IDG Contributor Network: LinuxONE gets flexible pricing and enhanced support for hybrid cloud environments

IBM announced the LinuxONE systems at LinuxCon Seattle last year. The LinuxONE family is comprised of two Linux powered mainframe computers: LinuxONE Emperor and LinuxONE Rockhopper. Emperor is a super expensive monster of a machine that is capable of scaling up to 8,000 virtual machines or thousands of containers, currently the most of any single Linux system. LinuxONE Rockhopper is an entry-level system targeted at clients and emerging markets that want mainframe capabilities.
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