IBM Extend Its Reach In The Datacenter Through Nutanix

IBM has been making a lot of noise in the datacenter recently. In December of 2017, the company's POWER9 platforms hit the market with a focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI). In March of this year, Rackspace and Google gave the first public peak at the Zaius and Barreleye 2 Open Compute platform at the Open Compute Summit. At last week's Red Hat summit, IBM and Red Hat announced a partnership to extend IBM Cloud to Red Hat's OpenShift Container Platform and Certified Containers. These are all significant, but perhaps the biggest bang of all was the recent announcement that IBM and Nutanix are partnering to deliver hyperconverged platforms based on IBM's POWER9 platform.