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Linux on Power Systems including System p and System i

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As more and more companies today move business critical solutions to the Linux® operating system to reduce costs and increase flexibility, the challenge becomes how to gain these advantages and continue the same quality of service achieved with a proprietary UNIX® operating system. Linux on POWER™ servers provide the solution to this challenge by enabling the self-healing and self-managing capabilities of the IBM POWER5+™ and POWER6™ architecture in Linux. No longer do you have to choose between Linux and the quality of service that you and your customers have grown to expect from UNIX operating system-based servers. Read more.

New x86 Linux application virtualization for Linux on POWER servers helps you consolidate more workloads

PowerVM™ Lx86 is a new innovative feature of all PowerVM Editions designed to enable you to easily install and run a wide range of x86 Linux applications on System p™ and BladeCenter® platforms with a Linux on POWER operating system. The PowerVM Lx86 feature allows applications to take advantage of award-winning virtualization with PowerVM Editions*, leadership performance**, and superb RAS features of Linux on POWER servers. PowerVM virtualization with the PowerVM Lx86 feature enables clients to consolidate x86 Linux applications along with applications written to IBM Power Architecture™ servers running on the Linux and AIX® operating systems. This feature helps make available more workloads for consolidation, providing the potential for increasing the power, cooling and space savings from consolidating x86 server footprints onto System p and BladeCenter platforms. (See application qualifications.)

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Press release – IBM opens System p servers to thousands of x86 Linux applications