Taking “Green” Beyond the Hardware

A presentation at IBM Go Green in March 2009 in Raleigh, NC, USA by Shawn Wells

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Agenda & Introduction ● IBM / Red Hat Relationship ● Customer Story: The Bank of New Zealand ● Educating the Next Generation (zNexGen)

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Red Hat / IBM Relationship ● ● ● Cross platform relationship founded in the late 90s (when Red Hat incorporated) Started releasing RHEL for System z in 2001 Formal Linux on System z agreement & announcement in 2007 (http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/21513.wss) ● Red Hat has dedicated staff to System z (we haven’t done this for any other H/W platform)

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Red Hat / IBM Relationship ● Global Linux Technology Centers – Development centers located around the world – Focus on all platforms (System z, xSeries, pSeries, etc) – Red Hat & IBM the #1 and #2 commercial contributors to Linux code

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‘Go Green’ Enablement IBM xSeries (x3350) and Red Hat http://www.networkworld.com/research/2008/060908-green-windows-linux.html?page=1

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‘Go Green’ Enablement SYSCON showed Red Hat uses less power at idle (http://virtualization.sys-con.com/node/808417)

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Customer Story: The Bank of New Zealand

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Partner Enablement Integrating Red Hat & IBM Technology Into Partner Solutions

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Educating the Next Generation (zNexGen)

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Red Hat & IBM Academics Destination z & IBM Academic Programs – Joined Destination z (forum of System z business partners) – Free RHEL to IBM Academic Partners ● ● ● ● Marist College Binghamton NCCU San Diego State

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Questions?