The IBM Power Systems product line supports a broad range of workloads running on IBM AIX (Unix), IBM i, and Linux operating systems. This paper focuses on the IBM i operating environment and its ability to support business-critical workloads running on Power Systems. IBM i (formerly known as i5/OS) supports virtualized, highly available transaction processing and line-of-business (LOB) applications and its typically deployed in industries such as financial services, manufacturing, and distribution, where business continuity that ensures access to end users and end customers in the organization and the supply chain is especially important.
