ARMONK, N.Y., March 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE:
IBM) today announced that SoftLayer will offer OpenPOWER-based
servers as part of its portfolio of cloud-based services.
With the new offering, clients will be able to select
OpenPOWER-based "bare metal" servers when configuring their
cloud-based IT infrastructure from SoftLayer, an IBM company.
Leveraging the OpenPOWER Foundation design concept, the servers
were developed to help clients better manage data-intensive
workloads on public and private clouds.
Increasingly cloud technologies, both private and public, are
enabling organizations to extend existing infrastructure,
inexpensively and quickly. Servers built on the OpenPOWER
architecture are designed to facilitate that transformation.
"The new OpenPOWER-based bare metal servers makes it easy for
users to take advantage of one of the industry's most powerful and
open server architectures," said Sonny
Fulkerson, CIO at SoftLayer. "The offering allows SoftLayer
to deliver a higher level of performance, predictability and
dependability not always possible in virtualized cloud
environments."
OpenPOWER-based servers leverage IBM's licensable POWER
processor technology and feature innovations resulting from open
collaboration among OpenPOWER Foundation members, which now total
more than 100 technology leaders worldwide.
To develop the SoftLayer bare-metal server, IBM and SoftLayer
worked closely with fellow OpenPOWER Foundation members TYAN, a
provider of advanced server/workstation platforms, and Mellanox
Technologies, a leading supplier of InfiniBand and Ethernet
solutions.
Due in the second quarter, the SoftLayer bare metal servers run
Linux applications and are based on the IBM POWER8 architecture,
the processor technology at the heart of IBM's Power Systems line
of servers.
The offering will also leverage the rapidly expanding community
of developers contributing to the POWER ecosystem as well as
independent software vendors that support Linux on Power
application development who are migrating applications from x86 to
POWER-based architecture.
Built on open technology standards that begin at the chip level,
the new bare metal servers are built to assist a wide range of
businesses interested in building custom hybrid, private and public
cloud solutions based on open technology.
The new OpenPOWER bare metal servers will join SoftLayer's
growing stable of POWER-based systems. The company first deployed
Power Systems in 2014 to support the IBM Watson cloud portfolio.
Initially, the new servers will be available in SoftLayer's
Dallas cloud center, with planned
expansion throughout the world.
Cost and configurations for SoftLayer's new OpenPOWER-based bare
metal servers will be made available in conjunction with general
availability.
For more information on IBM Cloud, go to www.ibm.com/cloud
For more information on OpenPOWER, go to
www.openpowerfoundation.org
Media Contacts:
Kristin Bryson
IBM Media Relations
203-241-9190
kabryson@us.ibm.com
Scott Cook
IBM Media Relations
312-669-4743
scotty@us.ibm.com
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