IBM's new LinuxOne servers can scale to 8000 VMs

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IBM's new LinuxOne servers can scale to 8000 VMs

IBM has launched Linux-only mainframe servers, called LinuxOne.

The servers include LinuxOne Emperor for large enterprises and Rockhopper for mid-size businesses.

IBM said LinuxOne Emperor can scale up to 8,000 virtual machines or thousands of containers, which would be the most for any single Linux system.

The LinuxOne Empire system will be based on IBM's z13 mainframe computer, which had been designed for high-volume mobile transactions.

IBM said the LinuxOne system will work with open software such as Apache Spark, Maria, Posture and Chef.

The z13 mainframe was released in January, with IBM billing it as the "most powerful and secure system ever built".

The company also said it partnered with UK-based Canonical Ltd to distribute its Ubuntu open source software on LinuxOne and Z Systems.

Reporting by Kshitiz Goliya in Bengaluru.

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