IBM Power Systems Hosting
Keep your IBM Power. Exit your Data Centre.
Need to leave your existing data centre but don't want or need to move your IBM i or AIX workloads to the cloud?
You don't have to.
Baby Blue can help you lift and shift your existing IBM Power Systems into our data centre environment, allowing you to retain your hardware, applications and operating environment while removing the responsibility of maintaining your own data centre presence.
We can manage the complete transition - from planning and physical relocation through to hosting, connectivity, IBM hardware maintenance and ongoing IBM i or AIX management.
A Different Route Out of the Data Centre
Cloud isn't the right answer for every IBM Power workload.
You may have invested significantly in your existing Power infrastructure. Your applications may be stable, your hardware may have years of useful life remaining, or the commercial and technical case for moving to cloud simply may not stack up.
But you may still need to exit your current data centre, server room or hosting provider.
Our IBM Power hosting service gives you another option:
Keep the platform. Move the location.
Your existing IBM Power infrastructure can be relocated into our professionally managed data centre environment and continue operating as a dedicated platform for your business.
Lift, Shift & Host
Baby Blue can manage the complete relocation of your IBM Power environment.
Assess & Plan
Before anything moves, we'll review the existing environment and develop a migration plan covering:
- IBM Power hardware and configuration
- IBM i and AIX LPARs
- Storage and SAN requirements
- Network and connectivity
- Backup and recovery
- High availability and DR
- Application dependencies
- Shutdown and restart procedures
- Migration window and business downtime
- Testing and rollback planning
Relocate
We can coordinate the physical move of the infrastructure from your existing location into our data centre environment.
Our IBM specialists can manage the controlled shutdown, relocation, installation and restart of the Power environment, followed by technical and application validation.
Host
Once installed, your IBM Power infrastructure can remain physically dedicated to your organisation while benefiting from a professionally managed data centre environment.
This removes the need to maintain your own physical hosting location while allowing you to continue using the IBM infrastructure you've already invested in.
More Than Colocation
We don't simply provide somewhere to put your server.
Baby Blue can provide the IBM expertise required to support the complete environment.
That can include:
- IBM Power hardware maintenance
- IBM i systems administration
- AIX systems administration
- Operating system support
- PTF, Technology Level and Service Pack management
- Firmware and microcode management
- Performance and capacity management
- Backup and recovery
- High availability and DR
- Security reviews
- Monitoring
- Incident and problem management
- Hardware upgrades and expansion
- Ongoing technical consultancy
You choose how much of the environment you want us to manage.
Already Own Your IBM Power Hardware?
Then why replace it unnecessarily?
For organisations with relatively modern Power8, Power9 or Power10 infrastructure, moving to cloud can sometimes mean replacing a platform that continues to meet the needs of the business.
Hosting allows you to retain the investment you've already made while changing where and how the infrastructure is operated.
And when the time eventually comes to refresh the platform or move to cloud, Baby Blue can help with that transition too.
One Partner for Your IBM Environment
The advantage of working with Baby Blue is that our involvement doesn't stop when the equipment arrives at the data centre.
We can support the IBM environment throughout its lifecycle.
Hosting
Secure data centre environment for your existing IBM Power infrastructure.
IBM Power Maintenance
OEM or third-party hardware maintenance for IBM Power and associated storage.
IBM i & AIX Management
Flexible administration, support and managed services delivered by experienced IBM specialists.
Professional Services
Upgrades, migrations, HA, DR, security, performance and infrastructure projects.
Future Migration
When you're ready, we can help you evaluate and migrate to IBM PowerVS, Kyndryl Cloud or your next IBM Power platform.
Links to the relevant Baby Blue service pages can be added against each service above.
For End Users and Service Providers
Our hosting and IBM services are available to both end-user organisations and service providers.
If you're an MSP or outsourcer that needs to exit a facility, consolidate data centres or support a customer with IBM Power infrastructure but don't have the specialist skills internally, Baby Blue can provide the IBM capability alongside the hosted environment.
We can work as part of the wider service while taking responsibility for the specialist IBM Power, IBM i and AIX elements.
Keep It. Move It. Let Us Manage It.
A data centre exit doesn't have to become a cloud migration.
If your existing IBM Power environment continues to do its job, we can help you move it, host it, maintain it and manage it - giving you a straightforward route out of your existing data centre without unnecessarily changing the underlying platform.
Need to exit your data centre?
Talk to Baby Blue about your existing IBM Power environment and we'll help you understand the options.
