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IBM Europe, Middle East, and Africa Hardware
Announcement ZG14-0098
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IBM intends to continue working with SUSE to support the Power S822, Power S814,
Power S824, Power S822L, and Power S812L servers with an upcoming SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server V12 release. For additional questions about the availability of this
release and supported Power servers, consult
https://www.suse.com/
Enterprise Power :
IBM plans to bring POWER8 capability to the full Power Systems portfolio, with
the intent to deliver the most scalable, highest performing enterprise-class Power
System with an advanced version of the POWER8 processor. These enterprise
systems are designed to deliver the industry's best per-core performance and
will support AIX, Linux and IBM i applications, concurrently. The new system
architecture incorporates the resiliency characteristics of IBM's Power 795 with
the intent to drive substantial improvements in energy efficiency and floor space
utilization for mid-sized and large enterprises. These systems will use IBM's modular
design to enable clients to leverage the innovations in POWER8 processor technology
and the latest advancements in enterprise-class systems and Capacity on Demand,
to help enable growth seamlessly and affordably.
IBM also plans to provide upgrade paths from the current POWER7+ Power 770 and
780 servers to enterprise-class POWER8 processor-based servers. It is intended that
clients with multiple systems can leverage PowerVM Live Partition Mobility to help
maintain application availability during the upgrade process.
IBM plans to preserve client investment in Power Systems by enabling POWER8
processor-based Power Systems to interoperate and share Mobile Capacity on
Demand (COD) resources with POWER7 and POWER7+ processor-based Power
Systems servers in a single Power Enterprise Pool, at no additional charge. IBM also
plans to offer clients an option to permanently transfer their Mobile CoD processor
and memory activation features from a Power 770, 780 or 795 to a designated
POWER8 processor-based Power System within the same Power Enterprise Pool.
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