IBM (News - Alert) has unveiled the first-ever open beta program for AIX called AIX 6, company's open standards-based UNIX operating system. AIX 6 makes use of the technology of the recently announced POWER6 microprocessor powering advances in energy conservation and virtualization
technology.
AIX runs on IBM's System p UNIX servers, based on POWER technology. AIX 6 comes with Workload Partitions, a software-based virtualization technology that decreases the number of operating system images that have be managed when consolidating workloads to increase energy efficiency and reduce costs.
Other key features include Live Application Mobility that relocates running Workload Partitions between servers without restarting the application. Role Based Access Control, a security enhancement, helps administrators grant authorization for managing specific AIX resources to users.
AIX is capable becoming the leading customer server and application investment protection solution. AIX 6 will run on IBM systems based on POWER4, PowerPC 970, POWER5, and IBM's latest POWER6 processors, helping customers protect their investment in existing hardware and take advantage of new features and technology in AIX 6 like Workload Partitions for enhanced application virtualization.
In addition, AIX 6 is binary compatible with previous releases of AIX 5L providing investment protection for customer and ISV applications written for previous releases of AIX two levels back, including AIX 5.2 and 5.3.
With IBM Advanced POWER Virtualization (APV), customers can run Linux applications natively in one or more logical partitions running SUSE Linux Enterprise or Red Hat (News - Alert) Enterprise Linux integrated with AIX applications on the same physical System p server.
"AIX 6 is a significant technical achievement in the evolution of this world-class UNIX operating system, providing both investment protection by allowing existing AIX apps to run unmodified as well as allowing those apps to take advantage of new virtualization technologies that will provide business value to our clients," said Scott Handy, IBM vice president of worldwide marketing and strategy for System p.
Niladri Sekhar Nath is a contributing writer for TMCnet covering telecommunications, service providers and networking
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