Your mission-critical systems,
cared for long after your last
AIX admin retires.
PowerTrue is the specialist team that runs your critical systems better than a single hire could — senior engineers, disciplined operations, and a predictable per-system subscription.
Founder-run by a senior specialist with ~30 years in enterprise infrastructure — two decades of it on IBM Power and AIX — including 15 years on a large insurance Power estate and managed Power infrastructure at a cloud provider. Across the team, 60 years of combined AIX and IBM Power experience.
Three ways this becomes your problem.
The pillar nobody can see into.
A core application runs on AIX because it has for twenty years. It sits in the corner and behaves — so nobody can say, today, whether the backups restore, how far behind the patches are, or what breaks when the hardware leaves support. The risk isn't that it's badly run. The risk is that no one knows.
The retirement on the calendar.
One administrator has run these systems since they were installed. He is excellent. He is also retiring — and when he goes, the environment stays, but everything unwritten about it leaves with him.
The admin who never chose it.
You run the application — the database, the ERP, the core. Then the last Unix person left, and the server underneath became yours too. Nobody handed you a runbook. AIX doesn't come with one.
Three different doors into the same room: a business-critical system whose true condition is unknown, resting on one person or no one. The way out starts with seeing inside it — that's what the free assessment is for.
The people who know these systems are leaving faster than they're replaced.
AIX remains under active enterprise development, with IBM's roadmap committed into the 2030s5 — and it runs workloads that can't simply move. The expertise to care for it is another matter.
From "nobody's looked" to never falling behind again.
Four stages, each one earned before the next. You can stop after any of them and keep everything.
AIXray
A free, read-only AIXray assessment of one system you choose — end-of-support exposure, patch and CVE currency, storage, errors, security — scored in plain English, with a full written plan for that system. Yours to keep either way.
PowerTrue Blueprint
The same assessment across your whole estate, with a written transformation plan per system — condition, sequence, and price. A low-cost engagement, 100% credited if you proceed within 90 days. Yours to act on with anyone, including without us.
The plan is the deliverable
PowerTrue Fortify
The program that works the Blueprint: bring neglected systems current, hardened, and documented — priced by condition, with a defined finish line it visibly reaches.
PowerTrue Refresh
When the Blueprint says the estate isn't worth fixing in place: we build and run a new, current, hardened Power environment; your team moves your applications onto it.
PowerTrue Bulwark
The managed service that keeps every system at the fortified standard — monitoring, structured patching, verified backups, capacity and lifecycle planning, a monthly report. So the backlog that brought you here never re-forms.
The order is the point: we look before we plan, plan before we touch anything, and only then take responsibility for keeping it right — permanently. Every stage produces a written artifact you keep.
The support clock is already running.
If you run Power9 with VIOS 3.1, you are already past two support cliffs.
- April 2023AIX 7.1 end of support — paid service extensions only since.6
- January 2026Power9 scale-out servers (S914 / S922 / S924) end of standard support — no further IBM firmware or security fixes under standard service.7
- April 2026VIOS 3.1 end of standard support — the virtualization layer beneath most Power9 estates.8
- November 2026AIX 7.3 TL2 end of support — and TL3 follows in December 2027. Staying patched is continuous work.9
Most AIX outages aren't exotic. They're deferred.
A filesystem that filled up. A mirror that broke quietly in March and nobody noticed. A mksysb no one ever test-restored. A patch level three years behind the CVE list. An error log that had been warning for weeks. These are the ordinary ways these systems go down — and every one is visible in advance, if someone is looking.
Disciplined operations — monitoring, structured patching, verified backups, written runbooks — doesn't prevent outages with heroics. It removes whole categories of them from your future. The free assessment shows you which of these are already true on one of your systems — scored red, amber, green, in plain English.
Real output from a sanitized AIX 7.3 LPAR — this is the report you keep.
Evidence-based, not patch-and-pray.
The first real work in almost every neglected estate is an upgrade — bringing systems current that haven't been touched in years. The industry's usual method is a change window and a prayer. Ours is different: map the risk first, in writing, from evidence — what's actually running, what's known to break on that path, what the rollback is — before anything is touched.
And every engagement makes the method sharper. What we verify in one upgrade — the failure modes, the safe paths, what actually broke and why — is captured into a curated intelligence library we are building deliberately, so the next similar system starts from evidence instead of folklore. It's early, it's ours, and it compounds.
- Deterministic automation does the doing. Everything that touches a client system is a tested, version-controlled runbook or monitoring rule — never an AI improvising on production.
