| Title: | Why Consolidate Linux On IBM System P? |
| Price: | $500.00 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 25, 2008 |
| Source: | Forrester Research |
| Author: | Brad Day |
| Report Type: | Question & Answer |
| Word Count: | 2422 |
| Length: | 5 Pages |
| Description: | With the evolution of IBM's Power Systems server (formerly known as System p), the core differentiation of its feature/functionality has first and foremost centered on its sustained advantage in scaleable availability and scaleable performance versus both distributed x86 and other RISC and Itanium 2 competitors. However, System p can really no longer be called a Unix/RISC enterprise computing platform. IBM has now converged the System p and System i technologies into a single Power Systems Group, and its re-branded PowerVM technology is taking center stage as the scaleable virtualization platform for your mission-critical Unix, Linux, and i5/OS applications. Using System p for running Linux workloads pulls on three core drivers: 1) Linux's ability to take advantage of the POWER6-based overall performance scalability; 2) its extreme reliability and availability features; and, most importantly, 3) System p's ability to benefit from PowerVM's affinity for consolidating and optimizing Linux workloads. |
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