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Deploy IBM Power workloads in a modern hybrid cloud architecture.

Our award winning IBM Power Cloud enables you to modernize legacy IBM i and AIX workloads while maintaining the reliability and performance these platforms are known for. Built for businesses that depend on mission-critical applications running on IBM midrange systems, our solution bridges the gap between legacy infrastructure and modern IT demands.

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A better way to run mission critical applications on IBM i and AIX.

We provide a streamlined approach to running IBM i and AIX applications by combining flexible cloud consumption, high-availability architectures, and seamless connectivity to hyperscale providers. With Lightedge, you can modernize your infrastructure without compromising the reliability your operations depend on.

Ultra Low Latency to Hyperscale Cloud Providers

Connect IBM i and AIX with leading hyperscale providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud with under 2ms of latency, enabling hybrid cloud strategies that significantly improve the capabilities of your workloads.

Seamless Modernization of Legacy Systems

Transition your IBM i and AIX workloads to a scalable cloud environment without disrupting operations. Leverage the benefits of advanced virtualization, automated failover, and integration with modern applications.

24/7/365 Expert Managed Services

Offload operational complexity with 24/7 monitoring, proactive management, and tailored support for IBM Power workloads, ensuring peak performance and availability without additional in-house overhead.

Enterprise-Grade Security and Compliance

Built-in security and continuous compliance support ensure your workloads meet the strictest standards, including HIPAA, HITRUST, PCI-DSS, and more.

Cost Efficiency and Predictability

Optimize costs with scalable, flexible consumption, and eliminate the capital expense of on-premises infrastructure and license fees.

Built on decades of IBM expertise and innovation.

With decades of hands-on experience managing thousands of LPARs for customers around the world, our team of IBM engineers and system administrators delivers deep expertise in legacy application modernization, Db2 optimization, and IBM i and AIX system management—ensuring the performance, reliability, and long-term success of your most valuable workloads.

Hyperscale connectivity

Connect your IBM Power workloads to AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or Oracle Cloud with under 2ms latency, enabling innovation with hybrid strategies and unlocking more capabilities for AI, IoT, and advanced data analytics.

Granular resource allocation

Deploy IBM Power virtual machines in 1/10 processor core increments, with memory and storage available on a per-GB basis, allowing precise scaling to fit workload requirements and eliminate resource waste.

Integrated resiliency and DR features

Minimize data loss and meet your specific RTO and RPO goals with advanced data replication options, including MIMIX, iTera, and SAN-to-SAN solutions. Rent the capacity you need during a disaster through our IBM Power Cloud, avoiding the costs of dedicated hardware while maintaining full disaster recovery capabilities.

Support for the latest IBM Power hardware

Deploy workloads on IBM Power hardware from Power9 through Power11, with full operating system support and upgrade services. We support upgrades from as far back as V5R4 through to current releases, so you can modernize without refreshing your own hardware.

Unmatched IBM expertise

As North America’s largest provider of IBM Power managed services and cloud hosting, we bring unmatched expertise to help you maximize your IBM investment. With an extensive talent pool of IBM system admins, thousands of cloud LPARs under management, and a legacy of innovation, we’re equipped to tackle even the most complex modernization challenges.

Consumption-based efficiency

Reduce licensing fees and hardware costs by deploying only the resources you need in a scalable consumption-based model, ensuring both cost predictability and operational flexibility.

Power Virtual Server Availability

IBM Power Virtual Server is IBM’s cloud-based infrastructure service that delivers the performance and reliability of Power hardware as a fully managed, on-demand service within IBM Cloud. By incorporating PowerVS alongside its existing private IBM Power Cloud, Lightedge can now meet customers exactly where their workloads need to go — whether that’s on-premises, in Lightedge’s private IBM Power environment, or extended into IBM Cloud via PowerVS.

CUSTOMER STORY / IBM POWER HYBRID CLOUD / LOGISTICS

98%

Mean Downtime (MDT) Improvement

“Lightedge’s IBM hybrid cloud provided us the stability, high availability, and resiliency we needed, immediately.“

Salem Elnahwy

Chief Technology Officer, Transflo

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How IBM Power Cloud works for your business.

Lightedge’s IBM Power Cloud is engineered specifically for mission-critical IBM i and AIX workloads, providing the reliability and performance your business demands. With decades of hands-on IBM expertise, we ensure seamless modernization by integrating your systems into a scalable, low-latency cloud environment. Our proven approach simplifies migration and delivers measurable outcomes, from consolidating data centers to enabling hybrid cloud strategies—all while maintaining the operational excellence your organization depends on.

For modernizing legacy infrastructure

Bridge legacy systems with modern infrastructure, enabling IBM i and AIX workloads to run in a scalable cloud environment with ultra low latency connectivity to cloud hyperscalers like AWS, Azure, and GCP.

