While strategically organized; it is awesome to see that, IBM and others majors tech companies are aggressively embracing, implementing and featuring open-architecture, open models including OpenStack, Hadoop, Linux, Open-Source software, OpenPOWER and more.
With this approach, these
companies spur the growth in their business, and inter alia enable you to
leverage new workloads, performance, agility, knowhow, and skills to name a
few.
According to IDC, IBM achieved
revenue growth for its z Systems along with strong growth for Linux on IBM
Power Systems year-over-year in 4Q15.
For those who are unfamiliar, the
next-generation z13 mainframe, optimized for hybrid cloud environments.
LinuxONE is based on the latest generation of z Systems technology and enables
popular open-source tools and software on the mainframe. The LinuxONE Community Cloud gives developers, students and system
administrators access to a virtual LinuxONE system in the cloud to build and
test their applications.
According to IBM, the strong
growth in Linux running on Power Systems is due in large part to optimized
solutions such as DB2 BLU, SAP HANA, and other industry big data software,
built on Power Systems running Linux.