Red Hat Is The Gatekeeper For ARM In The Datacenter
If any new hardware technology is going to get traction in the datacenter, it has to have the software behind it. And as the dominant supplier of commercial Linux, Red Hat’s support of ARM-based servers gives the upstart chip makers like Applied Micro, Cavium, and Qualcomm the leverage to help pry the glasshouse doors open and get a slice of the server and storage business that is so utterly dominated by Intel’s Xeon processors today.
It is now or never for ARM in the datacenter, and that means Red Hat has to go all the way and not just support …
Red Hat Is The Gatekeeper For ARM In The Datacenter was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.