Power11 | Seize The Moment To Upgrade

Why upgrade to IBM Power11 now

IBM Power11: the clear upgrade path

Official IBM support for a number of Power9-based servers ends in January 2026. If you have applications running on one of these models, you could be facing significantly higher operational costs and business risk.

Sure, staying on Power9 or moving to Power10 would save you some capital in the short term.

But Northdoor recommends you jump straight to Power11. As an IBM Gold partner with Specialist status in IBM Power, we can show how sticking with older hardware is usually a false economy. And we can help you measure the likely ROI benefits of Power11 through a free Power TCO Study.

Find out about a free Power TCO Study.

More capabilities in a fully supported package

The clock is ticking on Power9 support—it’s time to think about what’s best for your business. Power11 offers up to 55% better core performance compared to Power9 and has up to 45% more capacity with higher core counts in entry and mid-range systems compared to Power10. Power11 offers new capabilities, reduced operational costs, and greater possibilities.

Don’t wait, seize the benefits of Power11 today.

Autonomous system management

Power11 offers fully autonomous patching and automated workload movement, so planned system maintenance events can occur without ever taking critical applications offline. This autonomous system management frees your team from planning, testing, and executing system upgrades, enabling greater focus on higher-value work and innovation.

Imagine how Power11 could transform your IT admin workload and service delivery.

Guaranteed sub-60-second ransomware threat detection

The fully integrated IBM Cyber Vault solution helps to identify, protect, detect, and automatically respond to threats. Cyber Vault provides protection against cyberattacks such as data corruption and encryption with proactive immutable snapshots that are automatically captured, stored, and tested on a custom-defined schedule.

Power11 can dramatically reduce your cyber risk and protect your business.

Quantum-safe encryption

Power11 offers built-in quantum-safe cryptography, designed to help protect systems from harvest-now, decrypt-later attacks as well as firmware integrity attacks.

Even as quantum computing threatens formerly uncrackable cyphers, Power11 protects against current and unknown threats.

Power11 quantum-safe encryption helps secure your data against bad actors.

Leaner, greener compute-per-watt

Power11 offers twice the performance per watt when compared to x86 servers, and up to 28 percent better efficiency in the new Energy Efficient Mode compared to Maximum Performance Mode. With reduced environmental impacts, Power11 delivers meaningful efficiency gains across the IT stack.

How cool – literally – is that for future generations? And for your company’s ESG objectives?