# How CockroachDB and IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper 5 Power Resilient AI Infrastructure

DevFeed: [How CockroachDB and IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper 5 Power Resilient AI Infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-cockroachdb-and-ibm-linuxone-rockhopper-5-power-resilient-ai-infrastructure-23791.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://cockroachlabs.com/blog/ibm-linuxone-rockhopper-5-ai-infrastructure>)

Author: Kyle Basile

Published: 2026-07-07T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Cockroach Labs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/cockroach-labs.md>)

Topics: [AI Infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-infrastructure.md>), [NVIDIA DGX](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/nvidia-dgx.md>), [CockroachDB](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cockroachdb.md>), [ibm](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ibm.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [AI Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-development.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-infrastructure.md>), [availability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/availability.md>), [cockroachdb](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cockroachdb.md>), [concurrency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/concurrency.md>), [consistency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/consistency.md>), [customers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/customers.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [digital](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/digital.md>), [distributed](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/distributed.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [enterprise](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/enterprise.md>), [failover](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/failover.md>), [financial](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/financial.md>), [ibm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ibm.md>), [identity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/identity.md>), [identity-and-access](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/identity-and-access.md>), [identity-and-access-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/identity-and-access-management.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains how enterprise AI workloads increase requirements for continuous data availability, high concurrency, real-time decision-making, and elastic scaling. It presents IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper 5 and CockroachDB as infrastructure and data-platform components for resilient AI applications, including semantic retrieval, embeddings, agent memory, and transactional consistency.

## Source excerpt

Why does AI require a new approach to infrastructure?