Cloud Computing: IBM to Support Linux KVM Virtualization on Power Systems
June 14, 2013
Grazed from eWeek. Author: Jeffrey Burt.
IBM officials are looking to accelerate the adoption of Linux in the data center and are taking a number of new steps to push along the effort. At the Red Hat Summit in Boston, IBM officials said the company will support the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) virtualization hypervisor technology in the Power servers that run Linux. In addition, IBM in July will open two Power Systems Linux Centers in the United States, which will help software developers to more easily build applications that leverage Linux and IBM’s Power 7+ chip technology.
The new KVM support and the new Linux centers, announced June 11, are the latest steps by IBM officials to enhance the use of Linux on their Power systems. Big Blue’s efforts in this area date back more than 10 years, when officials started pushing their Linux-on-Power initiative…
IBM is increasing its support of KVM, which officials said offers an optimized virtualization technology for Linux workloads. Until now, the giant tech vendor has supported KVM on its x86-based System x servers. Now that support will expand to the Linux-only Power systems, giving organizations a greater choice when considering Linux-based servers to handle such new workloads as big data and cloud computing, as well as mobile and social computing…
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