Cloud Computing: IBM and Microsoft try to show they can build on — and surpass — their legacies
April 27, 2014
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.
Last week, IBM and Microsoft put themselves front and center to prove that they can both capitalize on their tech legacy while pushing beyond it in the era of web-scale cloud. On Wednesday, IBM showed some progress on its plan to reinvigorate its Power chip architecture. The company showed off a Tyan-built white box server running firmware and an OS by foundation partners IBM, Google, and Canonical.
Google’s participation was the highlight when IBM announced the foundation in August– its presence gives IBM’s Power architecture some web-scale credibility although, as far as I can tell Google has not committed to actually using Power-based servers…
If it should do so that would be huge but, as analyst Patrick Moorhead of Moor Insights and Strategy pointed out in a paper — IBM has had a hard time translating “supposed speeds-and-feeds advantage into additional market share in the vital Linux internet-scale market.”…
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