IBM PowerLinux Open Source Infrastructure Services

Reduce acquisition costs – deploying open source infrastructure on the PowerLinux platform combines competitively priced POWER servers and PowerVM virtualization with open source applications. Learn more at http://www.ibm.com/systems/power/software/linux/powerlinux/opensource.html

Organizations are transforming their IT infrastructures to Linux and open source applications to manage their business. By 2016, it is estimated that open source software will be included in mission-critical software portfolios in 99 percent of Global 2000 enterprises.

IBM PowerLinux™ Open Source Infrastructure Services is an ideal platform for fast delivery of essential email, web serving, file/print, and other infrastructure workloads. It provides all the components—key open source infrastructure workloads, Industry standards-based Linux, IBM PowerVM virtualization technology, and IBM POWER7 performance optimized for Linux in an end-to-end solution ready for you to deploy. IBM PowerLinux Open Source Infrastructure Services uses open source applications such as:

Mail serving: Includes industry-leading open source mail serving applications such as Postfix, Dovecot, Cyrus, Fetchmail, Procmail and SpamAssassin.

Web serving: Leverages the LAMP architecture for open source web serving functions with Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP/Perl scripts

File/print serving: Using Samba this solution allows file and print sharing between computers based on PowerLinux, Linux x86, Microsoft Windows and UNIX operating systems.

Network infrastructure serving: Manages network traffic with advanced capabilities like virtual networking (virtio and vhost-net), next generation internet protocol, IPv6, and load-balancing with the BIND DNS server and Squid web caching server.