IBM Data and AI Redbooks

29 January 2026, Draft Redpaper

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies are developing rapidly. The significant advancements in processing power achieved through the latest generations of graphics processing units (GPUs) enable the development and deployment of increasingly complex AI models. This leads to the creation and adoption of large-scale foundation models and large language models (LLMs). These models are the ...

15 December 2025, Redpaper

This Redpaper describes a high performance file and block access solution using IBM® Storage Virtualize and IBM Storage Scale to provide file access interfaces suited for diverse workloads— traditional, cloud-era, and emerging (example: SAP, web applications, genome analysis). It offers a step- by-step guide for implementation engineers to integrate IBM FlashSystem® and legacy IBM Storwize® for ...

12 December 2025, Draft Redpaper

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to transform industries, organizations are seeking powerful, secure, and scalable platforms to deploy AI workloads. IBM Z®, renowned for its enterprise-grade reliability and performance, is uniquely positioned to meet this demand. This IBM Redbooks publication introduces readers to the evolving landscape of AI on IBM Z, offering a comprehensive overview ...

14 November 2025, Redpaper

The AI Toolkit for IBM Z and LinuxONE is a comprehensive suite of tools designed to streamline the development and deployment of AI models on IBM's enterprise-grade platforms. This toolkit empowers developers and data scientists to leverage the power of IBM Z and LinuxONE systems for AI workloads, offering a seamless integration with popular AI frameworks and libraries. It includes features such ...

30 October 2025, Draft Redpaper

IBM Storage Insights is a cloud-based service providing essential observability for analyzing, protecting, and optimizing your storage infrastructure. It gives administrators critical metadata-derived metrics on performance, capacity, and security. To enhance operational efficiency and proactive issue resolution, this metadata can be disseminated to various ecosystem services throughout your ...

20 October 2025, Redbooks

IBM® Fusion HCI as a Catalyst explores how IBM Fusion Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) serves as a strategic enabler for the IBM watsonx® platform, transforming infrastructure from a passive resource layer into an active catalyst for AI-driven enterprise innovation. This Redbook provides a comprehensive roadmap for planning, deploying, and managing watsonx solutions on Fusion HCI, covering ...

07 October 2025, Redpaper

IBM Synthetic Data Sets is a family of artificially generated, enterprise-grade datasets that enhance predictive artificial intelligence (AI) model training and large language models (LLMs) to benefit IBM Z® and IBM LinuxONE clients, ecosystems, and independent software vendors. These pre-built datasets are downloadable and packaged as comma-separated values (CSVs) and data definition language ...

28 August 2025, Redbooks

Recent global changes have impacted IT. Organizations are accelerating digital transformation to support an increasingly always-on world. IT leaders are focused on modernizing critical processes and operations to gain a competitive advantage in this dynamic environment. Application modernization (updating applications to improve maintenance, extension, deployment, and management) is essential to ...

07 August 2025, Redbooks

As part of the IBM i modernization initiative, IBM i Merlin (Modernization Engine for Life Cycle Integration) offers a fully integrated and supported suite of tools from IBM. MERLIN enables seamless integration into CI/CD pipelines and provides powerful code modernization capabilities, including fixed-to-free RPG conversion, native Git-based source control, and application impact ...

27 June 2025, Redpaper

This IBM Redpaper explores the practical application of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation within IBM Storage Insights, empowering you to optimize your storage environment through data-driven insights. From accurate capacity planning to detecting performance deviations and using AI-based workload advisories for storage partitions, this paper equips you with the tools to master proactive ...