IBM PowerKVM Provides Open Virtualization Choice for Power Scale-Out Linux Systems

IBM PowerKVM is now generally available, providing an open virtualization choice for IBM scale-out Linux systems based on the POWER8 technology. The solution includes the Linux open source technology of Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM) virtualization, and is designed to complement the performance, scalability and security qualities of Linux. This provides an open extendable solution for running VMs on Linux scale-out servers that enables cloud deployments, scale-out processing, and big data solutions reducing complexity and cost.

The solution enables customers to exploit the performance, scalability and security built into Linux and the KVM hypervisor, and avoid high cost proprietary x86 virtualization. In addition, IBM PowerKVM allows organizations to leverage their traditional Linux admin skills on Power Systems while exploiting new advanced POWER8 processor features.

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