OpenPOWER Get Cloud Vote of Confidence from Rackspace
December 18, 2014
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Michael Vizard.
The use of OpenPOWER systems in cloud computing environments got a major boost today via an announcement from Rackspace is joining the OpenPOWER Foundation. Aaron Sullivan, senior director and distinguished engineer, infrastructure strategy at Rackspace, said that after an extensive period of evaluation, Rackspace has determined that servers based on the Power processors originally developed by IBM will be deployed alongside x86 servers in its data centers.
Because of the ability to run more application workloads and virtual machines more efficiently by accessing more processing cores, Sullivan says that Rackspace will be deploying Power servers in support of variety of distributions of Linux…
While at one point Power processors were optimized primarily for database workloads, Sullivan said that IBM in cooperation with the rest of the OpenPower Foundation has greatly improved that ability to deploy Power servers alongside x86 servers using a common management framework…
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