HMC, and applications 

  • More Proactive: Automates CVE identification, prioritization and remediation even for intermittent risks 

  •  More Resilient: Enables zero planned downtime during updates 

  •  More Adaptable: Customizable workflows and controls to meet your unique environment 

 

How It Works: From Discover to Act 

Concert for Power follows a simple, powerful four-step process: 

1. Discover 

  • Inventory all key Power components: system firmware, HMC, VIOS 

  • Identify current versions and scan for vulnerabilities 

2. Understand 

  • Analyze CVEs and risk factors in a single prioritized view 

  • Score vulnerabilities based on severity and business impact 

3. Recommend 

  • AI-generated mitigation strategies tailored to your environment 

  • Actionable plans to update or patch, with minimal disruption 

4. Act 

  • Trigger updates—like Power11 upgrades—through AI-powered, low-code workflows 

  • Leverage Power11's Automated Maintenance Tool to execute without downtime 

 

Zero Planned Downtime with Concert with Power11 

Through deep integration with Power11’s automated maintenance capabilities, IBM Concert enables orchestrated, end-to-end maintenance without application impact. 

Your teams can: 

  • Let Concert orchestrate automated maintenance across your stack, or 

  • Manually trigger maintenance from the HMC—Concert optional, flexibility built-in 

Either way, you get unmatched business resiliency with zero planned downtime. 

 

The Business Impact 

Improve Business Continuity 
 Minimize disruptions to mission-critical apps, maintain SLAs, and keep operations running 24/7. 

Reduce Risk 
 Enable more frequent, faster patching—keeping systems secure, stable, and compliant with less effort. 

Boost Productivity 
 Free up your IT team from low-value patching work to focus on innovation and strategy. 

Lower Costs 
 Turn costly, disruptive maintenance windows into streamlined, automated events—cutting hours and expenses. 

 

It’s Time to Rethink Infrastructure 

 With IBM Concert and Power11, vulnerability management becomes proactive, automated, and resilient by design. Instead of reacting to CVEs and patching under pressure, teams can detect, prioritize, and remediate risks with zero planned downtime—protecting critical systems while reclaiming time, reducing risk, and maintaining business continuity. 

Welcome to the future of resilient, secure, and automated operations. 
Welcome to IBM Concert with Power. 

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