Accelerate Your AI & Digital Transformation with Li9's Integrated IBM & Red Hat Expertise

As your trusted partner for enterprise open source solutions, Li9 specializes in architecting and implementing future-proof IT.

We leverage IBM and Red Hat technologies including IBM watsonx and Fusion HCI and Red Hat OpenShift and Ansible, to create high-availability, secure, and fully automated environments that empower you to build, deploy, and manage predictive and generative AI models at scale.

Drive your digital future with confidence.

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Li9's Strategic Partners

Li9 is a trusted partner in IBM's ecosystem for Enterprise AI, delivering technical expertise in implementing, integrating, and scaling IBM watsonx solutions.

We help customers move AI projects from 'sandbox to production' and achieve measurable ROI, driving real business value.  Our proficiency extends to:

  • Deploying and optimizing IBM watsonx solutions on Public Cloud and Red Hat OpenShift on Public Cloud, accelerating your AI initiatives.

  • Leveraging IBM Fusion HCI System for robust on-premise and private cloud environments, seamlessly supporting VMs, Containers, and watsonx AI solutions, including petabytes of unstructured data.

  • Enabling enterprises to achieve tangible business value from their AI investments by ensuring solutions are effectively implemented and scaled.

We are deeply committed to open source principles and hold premier capabilities in Red Hat's foundational pillars: OpenShift, Ansible Automation Platform, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI.

This expertise is recognized by Red Hat, who designated Li9 as the 1st Expert Level Partner for both OpenShift Containers and Ansible Automation!

We specialize in driving adoption and delivering robust solutions across any cloud environment. Our proven track record includes:

  • Complete replacement of Kubernetes environments with OpenShift, enabling enhanced scalability and simplified management.

  • Large-scale migrations of 100K+ VMware Servers to OpenShift, ensuring seamless transitions and improved efficiency.

  • Integrated Infrastructure as Code with Continuous Application Deployment, providing complete hands-off solutions for accelerated delivery.

Solutions Designed to Accelerate Modernization

IBM Fusion HCI On-Premise Appliance

Deploy Red Hat OpenShift on purpose-built infrastructure.   Scale confidently with built-in resiliency and seamless integration across Red Hat OpenShift Containers, Virtual Windows and Linux Servers, and IBM watsonx AI GPUs.

Fusion HCI unifies compute, storage and networking into a single IBM appliance with proactive 24x7 support for Hardware and Software, to provide:  Maximum Performance,  Operational Simplicity  &  Cost Efficiency!

OpenShift Virtualization Platform

Modernize your virtualization without the headache. Seamlessly integrate your virtual machines into a high-availability OpenShift environment. This allows you to manage both containers and VMs from a single, unified platform, improving efficiency and reducing downtime. Let us help you quickly evaluate and implement this powerful solution. Let us help you quickly evaluate and implement this powerful solution.

OpenShift Container Platform Pilot

 

Start your containerization journey with confidence. Our OpenShift Container Platform Pilot gets you up and running with a production-ready Red Hat OpenShift environment in as little as two weeks. We'll implement a best-practices architecture designed for security, scalability, and rapid innovation, giving you a solid foundation for your cloud-native applications.

VMware to OpenShift Migration

Break free from vendor lock-in and modernize your infrastructure. Our VMware to OpenShift Migration service helps you seamlessly transition your applications to a more agile and cost-effective Red Hat OpenShift platform. Future-proof your IT, reduce licensing costs, and embrace the power of a unified, cloud-native environment.

IBM watsonx on Fusion HCI with Ceph Storage

Deploy the full power of IBM watsonx in days, not weeks. Our pre-integrated system provides a turnkey, on-premises AI platform that eliminates infrastructure complexity. It is engineered for extreme query acceleration, simplified management, and superior economics.

IBM Data Cataloging with Fusion HCI

Your unstructured data is growing, creating risk and cost. This Pilot provides an end-to-end solution to find, classify, and manage it all. We deploy a unified catalog powered by IBM Fusion HCI, allowing you to reduce storage costs, enhance governance, and accelerate your AI and analytics initiatives by making all enterprise data discoverable.

