IBM launches Linux-only mainframe system LinuxONE
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Published Aug 17, 2015 06:56AM ET
IBM launches Linux-only mainframe system LinuxONE
(Reuters) - International Business Machines (NYSE:IBM) Corp said on Monday it launched Linux-only mainframe servers called LinuxONE.
The severs include LinuxONE Emperor for large enterprises and Rockhopper for mid-size businesses.
IBM said LinuxONE Emperor can scale up to 8,000 virtual machines or thousands of containers, which would be the most for any single Linux system.
The Linux One Emperor system will be based on IBM's z13 mainframe computer, which had been designed for high-volume mobile transactions.
IBM said the LinuxOne system will work with open software such as Apache (NYSE:APA) Spark, MariaDB, PostgreSQL and Chef.
The company also said it partnered with UK-based Canonical Ltd to distribute its Ubuntu open source software on LinuxONE and z systems.
(The story was refiled to correct the name of the server to "Emperor" from "Empire" in paragraph 4 and names of software to "MariaDB" and "PostgreSQL" from "Maria" and "Posture" in paragraph 5)
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