AMD enhances IBM Cloud's global cloud infrastructure

Chip designer AMD, has announced that IBM Cloud is enhancing its global infrastructure with second generation AMD EPYC processors to power its latest bare metal servers.

With the addition of the AMD EPYC 7642 processor to its cloud portfolio, IBM is engineered to deliver increased computing performance in its bare metal offerings. Available now, these new bare metal servers are the first second generation AMD EPYC based offering from IBM Cloud and are focused on the computing power and performance required to accelerate modern workloads like data analytics, electronic design automation, artificial intelligence (AI) and virtualised and containerised workloads.

Forrest Norrod, senior vice president and general manager, Data Centre and Embedded Solutions, AMD, said second generation AMD EPYC processors deliver where it counts for cloud providers, providing the cores, scalability and throughput for critical workloads. “We are extremely excited to extend the advantages of second generation AMD EPYC processors to new bare metal offerings at IBM Cloud, helping customers tackle today’s compute-intensive workloads,” he said.

“We are thrilled to launch new IBM Cloud offerings powered by the 2nd gen AMD EPYC CPUs,” said Satinder Sethi, general manager, IBM Cloud Infrastructure Services.“With these new processors, we can offer IBM Cloud clients greater choice and flexibility to select the platform that is best suited to meet the needs of today’s most demanding workloads.  We look forward to continuing to deliver new innovations and value to our clients in the future.”