Cloud vs. On-Premise GPUs: A 3-Year Cost & Strategy

The choice between cloud and on-premise GPUs has significant long-term financial implications, especially when scaling machine learning models or accelerating complex simulations.   Our 3-year TCO analysis compares leading cloud providers against IBM Fusion HCUon-premise deployments, quantifying everything from initial acquisition to ongoing operational expenses. This clear, data-driven comparison empowers your strategic infrastructure decisions.

About Li9

Li9 Technology Solutions builds transformative, high-performance IT platforms for the enterprise. With a decade of deep expertise, our solutions leverage the power and security of premier open-source technologies from IBM and Red Hat.

We also know that the best solution often requires a team of specialists. To deliver truly comprehensive results, we extend our capabilities by partnering with a curated network of fellow IBM and Red Hat experts. This collaborative approach means you get the exact expertise you need, fully integrated and managed by Li9 to solve your toughest challenges.

With Li9  you receive a complete and seamless solution tailored to your specific needs.

 

Learn More About Li9

Areas of Expertise

Navigate your digital future with confidence. Li9 guides your organization through complex Modernization & Digital Transformation journeys, leveraging our deep expertise in IBM and Red Hat technologies. From optimizing legacy infrastructure to modernizing applications, we build future-proof solutions that drive business agility and innovation.

Hybrid Cloud Architectures

 

Build a truly agile and consistent enterprise cloud. Li9 architects seamless Hybrid Cloud Architectures leveraging Red Hat OpenShift to unify your on-premise environments, including IBM Fusion HCI, with public cloud platforms. Run any workload, anywhere, with consistent operations and management.

Automation & Orchestration

 

Accelerate operations and reduce complexity. Li9 implements powerful, end-to-end Automation & Orchestration solutions using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Terraform Infrastructure as Code.  Achieve faster application delivery, improved operational efficiency, and consistent governance across your IT landscape.

Enterprise-Ready AI with IBM watsonx

 

Transform your enterprise with production-ready AI. Li9 helps organizations harness the full potential of IBM watsonx, delivering trusted, ethical, and scalable AI solutions from foundation models to intelligent automation that drive real business results and accelerate innovation.

Data Lakehouse Solutions

 

Unlock the strategic value of all your data. Li9 designs and deploys modern Data Lakehouse solutions that unify analytics, AI, and governance, transforming siloed, complex data into a powerful, real-time asset. We build the foundation for insight, automation, and advanced AI-driven innovation.

Success Stories

See how Li9 has delivered significant value for enterprises through innovative IBM and Red Hat solutions.

Modernization for a Major Airline

 

A major U.S. airline needed to migrate over 100 critical applications from an aging on-premise OpenShift 3.11 platform to a modern, cloud-based solution on AWS without disrupting operations.

Li9 engineered a new, production-ready OpenShift 4 environment on AWS, established a CI/CD pipeline, and successfully migrated all applications, ensuring business continuity and empowering the airline's team.

Secure Cloud for a Global Consulting Firm

A global consulting firm required a stable and secure platform on AWS GovCloud to replace an outdated OpenShift environment, meeting strict compliance needs for their federal clients.

Li9 architected a secure OpenShift 4.x platform, integrated advanced security tools, and implemented Ansible automation, enabling accelerated and compliant application deployment.

Cloud Adoption for a Biotech Firm

A leading North American energy firm faced high costs and complexity in their on-premise data centers and needed to migrate to AWS to improve scalability and disaster recovery.

Li9 led a comprehensive cloud adoption strategy, designing a secure AWS landing zone and migrating critical workloads, resulting in significant cost reduction and a resilient, future-ready infrastructure.

Infrastructure Modernization for an Energy Firm

A U.S. energy firm's weather prediction performance was hampered by a manual, difficult-to-scale High-Performance Computing (HPC) environment, delaying critical forecasting.

Li9 designed and built a fully automated HPC cluster using Ansible Automation Platform, enabling rapid scaling and reducing the time to run weather models from days to just hours.

Expert Certifications & Accreditations

Li9 leads the industry with over 400 certifications across diverse technologies. We leverage this expertise through strategic partnerships with numerous technology vendors who seamlessly integrate their solutions with Red Hat and Open Source ecosystems.

Li9 employs 3 of the world’s highest Red Hat Certified Architects, possessing the highest number of Red Hat certifications globally.