Fusion: from rack to production in a day, from container to agentic AI
Two forces converge: AI demands a cloud-native platform with GPUs, and VMware price hikes push a rethink of virtualization. IBM Fusion answers both with a single platform.
Data is heavy: it's Data Gravity
In the cloud-native world applications are born and die in seconds, but data stays: persistent, heavy, hard to move and protect. Fusion removes this friction by making data native to the hybrid cloud like applications — with bare-metal performance and integrated resilience.
Under the hood is IBM Storage Scale, the high-performance parallel file system that gives containers and AI a single logical view of the data: Edge, Core and Cloud. No 'data tourism'.
The ready-to-use AI factory, and the VMware exit
Fusion HCI brings bare-metal compute, network and storage in an integrated rack, with automated OpenShift installation and up to 4 GPU nodes (NVIDIA L40S, H100 NVL or AMD MI210): on-prem inference and RAG, close to the data, with governance and sovereignty.
And with OpenShift Virtualization, VMs run next to containers on the same platform: you exit the hypervisor lock-in while keeping existing workloads — sharply lower TCO, bare-metal per-socket licensing.
How we start
A Discovery Session with our architects photographs the workloads: what to containerize, what to virtualize, where GPUs are needed. Then sizing, deployment and 24/7 management.
- Workload and requirement analysis (VMs, containers, AI)
- HCI or SDS architecture tailored to your SLAs
- Data migration and VMware exit, with knowledge transfer
- Managed 24/7 in our services, with Yocto Vision