Open Source on LinuxONE Servers

Why LinuxONE for open source?

Open source software has expanded from a low-cost alternative to a platform for enterprise databases,
clouds and next-generation apps. LinuxONE was built for open source so you can harness the agility of
the open revolution on the industry’s security-rich, scalable and high-performing Linux server.

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"The results of up to 2x the throughput performance far exceeds our goal."

- Simon Riggs, CTO and founder, 2ndQuadrant

"Ubuntu 16.04 on IBM LinuxONE – an entirely new and extraordinary class of cloud."

- Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical Founder

“There is clear customer demand for Docker solutions on IBM's highly scalable servers.”

— Roger Egan, SVP Sales, Docker

Featured open source software that runs better on LinuxONE

Analytics and cognitive

Apache Spark, Elasticsearch, and TensorFlow

Blockchain

Hyperledger Fabric

Databases

MariaDB, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL

Languages

Go, PHP, Python, Ruby and Swift

Linux distributions

Red Hat, SUSE, and Ubuntu

Management

Chef, Juju, OpenStack, and Puppet

Runtimes

node.JS, Apache Tomcat, and OpenJDK

Virtualization and containers

Docker, Kubernetes, and KVM

Meet the LinuxONE family

IBM Emperor II

This top-of-the-line Linux system is engineered to help you deliver premium database and cloud services with pervasive encryption, lightning speed, and massive scalability.

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Rockhopper II

The newest Linux server in the LinuxONE family offers similar advanced capabilities to the Emperor II – and is sized to fit any data center, from a cloud service provider to an established bank.

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News

“With today’s announcement of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS running on IBM LinuxONE and IBM Z with pervasive encryption, customers and service providers will be able to scale-up their containerized applications, manage them more easily with Kubernetes, and better protect them from external and internal attacks.”

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