IBM engineer Stefanie Chiras holds a Power9 chip above an AC922 server in Austin
IBM s Arranged Marriage Between OpenShift and Power Aims at Hybrid Cloud Crown Its new Power-based hardware appliance for IBM cloud on premises ships with Red Hat s container orchestration platform. Power Systems and IaaS now feature expanded OpenShift support.
Big Blue these days often looks like a Red Hat vendor. Which is not surprising, given that it spent $32 billion to get to look that way.
IBM recently doubled down on its big bet on Red Hat s hybrid cloud moxie by announcing that it s shedding itself of all its businesses that aren t hybrid cloud-related. Sharing the limelight was IBM s homegrown Power architecture, which the company would like to entice Red Hat OpenShift users to purchase.