IBM announced IBM Power Autonomous Operations, an AI agent that can help continuously monitor Power systems and autonomously resolve issues to keep operations running smoothly.
According to IBM, it complements the recently launched IBM Bob Premium Package for i, which brings agentic-driven software designed to accelerate application development on IBM i.
These capabilities can accelerate building modern applications so enterprises can innovate at the pace required by their business. Additionally, the entry-level Power S1112 server provides a new compact, efficient option powerful enough to run AI inference locally, the company said.
IBM Power has long been IBM’s platform for mission-critical enterprise workloads. As AI becomes part of that critical infrastructure, Power is built to support it. IBM Power Virtual Server is a fully managed cloud service on which enterprises can run AIX, IBM i and Linux workloads while offloading much of the routine management for system operations. Now, IBM is embedding autonomous IT across the Power platform, from code to runtime, with new capabilities and systems.
These newly announced capabilities utilize AI agents to build automation directly into IBM Power across operations, security, and application development so clients can innovate with AI while prioritizing control and resilience. Power Autonomous Operations automates running and optimizing systems, with an embedded agent that lets teams manage Power through simple chat-style prompts. IBM Bob Premium Package for i makes IBM i development accessible to a broad range of engineers, expanding who can build and modernize their applications on the platform, said IBM.
“Enterprises should not need to choose between moving at the speed of AI and keeping their systems stable and secure,” said Hillery Hunter, general manager for IBM Power and CTO, IBM Infrastructure. “We’re making Power increasingly self-operating, so the routine work of helping to keep systems available, optimized, and secured can happen autonomously, and our clients’ teams can spend their time on innovation instead of upkeep. That’s how a business scales AI with control and resilience.”
As enterprises push AI workloads beyond the data center, the IBM Power S1112 is a new one-socket Power11 system built for compact on-prem deployment. The S1112 runs AI workloads locally using Power11 on-chip Matrix Math Acceleration (MMA) for faster inferencing
To provide clients with the right level of support for this new system, IBM Technology Lifecycle Services is introducing IBM Power Expert Care Premium Essentials, a new incident-focused support tier available exclusively for the Power S1112. Premium Essentials delivers priority access to IBM experts, accelerated response, and intelligent support automation.
IBM i is a fully integrated operating system that remains a vital part of the core business of many companies across major industries, yet modernizing IBM i applications has historically required specialized skills for RPG applications. To help address this challenge, IBM Bob is an AI-powered development assistant that offers an agentic SDLC experience for enterprise developers.
IBM Bob Premium Package for i is engineered to provide built-in support for IBM i conventions and patterns across the full development lifecycle, to help engineers make changes faster, onboard sooner, and evolve applications while prioritizing team capacity along the way.
IBM Power S1112 is expected to be generally available this month, IBM Power Autonomous Operations is expected to be generally available on September 23, 2026, and IBM Bob Premium Package for i was made generally available on June 24, 2026.
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