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Well, how would you define commodity?

Our new "LC" range combines the performance of #POWER8 with the "commodity" components to keep costs low. Commodity memory and disk, high performance #POWER8

Check out the OpenPOWER servers and Scale Out Power Servers - they excel in the data center and the compute price is much lower than x86

Major players, like Google, see the benefit of performance and openness, having ported the majority of their software stack to POWER to avoid dependence on commodity Intel, which was no longer delivering all they needed.

I'd contest this point - if a commodity approach is preferred, one way IBM address this is with the Power8 LC Linux servers - fast to price in stock and can be ordered online - and > bang for buck versus x86+Linux - if you want to go that way - you can

good enough for Google...

Thanks Ben! Quite right! The open cooperation with OpenPOWER is making big waves!

#Innovation and the data centre http://openpowerfoun...

#Innovation Google and #OpenPOWER processors for the the data centre http://www.electroni...

Full Public Cloud is a great answer for Development, with great flexibility

Combine the flexibility of cloud offerings like @IBMBluemix with tried and tested #PowerSystems https://ibm.biz/Bd4Q...

Change what you need to, with #agile development, while avoiding risk of change and keeping control of critical #infrastructure

Create your own Internal Cloud Service Provider, with #PowerVC, built on @OpenStack with additional IBM features https://ibm.biz/Bd4Q...

Connect existing Systems of Record with off-premise offerings like @IBMBluemix, using #APIs with control https://ibm.biz/Bd4Q...

Allow flex into hyperscale offerings, with independence of processor architecture with #Linux https://ibm.biz/Bd4Q...

Google found the porting easy, with majority of infrastructure ported to POWER, giving them options https://ibm.biz/Bd4Q...

Off-premise #POWER8 is available through @SoftLayer and others like @Vissensa, @OVH and more

On-premise #PowerSystems continue to deliver excellent Reliability, Availability and Serviceability, from POWER7 https://ibm.biz/Bd4Q...

And then including all that and adding to it with #POWER8 focus on minimising planned and unplanned downtime ibm.biz/Bd4Q8Y

wow. thank you :)

I'd suggest that comms costs can become a factor-especially if considering pumping the volumes of data (that can be captured)from on premises to a cloud environment for exploitation. Not just bandwidth and costs but the introduction of latency in insights

#POWER8 and #OpenPOWER deliver Flexibility & Performance through #Innovation - using capabilities like #FPGA's #CAPI building out every element of the server architecture! Look at the innovation from the OpenPOWER foundation.

As mentioned at the OpenPOWER Summit, POWER9 is the direction for us, Google and others! https://ibm.biz/Bd4Q...

IBM's OpenPower foundation has attracted the largest technology partners to collaborate for innovation including opensource software

Then, beyond that, there is Graphene and Carbin Nanotubes! https://www.ibm.com/...

#Hexscore are talking to clients about using the #PowerSystems + #machinelearning combination in other areas such as commercial building insurance

We find more clients want to start getting value from all the real time data they're collecting. #Hexscore lets them to do this

• What difference would it make to you if could get accurate insights faster? Try #PowerSystems to find out the answer!

Better pricing and it allsow for better decisions by the insurer and the customer

Do intel say that?

IBM #PowerSystems continue to deliver greater performance, at the thread and core level, which lowers costs

Intel has a different strategy, delivering more performance at the socket, but not at the core or thread. >TCO! https://ibm.biz/Bd4Q...

Because #PowerSystems focuses on servers, not mobiles, we need fewer servers and cores, which lowers software and hardware costs.

When building models, use #LEGO. When building IT Solutions, use #PowerSystems. LEGO comparison here: https://ibm.biz/Bd4Q...

Also, the openness of @OpenPOWER is popular compared to the published Intel strategy of closed consolidation to the chip

@Spodeyzz according to forrester report they do

Fire the link over, I'd like to read the context :)

@Spodeyzz http://ibm.biz/Bd4QE...

Cheers!

@D_Spurway I will have a look at your lego comparison after this

Related question - is there actually an end point or does it continue to evolve?

There are many ways to handle big data and we haven't come across anything we could not deal with

When clients come into the Lab, they bring with them millions of data items, sometimes even more! #BigDataFigData

BD can get out of control, be selective in what u store i have seen customers with a good data strategy deploy BD projects successfully

P8 has 8 highways for data vs x86 which has 2, accessing data quick and getting insight is as importnt as having data in the 1st place

@DavidMaddison3 - and that's per processor core as well...

For real #BigData, IBM Data Engine for Analytics, combining servers, software and more for ultimate solution https://ibm.biz/Bd4Q...

• IBM #PowerSystems have always been designed with #security in mind, whether from the hardware layer https://ibm.biz/Bd4Q...

IBM has excellent #security specialists, in the @ibmxforce, who know the current threats facing our customers: https://ibm.biz/Bd4Q...

As mentioned, #PowerSystems are designed to address those threats.

Through the #PowerVM #virtualisation level, that so effectively provides workload isolation https://ibm.biz/Bd4Q...

Then to the OS options: #AIX, used by so many of our customers for the solutions for their enterprises https://ibm.biz/Bd4Q...

And/or #IBMi, designed for #business with security as a key result of the #integration the "i" represents https://ibm.biz/Bd4Q...

Also #Linux, with the different model that #opensource development provides, giving speed and flexibility https://ibm.biz/Bd4Q...

All can be further secured with #PowerSC, ensuring log files can't be altered and more http://ibm.biz/Bd4Qp...

Only the Mainframe is more secure, meaning IBM #PowerSystems remain the best place to keep your critical data