IBM Power Architecture Gets a New Friend in Rackspace
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http://www.serverwatch.com/server-news/rackspace-embraces-openpower.html
Good to see some of the RISC systems getting some love these days. Power and Sparc still have a lot of market relevance.
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Does this mean that Rackspace will be offering Power systems in their racks?
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That would be pretty cool. But only so cool, I can get a Power server and rack it in a colo today. What would be amazing is if this became part of their cloud offering.
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There are lots of vendors out there that will slice you a partition on a larger iSeries or even give you a blade and shared storage, even IBM will do it. It was one of my DR solutions for my last job, ship tapes to Rochester and load a slice up.
For xSeries, don't know. AIX is also a different beast and doesn't do the same thing that OS/400 does for partitioning.