By Alex Woodie
Publication Date: 2026-10-12 04:05:00
October 12, 2026
Alex Woodie
IBM is now shipping Power Autonomous Operations, a new product that uses AI to help customers manage and optimize their Power environments with little to no human involvement. In addition to lowering the manual effort for administrators, the product provides a natural language interface for administrators, which IBM says lowers operational burden and accelerates problem resolution.
Big Blue unveiled Power Autonomous Operations in July when it made its delayed Spring Technology Refresh (TR) for IBM i and announced the Power S1112 entry-level machine. It started shipping Autonomous Ops on September 23.
Just as Bob is helping to accelerate productivity of developers, the Autonomous Ops product is bringing agentic AI capabilities to Power administrators who would normally manage their environments from various tools in the IBM i stack.
The base…