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> IBM is dead until it gets Z mainframes and Power servers in big a three data center (AWS, GCP, Azure). Google is using POWER9 servers in their data centers:
by wolfgke 7y ago
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IBM is dead until it gets Z mainframes and Power servers in big a three data center (AWS, GCP, Azure).
Google is using POWER9 servers in their data centers:
> https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmoorhead/2018/03/19/headed-into-its-fifth-year-openpower-has-momentum-into-the-power9-generation/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmoorhead/2018/03/19/head...
> https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/03/26/google-and-its-hyperscale-peers-add-power-to-the-server-fleet/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/03/26/google-and-its-hyper...
Of course, most of their servers are still x86; as far as I am aware, the reason why Google also uses POWER9 servers is that they don't want to be too dependent on the two manufacturers of x86 CPUs.