For teams with limited IBM i and AIX experience

Our team of over 150 IBM engineers provides the expertise needed to manage, modernize, and optimize your IBM i and AIX workloads. We act as an extension of your team, ensuring your systems run efficiently, even if in-house IBM skills are limited.

For mission critical workloads

Designed for reliability, security, and performance, our IBM Power Cloud ensures your mission critical applications run better than ever in a fully managed, always optimized environment built on the latest and greatest IBM Power hardware.

For data center consolidation

Consolidate your infrastructure by migrating IBM workloads to a low-latency, scalable cloud environment. This eliminates the need for expensive hardware refresh cycles while enabling modern cloud capabilities that empower modernization.

For disaster recovery and business continuity

Comprehensive DR capabilities ensure your RTO and RPO requirements are met. With 24/7 monitoring and annual failover testing, your critical workloads remain protected and recoverable at all times.

Frequently Asked Questions

IBM Power Cloud means running IBM Power Systems workloads, typically IBM i or AIX, on hosted infrastructure consumed as a service rather than on hardware you own. The distinction matters because IBM Power is a different processor architecture from the x86 servers that most public cloud runs on, so IBM i and AIX applications cannot simply be moved to a standard cloud instance. They need Power hardware underneath, which is why a specialized platform exists at all.

Lightedge IBM Power Cloud runs your IBM i and AIX workloads on IBM Power hardware in Lightedge data centers, managed by Lightedge engineers, with connectivity to AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud at under 2ms latency. Resources are allocated in 1/10 processor core increments with memory and storage per GB, so capacity matches the workload rather than a fixed instance size. Lightedge is the largest provider of IBM Power managed services and cloud hosting in North America, with over 150 IBM engineers and thousands of LPARs under management.

Lightedge standard cloud runs on IBM Power9 through Power11 hardware, including Power11, which IBM released in 2025. If you are currently running a release as far back as IBM i V5R4, our upgrade services bring you to a current, supported release as part of the migration, so an aging operating system does not block the move. That combination matters for estates that have fallen behind: you do not need to complete an OS upgrade on your existing hardware before you can migrate, because the upgrade happens as part of the project rather than as a prerequisite to it.

No. Because the workloads run on IBM Power hardware, IBM i and AIX applications run as they do today without refactoring, rewriting, or emulation. This is the central difference between moving IBM Power workloads to a Power based cloud and attempting to move them into a general purpose public cloud, which would require re-platforming applications that in many cases have decades of accumulated business logic. Modernization becomes something you choose to do afterward rather than a precondition of moving.

Lightedge supports several replication approaches for IBM Power, including MIMIX, iTera, and SAN-to-SAN, selected based on your recovery time and recovery point objectives rather than a single default. Capacity can be rented during a declared disaster through IBM Power Cloud, which removes the cost of maintaining idle dedicated hardware for recovery while preserving full DR capability. Annual failover testing is included, which matters because untested DR is the most common reason recovery plans fail when they are actually needed.

Lightedge data centers provide direct connectivity to AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud at under 2ms latency. In practice this is what makes hybrid architecture viable for IBM Power estates: the core transactional workload stays on Power where it belongs, while analytics, AI, IoT processing, and modern application front ends run on hyperscaler services against that data without the round trip penalty that would make the architecture impractical. This is the most common modernization path for organizations that want new capability without moving the system of record.

IBM Power Virtual Server is IBM’s own cloud service delivering Power hardware on demand within IBM Cloud. Lightedge offers it alongside its private IBM Power Cloud environment, so placement becomes a decision rather than a constraint: workloads can sit on premises, in the Lightedge private Power environment, or in IBM Cloud through PowerVS.

Yes, and it is one of the most common reasons organizations engage. Lightedge has over 150 IBM engineers and system administrators with expertise across IBM i and AIX system management, legacy application modernization, and Db2 optimization. Lightedge operates as an extension of your team rather than a replacement for it: your people keep application and business process ownership while Lightedge handles platform administration, monitoring, patching, and performance work. For organizations facing IBM i retirements with no obvious internal successor, this is often the deciding factor.

Lightedge provides continuous monitoring and compliance support for IBM Power environments, with controls aligned to HIPAA, HITRUST, and PCI DSS requirements and audit ready documentation.

Yes, and this is the most common reason organizations pursue hybrid architecture for IBM Power. Rather than moving the system of record, you connect it: sub 2ms latency to AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud means analytics, machine learning, and AI services can work against IBM i and Db2 data in near real time while the transactional workload stays on Power. This avoids the alternative of replicating data into a separate platform, which introduces lag, cost, and a second copy to secure and govern.

The usual triggers are a hardware refresh or maintenance renewal coming due, a data center lease ending, the retirement or departure of the person who understands the IBM i environment, a compliance or DR requirement the current setup cannot meet, or an AI and analytics initiative that needs access to data currently locked on the platform.

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