CHICAGO, Aug. 22, 2014
/PRNewswire/ -- At the LinuxCon North America conference
today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced it is tapping into its global
network of over 50 IBM Innovation Centers and IBM Client Centers to
help IBM Business Partners, IT professionals, academics, and
entrepreneurs develop and deliver new Big Data and cloud computing
software applications for clients using Linux on IBM Power Systems
servers.
Last year IBM committed $1 billion in new Linux and open source
technologies for its Power Systems servers including the opening of
five new Power Systems Linux Centers in Beijing, China, New
York, New York, Austin,
Texas, Montpelier, France
and Tokyo, Japan. Today over
1500 ISV applications are available for Linux on Power, fueled in
part by work performed at these centers.
IBM is adding Power Systems Linux services to its Innovation and
Client Centers to accelerate this momentum and meet growing global
demand for new kinds of software applications that take advantage
of IBM's superior POWER8 architecture. The expansion – a more than
10x increase in global reach – provides in-person and online access
to Linux on Power Systems application development resources to
potentially thousands of additional IBM Business Partners,
developers, and clients worldwide in key arenas including
Brazil, Russia, India, Vietnam, Australia, United
Kingdom and Germany.
Resources vary by location and can include:
- In-person and online Linux training workshops that show
developers how to easily migrate and optimize their applications
using Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, and
Canonical Ubuntu Server Linux technologies on Power Systems.
- Hands-on assistance from dedicated Linux and IBM systems
specialists to show developers how to take advantage of IBM's
unique POWER8 parallel processing and advanced virtualization
capabilities.
- Access to IBM's business consulting specialists and Business
Partner resources to develop joint go to market strategies for
Power System and Linux based solutions.
"The open server ecosystem IBM is developing around POWER8 and
Linux allows Zend to help our clients develop and deliver mobile
and cloud applications more rapidly," said Andi Gutmans, CEO and co-founder, Zend. "IBM
Power Systems and Linux, combined with Zend Server software and the
PHP language, will provide a new level of cloud economics for
clients by allowing them to automate application delivery to their
end users."
"With a higher number of threads per core, a significant clock
speed increase and a phenomenal offload capability via CAPI, IBM
POWER8 is a fantastic processor for Cognitive and Big Data
applications," said Amir Husain,
Founder & CEO, SparkCognition Incorporated. "We are using
POWER8-based systems to analyze large Cloud Security and Industrial
Internet data sets, build automated Cognitive computing models,
find threats and automatically research potential vulnerabilities
via Natural Language Processing and other Machine Learning
techniques."
"Businesses are looking for the latest open server innovations
to help them capitalize on Big Data and cloud computing. They want
new technologies that can achieve this faster and more
cost-effectively than the racks upon racks of commodity servers
heating up their data centers today," said Doug Balog, General Manager of IBM Power
Systems. "IBM's Power System technologies and Linux can meet these
needs and provide innovators with an advanced architecture to
create new kinds of software applications to help clients gain a
competitive advantage."
Open Server Innovation
IBM Power Systems offer the first open server platform for
enterprise computing.1 POWER's open architecture and
Linux are at the core of the OpenPOWER Foundation, an open
development community formed in 2013 that now includes 53 members
worldwide collaborating to leverage the POWER processor's open
architecture for broad industry innovation. The members of the
OpenPOWER Foundation are collaborating to help meet the evolving
needs of business by:
- Opening the POWER architecture to give the industry the ability
to innovate across the full Hardware and Software stack.
- Driving an expansion of enterprise class Hardware and Software
stack for the data center.
- Building a complete ecosystem to provide customers with the
flexibility to build servers best suited to the POWER
architecture.
For more information about Linux on IBM Power Systems visit
http://www.ibm.com/systems/power/software/linux/
For more information about IBM Power Systems Linux Centers and
locations visit
http://www.ibm.com/systems/power/software/linux/centers/.
For more information on IBM Innovation Centers visit
https://ibm.biz/IIClocations.
For more information on the OpenPOWER Foundation visit
http://www.openpowerfoundation.org.
1 By "first open server platform", this means that
the IBM POWER server is the first server that has made its systems,
processor, and chip design and architecture fully available to an
open development alliance for comprehensive licensing and
collaborative design allowing third parties to co-innovate.
Contacts:
Kristin Bryson
1-203-241-9190
kabryson@us.ibm.com
Ciri Haugh
972-345-4626
cehaugh@us.ibm.com
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