IBM Power Infrastructure as a Service for Google Cloud

This document is a technical report detailing the IBM Power for Google Cloud (IP4G) solution, which enables organizations to migrate their IBM Power workloads to Google Cloud. It outlines the capabilities of IP4G, which utilizes native IBM Power 9 and Power 10 hardware without custom hypervisors or emulation, supporting AIX, IBM i, and Linux on Power operating systems. The report explains the integrated Google Cloud experience, characterized by high performance and low latency access to Google Cloud services. It also discusses the benefits of IP4G, including lower operational costs, increased agility through on-demand resource scaling, and high availability designed for five nines of uptime. Additionally, the document presents various use cases such as production workloads, disaster recovery, and development/testing environments, emphasizing the flexibility of subscription models and the platform's compatibility with enterprise applications like SAP and Oracle. The report concludes with the advantages of leveraging Google Cloud's analytics alongside IBM Power systems.