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IBM Power-based cloud instances available… from Google

January 27, 2020

IBM and Google may be competitors in the cloud platform business, but that doesn’t prevent them from working together. Google is partnering with IBM to offer “Power Systems as a service” on its Google Cloud platform.

IBM’s Power processor line is the last man standing in the RISC/Unix war, surviving Sun Microsystems’ SPARC and HP’s PA-RISC. Along with mainframes it’s the last server hardware business IBM has, having divested its x86 server line in 2014.

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