Built for the organizations whose systems can't stop.
Small and mid-size organizations running mission-critical workloads on IBM Power — usually with one or two platform specialists, and no bench behind them.
Three ways in.
A system nobody can see into
A business-critical AIX box that just works — so no one can say, today, what shape it's really in.
A retirement on the calendar
The one admin who knows these systems is leaving, and most of what he knows is unwritten.
An admin who inherited the box
You own the application; the Unix server underneath became yours when the last specialist left.
Where downtime is measured in patients, not dollars.
Hospital operational databases have run on IBM Power and AIX for years — IBM published a validated Epic-on-Power reference architecture as recently as 2022,1 and the InterSystems IRIS data platform underneath Epic-class systems lists AIX as fully supported in its current documentation.2
Peer-reviewed research documents what every hospital IT leader already knows: EHR downtime is a real patient-safety hazard, with laboratory and medication workflows hit hardest.3 And many systems are now migrating Epic to Linux — a multi-year move during which the AIX estate still carries live clinical load. Whether you're keeping those systems or safely retiring them, stewarding them through the transition is a clinical need, not just an IT one.
- HIPAA requires contingency planning. A data backup plan, disaster recovery plan, and emergency-mode operation plan are all "Required" implementation specifications — and the rule explicitly names "system failure" as a covered emergency (45 CFR 164.308(a)(7)).4
- The bar may rise. A proposed HHS Security Rule update would require restoring critical systems within 72 hours of an outage. It is proposed, not final — but it signals where regulators are heading.5
- A measurable baseline. We hold managed systems to the CIS Level 1 security benchmark and scan for drift — evidence for the contingency and access-control posture your auditors expect.
- Our anchor engagement is a health system. We care for 16 enterprise Linux systems for a regional health system today.
Your core runs on Power. Your examiner knows it too.
Jack Henry's Symitar Episys — the core at roughly 650 credit unions — runs on IBM Power under AIX, and the vendor has told its customers to expect the platform for years to come.6 Corelation's KeyStone was built on AIX-on-Power, and Power remains a first-class KeyStone platform.7
Meanwhile the industry consolidates: 168 federally insured credit unions disappeared in 2025 alone, while membership and assets grew8 — survivors carry more members on the same thin IT bench.
- FFIEC expectations. Examiners assess you against the FFIEC Business Continuity Management booklet — enterprise-wide resilience, tested and reported to the board, not a recovery binder on a shelf.9
- NCUA guidance. Credit unions are expected to maintain comprehensive, written, updated, and tested disaster-recovery and business-resumption plans.10
- What we bring to an exam. CIS Level 1 baseline posture, documented patching, verified backups, named-account audit trails, and a monthly report — the artifacts examiners ask for, produced as a byproduct of how we work.
The ERP that has run the plant for twenty years.
Across energy and manufacturing, IBM Power carries the ERP, scheduling, and operations workloads that have quietly run the business for decades — systems too proven to replace and too critical to neglect.
These shops feel the talent problem first: the skills shortage is now the #1 concern of IBM Power shops industry-wide — 69% in the latest survey, up from 45% in 2020.11 When the one person who knows the system gives notice, the clock starts.
- 1–2 person platform teams carrying production alone — we become the team behind them, or the succession plan after them.
- Mixed estates welcome. AIX leads our practice; the enterprise Linux around it is fully supported under the same care.
- Frames included. Firmware, HMC, and hardware lifecycle are part of the service — not an afterthought.
Not sure you fit? A free system assessment answers that too.
Pick one system; if we're not the right answer for it, the findings will say so — in writing, yours to keep.
Sources
- IBM Redpaper REDP-5539, "Electronic Health Records with Epic and IBM FlashSystem 9500," 2022 — includes AIX on Power8/Power9 configuration. redbooks.ibm.com. Retrieved June 2026.
- InterSystems, IRIS Data Platform 2026.1 Supported Platforms — IBM AIX 7.2/7.3 on POWER8 and higher. docs.intersystems.com. Retrieved June 2026.
- Larsen E, Fong A, Wernz C, et al., "Implications of electronic health record downtime: an analysis of patient safety event reports," JAMIA 2018;25(2):187–191. Via AHRQ PSNet: psnet.ahrq.gov. Retrieved June 2026.
- 45 CFR § 164.308(a)(7), HIPAA Security Rule administrative safeguards. law.cornell.edu. Retrieved June 2026.
- HHS OCR, HIPAA Security Rule Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, published Jan 6, 2025 (proposed; not final as of June 2026). Analysis: bradley.com. Retrieved June 2026.
- IT Jungle, "Inside Jack Henry's Long-Term Modernization Roadmap," Mar 28, 2022 — Symitar described as Jack Henry's AIX-based credit union core with about 650 customers. itjungle.com. Customer count as of 2022. Retrieved June 2026.
- Corelation Inc. press release, Oct 8, 2020 — KeyStone previously offered exclusively on IBM AIX with IBM Power hardware; RHEL on Power added. prnewswire.com. Retrieved June 2026.
- NCUA, Q4 2025 Credit Union System Performance Data, Mar 6, 2026 — 4,287 federally insured credit unions, down from 4,455 a year earlier. ncua.gov. Retrieved June 2026.
- FFIEC IT Examination Handbook, Business Continuity Management booklet (Nov 2019); OCC Bulletin 2019-57. occ.treas.gov. Retrieved June 2026.
- NCUA, Letter to Credit Unions 01-CU-21, "Disaster Recovery and Business Resumption Contingency Plans." ncua.gov. Retrieved June 2026.
- Fortra, 2026 IBM i Marketplace Survey (n=315; IBM i shops — the same IBM Power platform and talent pool), via IT Jungle, Feb 2, 2026. itjungle.com. Retrieved June 2026.