IBM and SUSE collaborate to enable you to order SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 for POWER directly from IBM. SLES 12 ushers in a new era on IBM POWER8 technology with a release of SLES which runs exclusively in little endian mode on the POWER8 architecture. This helps accelerate innovation and expand the Power Systems ecosystem by removing a portability barrier for software application vendors. SLES is a proven enterprise Linux distribution which now uses the POWER8 scale-out family of Linux-only servers with PowerKVM open virtualization. These technologies help maximize system resources and deliver the quality of service you expect as a Power Systems client.

With the SLES socket-based offering structure, you can deploy virtual and cloud environments without license restrictions on the number of guest instances to help maximize server usage.

For the latest details about SLES 12, visit http://www.suse.com.

For details on IBM PowerKVM, refer to Software Announcement 214-126, dated April 28, 2014.

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