IBM introduces LinuxONE system: A new Linux-only mainframe server

The new processor is drove by multiple machines named LinuxThe one which claim to be the “world’s most developed Linux system” and also have the most rapidly model within it sector with a objective to control the most recent use overall economy and gmo billow time.

UbuntuOne continues IBM’s pioneering work on virtualisation on mainframes, and the firm has partnered with Suse to provide support for the new platform’s KVM hypervisor service. The LinuxONE Emperor is a high-end system based on the z13 hardware introduced earlier this year, while the LinuxONE Rockhopper is described as an entry-level system and is based on the slightly older zBC12 hardware.

Sources indicate that the Emperor can call to 8000 virtual machines, which would be the largest ever system of its size.

In what has become a common move for the company, it will be working with the open source community to offer tools such as Docker, MongoDB, Chef and others. As part of the Linux Foundation’s “Open Mainframe Project” it has contributed some 500,000 lines of code including code related to IT predictive analytics that are on the look out for unusual system behaviour to stop issues becoming failures. “In all cases, they work seamlessly on the mainframe, with no need for special skills, so they can be used by application developers just as they would on other platforms”, said Kathryn Guarini, vice president of z Systems Growth Initiatives at IBM.

UK-based Canonical will distribute its Ubuntu open source software onto the LinuxONE and z systems. For these 2 mainframe servers, IBM has said that it is spending hundreds of millions to develop.