When evaluating the move from on-premise to the cloud, IBM Power customers across various industries typically ask the same two questions. What stays the same? And, what do I have to give up? It is important for organizations to take the time to complete a careful evaluation to determine their particular business reasons for making the move to the cloud, as well as evaluate the business risks.

Many IBM Power on-premise customers make the move to the cloud for the opportunity to worry less about their hardware components and related infrastructure and focus more on their business capabilities. Working with a cloud partner with the necessary platform and infrastructure skills, can not only relieve Power customers of some complex technical responsibilities but can also enable them to re-allocate staff to other important activities that drive business value.

For over twenty years, IBM was “king,” dominating the large computer market. By the 1980s, the world had woken up to the fact that the IBM mainframe was expensive and difficult, taking a long time and a lot of work to get anything done. Eager for a new solution, tech professionals turned to the brave new concept of distributed systems for a more efficient alternative. On June 21st, 1988, IBM announced the launch of the AS/400, their answer to distributed computing.