From InfoWorld: IBM is building slimmer versions of its Power hardware -- used by its Watson supercomputer -- to run complex database applications as well as simpler Web-based ones.
IBM has designed its latest Power servers for social networking, search engines and cloud storage, as computing moves from PCs to mobile devices. Beyond the cloud, the new servers with Power8 chips also have the horsepower to handle more complex applications like databases and analytics.
The multipurpose servers include the four-socket Power E850, which can handle private, public and hybrid clouds, and in-memory database applications. The more powerful Power E880 is for large-scale database and cloud implementations.
Companies like Facebook, Google, and Amazon are building mega data centers with inexpensive cloud servers based on x86 chips from Intel. But those servers typically get busy during peak hours when cloud services are in demand, and IBM wants to provide more flexibility in its Power servers so they remain busy even during non-peak hours. IBM is guaranteeing 70 percent utilization of the Power E850 server.
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