IBM promotes Linux in the corporate segment

At the Red Hat Summit conference in Boston, IBM announced a number of new initiatives to support and accelerate the introduction of Linux in the corporate segment. This is the opening of two new innovation centers of the Power Systems Linux Center in Austin (Texas) and New York and, most importantly, the porting of the KVM hypervisor to the Power Systems servers.

Innovation Centers Power Systems Linux Center opens in areas where companies have the greatest demand for enterprise Linux solutions. These centers provide training for developers on how to port their applications to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on the Power Systems server.


^{The first innovation center of Power Systems Linux Center opened on May 14, 2013 in Beijing.}
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It also employs experienced experts who help developers understand the specific features of IBM POWER7 + processors.

KVM support

IBM intends to deliver KVM to all of its Linux Power Systems servers. This hypervisor, integrated into the Linux kernel, provides hardware virtualization for Linux processes. IBM has long supported KVM on its x86 servers and plans to port the hypervisor to Power Systems servers next year. As a result, users will have new options for installing a larger range of Linux-based applications.

IBM has been involved in various Open Source projects since 1999, today it contributes to Open Stack , Open Daylight , Apache and Eclipse, as well as to the Linux kernel. Hundreds of IBM developers are constantly sending code to Open Source projects, including a team of several dozen experts in China working on KVM. In November 2012, the KVM Center was opened in Beijing, together with our friends from Red Hat and SUSE.