A lot of those workloads run on IBM Power Systems with their Power processors and until now, IBM was essentially the only vendor that offered cloud-based Power systems.
Now, however, Google is also getting into this game by partnering with IBM to launch IBM Power Systems on Google Cloud.
Power Systems on Google Cloud is obviously integrated with Google’s services and billing tools.
Since IBM has its own cloud offering, it’s a bit odd to see it work with Google to bring its servers to a competing cloud — though it surely wants to sell more Power servers.
The move makes perfect sense for Google Cloud, though, which is on a mission to bring more enterprise workloads to its platform. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1578945609.9684389/Google-brings-IBM-Power-Systems-to-its-cloud-–-TechCrunch?ref=audio_experience