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which is why they're not being sold directly to enterprises but to Cloud Providers. I'm not a hardware engineer so not familiar with the fine print but what I'v

by pm90 9y ago

which is why they're not being sold directly to enterprises but to Cloud Providers. I'm not a hardware engineer so not familiar with the fine print but what I've read so far seems to suggest that Power systems are more efficient at running Database-centric workloads and the power hypervisor is an order of magnitude more efficient than intel ones http://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Intel-x86-and-IBM-POWER-CPUs-Which-When-Why http://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Intel-x86-and-IBM-POWE.... Disclosure: I work on IBM cloud, but only tangentially with the Power systems.

hsivonen 9y ago
Is there a cloud provider that allows a EU-based natural-person customer buy a little Power 9 time for testing? Last I looked, Power cloud offerings required the customer to be a big company that buys a lot of compute.
- greglindahl 9y ago
  I think IBM Softlayer has been renting out small numbers of Power-based machines for a while now, enough to test with.
  - pm90 9y ago
    Correct! They rent out POWER8 systems: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/bare-metal-servers/power https://www.ibm.com/cloud/bare-metal-servers/power. POWER9 systems don't seem to be available (yet). As for the future, I can't say much publicly (le sigh) but let me just say that personally I think future of power is bright, especially with cloud providers.