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Title - IBM Z and Linux - Updates and Strategy

Abstract - IBM Z and Linux have run mission critical workloads for over 20 years, yet is seeing new interest and growth. The LinuxONE server family brings security, privacy, scalability, and availability to Linux workloads. This session will provide an update on this platform and its role in the hybrid cloud.

Bio - DeWayne Hughes is an Executive Z Client Architect with over 30 years as an IBMer. He has worked across the Midwest with numerous customers and industries, today supporting large financial services clients. He has supported Linux on Z from the beginning and is enthusiastic about what LinuxONE provides to workloads and their consumers. He also has background with UNIX and x86 environments as a Systems Architect.

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IBM's LinuxOne 5th Anniv

The notes & URLs below will give a history where this talk MAY be going.

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Last Aug 17 was the 5th anniv of IBM starting LinuxOne. We'd hoped to have a talk and we're finally getting it.

It's a story of:
-private server hrdwr & "The Cloud",
-of making it an "Open Src ecosystem" ,
-a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.
-The Open Mainframe Project

with player such as:
-SUSE
-CA Technologies (now Broadcom)
-Canonical / Ubuntu

If your wondering what those terms mean & their interactions... come to the talk, but you can cheat and read-ahead (or BEHIND on the history) at

https://mainframedebate.com/2020/08/17/linuxone-is-5-years-old-today/

(Excerpts below.)

AUG 17, '20
On this day five years ago (i.e. 2015) IBM launched LinuxONE, a new family of mission-critical Linux-only servers. ... ... ...

Enterprise Linux

IBM has had a long-standing history of supporting the open-source community, including Linux. It was obvious in late 2014 that Linux had won the OS wars and had become the most pervasive OS, especially as the cloud evolved. ... A small team of us in late 2014 and early 2015 looked at how we could bring the best capabilities IBM had in the Systems portfolio. ...combine with Linux and the open-source ecosystem ... gain mass-market adoption.

... ... ...

The IBM team felt they needed to embrace the Open Source community and make LinuxONE more than just an IBM product push. So, in conjunction with the launch of LinuxONE, ... While there was a community around Linux on this chip architecture it was fragmented and disparate. Working collaboratively with the Linux Foundation and an early band of partners the community embarked on forming a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project. In a matter of weeks, this effort was bootstrapped, and the Open Mainframe Project was launched with 14 founding members including players such as SUSE & Broadcom. ... ... ... Mark Shuttleworth, of Canonical/Ubuntu ... ... ...

...especially the extreme security, and has built a robust portfolio of offerings as part of the IBM Cloud Hyper Protect Services. ...quickly spin up virtual servers, DBs, or crypto key mgnt services in the cloud that take advantage of this level of security.

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