Revolution in IT

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Announces an open ecosystem around POWER8 hardware with a working OpenPOWER Foundation of over 50 companies and IBM shipping Linux‑only scale‑out POWER servers with KVM and Linux distro support (SUSE, Red Hat, Canonical). Demonstrates moving MongoDB, WebSphere Liberty and Hadoop binaries to POWER in three minutes; claims 95% recompile‑test‑and‑go for compiled code (under 5% need endian fixes). Reports nearly 20% early adoption on launched SKUs, expands from 5 to 50+ porting centers, and publishes ~400,000 lines of firmware on GitHub.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:35Linux is Everywhere
3. 1:38The Model for Innovation
4. 4:22OpenPOWER: Collaborative Data Center Innovation
5. 5:45New IBM Power Systems Leverage An Open Server Ecosystem
6. 6:32Easy Porting to Linux on IBM Power Systems
7. 9:34Five IBM Power Linux Centers
8. 10:18Now 50+ IBM Centers Fuel Linux on Power
9. 10:57Expanding the Open Ecosystem
10. 12:26Infrastructure Matters Now More Than Ever
11. 14:36How IBM Systems and Linux Deliver Success
12. 17:14Revolutionize the Way IT is Created and Consumed

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