IBM is investing in order to fund Linux application development programs for their Power mainframes and servers. IBM sees cloud technology as the foundation for new revenues and their five year investment plan is expected to generate $20 billion in new revenues. Their investment focuses on developing Linux and cloud technology so that users are more in control and are able to cut costs all across business instead of just in IT operations.
Already Started
IBM has already invested in adding Linux data centers in cities around the world including Montpellier, Beijing, New York and Austin, Texas. The client centers allow developers and other technical professionals to have access to Linus Power Systems technologies. There will also be access through the centers to IBM subject matter experts and to facilities that enable optimization of applications.There are Linux training workshops and customer briefings to help learn about using Power Systems to deploy Linux applications. Their facilities will be able to aid in the timely deployment of new applications to the market including those for big data, cloud, mobile and social business computing.
Flexible Server Infrastructure
IBM chose Linux as their operating system because they want to use what the company has already developed and bring in new capabilities. The investment will help to enable an easily scalable and flexible server infrastructure that is customizable and able to handle cloud and big data workloads. |
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They have already invested millions of dollars in Linux over the past decade because of what they consider to be its growth opportunity. Their new investment could possibly be applied to improve Linux on Power, develop hardware architecture, and to porting kernel-based virtual machine to Power. Any of the work that IBM does to increase the performance or scale of the Linux operating system is likely to benefit all Linux users.
Capitalizing on Big Data & Cloud Computing
With the money invested in Linux, IBM is hoping to help clients capitalize on big data and cloud computing with modern systems built to handle the new wave of applications coming to the data center. IBM will rapidly expand their ecosystem supporting Linux with new data centers and a Linux on Power development cloud.Their cloud service will increase its infrastructure to provide more businesses the ability to prototype, build, port and test Linux applications on the Power platform. IBM believes that the era of big data requires a new approach to IT systems that is more open and customizable.
Their past investments in Linux proved to create plenty of innovation and their new investments are expected to bring more development to Linux so that companies and developers can get the most out of it. IBM’s efforts to move cloud computing and big data forward are likely to cause many changes in the technology and they are heavily betting on opportunities in the cloud with their recent investments.
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Leo Hart is an expert in virtual machines and specializes in cloud hosting for Custom Cloud.
