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IBM's Power Autonomous Operations (PAO) 1.0 is now generally available. According to heise online, this version became generally available on September 23, 2026, and its built-in AI agents support querying and managing Power environments running IBM i, AIX, and Linux using natural language. IBM says it can identify and resolve capacity bottlenecks up to 15 times faster than manual operations; this figure is vendor data. PAO is deployed as a virtual appliance on a PowerVM LPAR or PowerVS and provides more than 40 functions through two MCP servers; it does not yet support directly reading data generated by customer operating systems such as IBM i and AIX.
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IBM launches Power Autonomous Operations: manage Power servers through natural language conversation
IBM's Power Autonomous Operations (PAO) 1.0 became generally available on September 23, 2026. Its built-in AI agent supports querying and managing Power environments running IBM i, AIX, and Linux using natural language. IBM claims it can identify and resolve capacity bottlenecks up to 15 times faster than manual operations; this figure is vendor data. PAO is deployed as a virtual appliance on a PowerVM LPAR or PowerVS and provides more than 40 functions through two MCP servers. It does not currently support directly reading data generated by customer operating systems such as IBM i and AIX.