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points by mbreese 4 days ago | 0 comments

I didn't think that IBM had gear that mortals would want to run. If you're not running a mainframe, what do they have to sell you? They still sell Power servers and it looks like they have an AI card that can be used on both. But, if we're talking about the IBM CEO talking about on-premises, what are they really talking about hardware-wise? It's not something they would sell, is it?

This is more of a statement for their consulting customers, right?

[–] jhickok 3 days ago

My guess is if you want to run AI on prem and do it with IBM gear it would be via their x86 servers + OpenShift AI via IBM Fusion HCI.

[–] mbreese 3 days ago

I didn’t think they still sold x86 servers.

I can picture that they’d have the software side sorted out with RedHat. But I don’t know what hardware they’d push to support local on-premises models. It looks like when you buy Fusion HCI, you can choose from Dell or Lenovo as the underlying hardware supplier.