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.