IBM LinuxONE Community Cloud is open

The Community Cloud announced at LinuxCon is accepting registrations and afterwards you deploy and start your Linux image. Please read the quickstart guide before get going - at least read if you get stuck :-)

If you don't do this, then at least read the invitation email. Here are the top hints:

• Access is given using a public key - generate it in the Web GUI and then select it for deployment. This is not selected by default and without that key you don't get into the new system! 
• When you deploy, select the new project assigned to you and not "public" which is the default. You can only work on your project area! 
• You can only have one Linux server there. So if you want to switch between images, you need to delete the old one first. 

There is also a FAQ available which covers general aspects of this.

Happy testing!

(updated 08/12/2015)

Linux on System z - Financial Trading demo from LinuxCon

Donna Dillenberger is showing a pure open source demo on the mainframe combining all the new technologies like Spark, MongoDB, Postgres, MariaDB, Node.js, Docker, Chef etc.
It's using live analytics for streams from Twitter and S&P financial data, showing the power of realtime analysis on the mainframe.
She is also providing a look at the infrastrucure driving this and even shows a fail over from one site to another using Hyperswap.
Towards the end she is providing real performance data for some of the components used.
During this presentation your probably want to pause and playback to get all the information she packed into those 18 minutes. Here is a breakdown (minutes:seconds) for reference:

• 0:00: demonstration
• 7:48: a look at the infrastructure
• 11:22: failover by killing one storage subsystem
• 13:45: performance data
• 17:00: agility & summary

(updated 8/19/2015)

LinuxCon announcements for Linux on z

Today IBM made some interesting announcements at LinuxCon. I'm going to cover more of the technical stuff in separate posts - this is for the overview.

• Announcement recording on Youtube  
• Open Source & ISV Ecosystem Enablement for LinuxONE and IBM z presentation with quite interesting performance results
• IBM press release
• Ubuntu is coming for the mainframe (Mark Shuttleworth joined Ross Mauri on stage today for this announcement)
• KVM for IBM z Systems
• Linux Foundations announces Open Mainframe Project 
• A cloud for ISVs to test their applications called Linux Test Drive Program
• A community cloud hosted at Marist and Syracuse university
• White paper Delivering Business Agility with Open Source Solutions on IBM LinuxONE and z Systems
• MongoDB support
• MariaDB blog post

(updated 2/12/2015)