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Re:Tech companies can now bid on the Pentagon’s $10B cloud c... by kirbypineapple on Saturday July 28, 2018 @06:13PM (#17635342)
It's unfortunate (and likely economically sensible) that most cloud providers dont offer Power hardware. Running Oracle on Power systems is probably the only reason anyone still runs AIX these days, nd many orgs haven't gone to the cloud because of huge Power/AIX footprints. Even without a ULA in play, licensing on Power systems is significantly more attractive than running on Intel when it comes to Oracle.
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Re:Tech companies can now bid on the Pentagon’s $10B cloud c... by mr_toad on Saturday July 28, 2018 @10:13PM (#17636132)
Is the software to create a public cloud on Power chips a thing? Can Xen run on power? Or OpenStack?
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Re:Tech companies can now bid on the Pentagon’s $10B cloud c... by microcolonel on Sunday July 29, 2018 @08:03PM (#17641142)
I know OpenStack/KVM is up and running on Power, not sure about Xen.
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