Big Data is a big deal for IBM, and Wednesday Big Blue announced new Power Systems servers to handle the load. The new products are built on an open server platform, based on the Power8 processor.
The company’s new machines are the culmination of a $2.4 billion investment, more than 3 years of development and the exploitation of hundreds of IBM patents. New Power8 processor measures one square inch, houses more than four billion transistors and uses over 11 miles of high-speed copper wiring.
Tom Rosamilia, senior vice president of the IBM Systems and Technology Group, stated that the new product line is “the first truly disruptive advancement in high-end server technology in decades, with radical technology changes and the full support of an open server ecosystem [designed for] massive data volumes and complexity.”