LightEdge —
Multi-Cloud, Hybrid-Cloud, and IBM Power at Enterprise Scale

LightEdge is positioned for enterprises whose operating model requires deep multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud expertise — particularly organizations with workloads on IBM Power, AWS, Azure, and Microsoft 365 that need a single managed-services partner across all of them. The company is ranked in the top 1% of AWS partners globally, operates as North America's largest IBM Power cloud provider, and runs Managed Azure as a productized 24x7 service. The strongest fit is mid-market and enterprise organizations that are not refactoring their IBM Power workloads to a hyperscaler but want hyperscaler-style operational discipline applied to them, alongside Microsoft 365 backup, AWS managed operations, and disaster-recovery integration.

LightEdge's positioning as an industry leader in designing, managing, and optimizing multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud infrastructures means the operating model is built for enterprises that will keep workloads on multiple clouds indefinitely — IBM Power for AS400 and AIX, AWS for elastic compute, Azure for Microsoft-native workloads, and on-premises for data-sovereignty workloads. LightEdge handles the design (which workloads land where, with what connectivity, with what security posture), the management (24x7 operations across all platforms), and the optimization (cost, performance, compliance) as a single engagement rather than separate per-cloud contracts. That is the fundamental difference from a single-cloud managed-services partner.

LightEdge is North America's largest IBM Power cloud provider — meaning the organization runs IBM Power infrastructure at scale, with the operational depth that comes from operating it as a primary practice rather than a side service. The Power Cloud offering is paired with low-latency connectivity to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, so an enterprise running IBM AS400 or AIX workloads can keep them on Power while integrating cleanly with hyperscaler-native services for analytics, web tier, or AI workloads. That matters for buyers in industries where IBM Power is the production system of record — banking, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing — and where refactoring those workloads onto x86 hyperscalers is not on the near-term roadmap.

Managed Azure at LightEdge is round-the-clock infrastructure management on top of the customer's Azure tenancy — eliminating the operational complexity that buyers regularly underestimate when they sign Azure direct. The service covers infrastructure provisioning and patching, advanced compliance and security monitoring, cost optimization (right-sizing, reserved-instance management, anomaly detection), backup and DR integration, and 24x7 operations. The customer keeps the Azure relationship and the EA discount; LightEdge wraps the operational layer. This is the right fit for organizations whose IT team is responsible for Azure but does not want to staff the operations practice required to run it well at scale.

LightEdge's Fully Managed Microsoft 365 Backup is a robust backup-and-data-retention solution for Microsoft 365 — Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Teams — addressing the gap that Microsoft itself does not cover with a true backup product. The service provides granular, point-in-time recovery so individual emails, documents, and Teams messages can be restored without rolling back an entire tenant. Compliance adherence is built in for organizations under HIPAA, FINRA, and similar retention requirements. Disaster Recovery (DRaaS) capabilities tailored to recovery-time and recovery-point objectives across public, private, and hosted cloud environments round out the data-protection portfolio.

No. Your contract is signed directly with LightEdge and LightEdge's published pricing applies. Fibi's role is to scope your multi-cloud, IBM Power, Managed Azure, or DR objective against LightEdge and the most relevant alternatives — Flexential, TierPoint, OTAVA, Expedient, Rackspace Technology, and major regional cloud-managed-services providers — so you see how LightEdge compares across IBM Power depth, hyperscaler partnership tiers, and managed-cloud pricing. Fibi's advisory work is provider-funded, so the comparison comes at no additional cost to your business.