August 22, 2025
Nearly nine out of ten organizations report that compliance complexity is directly interfering with their ability to implement and maintain their IT systems and data.1 Organizations today, including many of your customers and prospects, face mounting challenges in maintaining their IT infrastructure. Growing regulatory requirements amplify technical challenges, making operations more difficult, slower and more expensive.
Consider what this means in practical terms. When an IT team needs to patch a critical vulnerability, they can't simply download and install the fix anymore. Instead, they may need to know if a patch complies with industry regulations. Will it affect its compliance posture? Do they need to document this change for auditors?
What this means is that the burden shifts from addressing the vulnerability itself to managing the ripple effects of compliance. And when these processes rely on manual checks and disconnected tools, the complexity compounds quickly. The result? Downtime that disrupts business operations, forcing teams to work nights and weekends just to keep systems running.
The irony is that all this effort doesn't make organizations safer; it makes them more vulnerable. Delayed patching leaves organizations exposed for longer and fragmented visibility means teams can't prioritize threats effectively.
The path forward: Intelligent automation with IBM
The solution is IBM Concert, which allows your customers to replace manual, reactive processes with intelligent automation that handles complexity while freeing up human expertise.
Across industries, modern AI-driven systems are transforming how organizations detect vulnerabilities, assess risk and respond to threats. Instead of reacting after problems appear, these systems proactively maintain security and compliance in the background.
IBM is leading this shift with IBM Concert and IBM Power. Together, they deliver intelligent automation designed for resilience. Concert orchestrates risk detection, scoring and remediation, while IBM Power provides a platform built for seamless, zero-planned-downtime operations. Instead of spending hours chasing compliance requirements, these solutions allow teams to shift to proactive resilience. Customers can focus on strategic initiatives while automated systems handle the routine but critical work of keeping infrastructure secure and compliant.
How IBM Concert works with IBM Power
While IBM Concert brings AI to vulnerability management across your customers' diverse environments, its integration with IBM Power creates a unique market combination. The IBM Power automated maintenance framework was designed to work with orchestration tools like Concert, delivering end-to-end vulnerability management without human intervention or business disruption.
The integration follows four steps:
- Discover: Automatically inventories firmware, virtual I/O servers and the hardware management console (HMC) while detecting Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs)
- Understand: Places those vulnerabilities in context, scoring risk and consolidating visibility
- Recommend: Provides prioritized guidance on which CVEs to address first and outlines possible remediation steps
- Act: Executes automated fixes through low-code workflows
Zero planned downtime: A unique advantage
For customers, the standout value is built-in automated maintenance. IBM Concert relies on watsonx-driven workflows to detect, prioritize and remediate automatically without interrupting applications. The result is stronger security, enhanced business continuity and IT teams freed from mundane and repetitive tasks.
Why it matters for you and your customers
By bringing IBM Concert with IBM Power into your portfolio, you can:
- Show clients how to improve resilience without disruption
- Address top pain points such as security, compliance and downtime risk with a single, integrated solution
- Position yourself as a trusted advisor who can guide AI-driven transformation with IBM's best technologies
By combining IBM Concert and IBM Power, you're giving customers a way to reduce complexity, strengthen compliance and protect uptime with automation they can trust. It's a combination that give you a compelling story to bring to your conversations. Learn more from Arrow's IBM specialists at our recent webinar.
Don't miss this partner-exclusive opportunity to boost your IBM portfolio and help customers achieve IT resilience through AI-driven automation.
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