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Im thinking maybe as a compliment to x86 offerings and eventual displacement as a primary offering , i do not see them ditching POWER. The architecture might b
by rzerowan 6mo ago
Im thinking maybe as a compliment to x86 offerings and eventual displacement as a primary offering , i do not see them ditching POWER.
The architecture might be non-standard and not very widespread however for what it does and workloads that are suited to it. I dont think any ARM design comes close , maybe Fujitsu's A64FX.
- silvestrov 6mo agoMarketingwise I think it is difficult for IBM to sell x86 systems as it is too easy for customers to compare performance to a standard Wintel server. Sun had the same problem after 2001 dotcom when standard PC servers became reliable enough to run web servers on. It's easier to sell "our special sauce" when building using a custom ARM platform. Then you have no easy comparison with standard servers.
- ghaff 6mo agoIBM sold off XSeries, x86, to Lenovo years ago along with spinning off various other things that they considered commodity.
- rzerowan 6mo agoYep i think thats why even POWER isnt sold standalone but as part of the Z/i series packages as a unit. They will probably market the ARM inclusion similarly - as something that the package provides. As far as POWER i think only Raptor[1] does direct marketingof the power(hehe) and capabilities [1]https://www.raptorcs.com/ https://www.raptorcs.com/
- shrimppersimmon 6mo agoPOWER is sold standalone, it's not packaged with Z. https://www.ibm.com/products/power https://www.ibm.com/products/power The i systems are just POWER machines with different firmware.
- jhickok 6mo agoIBM sells hyperconverged AIO OpenShift on Dell & Lenovo hardware now: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/fusion-hci-systems/2.12.x?topic=overview-hardware https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/fusion-hci-systems/2.12.x?topic=...