IBM officially sells Power 8 system server

"Tenkine Server channel June 16 News" Recently, IBM has officially launched Power system server based on power 8, these servers are for large data http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13999. HTML > Workload optimized. It is clear that the release of the Power 8 server poses a head-on collision with Intel's earlier release of the Xeon E7 v2 server.

The newly launched three Power 8 power system server can run Linux, IBM AIX, or IBM I operating systems. After the release of the Power 8 chip, IBM spent 1 billion dollars to the ISVs (independent software developers) to provide them with free tools, help them develop, test, and migrate x86 applications to the power platform.

According to the information provided by the partners, IBM offers channel partners incentives to stimulate sales, IBM will guarantee sales Power 8 will receive a two-digit minimum profit, and will provide the processor value unit level, to the IBM Application software licensing cost reduction of 20% to 30%.

To expand the power platform, IBM has also set up a OpenPOWER foundation with other vendors. The OpenPOWER Foundation can authorize IBM's Power 8 design, and IBM will provide the latest version of Ubuntu server, Ubuntu OpenStack, Canonical's JuJu Cloud coordination tool and the compatible power system version of the Linux based virtualization platform KVM.

Bae, general manager of IBM's power, Doug Balog, said customers chose to run Linux on power Bae because they were looking for better value open server solutions to help them better handle and leverage growing volumes of data.

It is clear that the IBM release of the Power 8 server and the Intel E7 V2 server in the market head-on conflict has been inevitable. The server products of two different architecture processors undoubtedly bring more choices to enterprise users.