By Dan Robinson
Publication Date: 2026-04-02 16:32:00
IBM and Arm are working together on getting software developed for Arm chips to run on Big Blue’s enterprise systems, with an eye on future AI and data-intensive workloads.
Big Blue hailed this latest arrangement as a strategic collaboration with Arm to develop new dual‑architecture hardware. The goal is to combine the reliability, security, and scalability of IBM’s enterprise systems with Arm’s expertise in power‑efficient compute and broad software ecosystem, it said.
The partnership will focus on three key areas, with the first being to use virtualization to allow Arm-based software environments to operate within Big Blue’s enterprise computing platforms, such as the IBM Z and LinuxONE mainframe kit.
The second area covers the performance and efficiency demands of modern workloads, including AI and data intensive applications. IBM says that this will cover getting enterprise systems to recognize and…