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IBM Power Systems GM: Big scale and big data demand OpenPower
IBM’s Power Systems division – which sells servers and systems based on the Power system architecture, as opposed to the Intel-based x86 architecture used in most personal computers – had been in free-fall for some time, posting year-on-year revenue declines of up to 37% per quarter over the past couple of years. According to the conventional wisdom, Power was another victim – along with SPARC and, to a lesser extent, ARM – of the inexorable march of the commodity x86 server.+ ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD: Red Hat makes its case to be THE container company + IBM, Box partner on cloud analytics technologies +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here