- AI does the thinking, not the acting. Our platform reads advisories at scale, cross-checks findings, and drafts plans — then hands a senior engineer a prepared decision. It proposes; it never disposes.
- An expert is always in the middle. Every change is made or approved by a named engineer, logged, and attributable — and your data stays on models we operate, never an outside AI service without your explicit, contracted consent.
- How we leverage AI — and how we protect your data →
Quietly in production today.
We care for 16 enterprise Linux systems for a regional health system — where downtime is measured in patient impact, not dollars. The IBM Power hardware underneath has led independent server-reliability rankings for 16 consecutive years4 — exceptional engineering that still depends on disciplined people to run it. That discipline is the job we do.
- No single point of failure. Your environment is captured in writing — runbooks, an indexed history, a living per-system record — so running it never depends on one person's memory.
- Evidence, not adjectives. Every statistic we publish is cited; our estimates are labeled as estimates.
- Senior specialists. The work is done by engineers with decades on IBM Power and AIX — not a first-tier ticket queue.
- It compounds. The service understands your environment a little better every month it runs.
It stops being a black box. Permanently.
A monthly report you can actually read.
What was patched, what was found, what's coming — written for a manager to read in ten minutes and hand to leadership.
An environment that's written down.
Runbooks, an indexed history, a living record of every system — documentation that stays yours, so nothing about your environment lives only in someone's head. Including ours.
Work you can verify, not take on faith.
Every action is tied to a named person, logged, and session-recorded — with the recordings kept in your environment, not ours.
The value isn't only that the work gets done. It's that you can see it being done — and explain it, in one sentence, to anyone who asks.
Built for the question your examiner asks first.
For a hospital or a credit union, the first objection is "where does our data go, and what touches it?" Our answer is architectural, not a promise.
In your environment
Monitoring runs on a hardened appliance inside your walls — agentless, outbound-only, no VPN. Nothing of ours sits in your critical path.
Scrubbed before it's stored
Secrets and sensitive data are redacted before anything is written down.
No third-party AI by default
Analysis runs on models we operate; your data is never sent to an outside AI service without your explicit, contracted consent.
Named accounts, full audit
Every action is tied to a named person and logged, and session recordings stay on the appliance — in your environment, not ours.
Predictable. Simple. Built for a decade, not a quarter.
We publish the shape of the model; managed-service pricing is quoted from your assessment. Getting to the standard (PowerTrue Fortify) is priced by each system's measured condition — the assessment is the pricing instrument, so the price argues for itself.
Per managed system
One monthly rate per system under care — LPAR, VM, VIOS, or the frame itself.
One service level
Every system gets identical care. No classifications to choose, no thresholds to game.
Graduated with scale
The per-system rate steps down as your managed estate grows.
A 3-year partnership
Locked rate schedule and priority terms for organizations planning in decades.
See exactly what we do — on one of your systems.
Pick one system. We'll assess it the way we would on day one of managing it, walk you through the findings, and leave you a full written plan for that system — the same format and rigor as the paid Blueprint. No cost, no obligation. The assessment is powered by AIXray, our own assessment engine.
Sources
- Fortra, 2026 IBM i Marketplace Survey (n=315), via IT Jungle, "Skills Displaces Cybersecurity As Top Concern For IBM i Shops," Feb 2, 2026. itjungle.com. Survey covers IBM i shops — the same IBM Power platform and talent pool. Retrieved June 2026.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook, Network and Computer Systems Administrators, 2024–34 projections (occupation-wide, not AIX-specific). bls.gov. Retrieved June 2026.
- Uptime Institute, Annual Outage Analysis 2025 (survey of data-center operators; respondents' most recent significant, serious, or severe outage). uptimeinstitute.com. Retrieved June 2026.
- ITIC 2024 Global Server Hardware & Server OS Reliability Survey (1,950 businesses, self-reported), via TechChannel, Nov 27, 2024. techchannel.com. Retrieved June 2026.
- IT Jungle, "AIX: The Last Standing Commercial Unix," Feb 13, 2023. itjungle.com. Retrieved June 2026.
- IBM AIX support lifecycle (mirrored at endoflife.date). Retrieved June 2026.
- IBM announcement letter AD25-0134; IT Jungle, "A Year From Now, Most Power9 Systems Bite The Rust," Jan 27, 2025. itjungle.com. Paid IBM support extensions and third-party maintenance remain available; E950/E980 not included. Retrieved June 2026.
- IBM, PowerVM VIOS Lifecycle Information. ibm.com. Retrieved June 2026.
- IBM AIX support lifecycle via endoflife.date and Park Place Technologies EOSL data. Retrieved June 2026.