THIS WEEK… the BIG ITEMS are: THURS’ stl LUG mtng = IBM’s LinuxOne’s 5th anniv (see below for details) SUN is World Penguin Day It’s less than 3 weeks until application deadline for the Bell Labs Prize! (And in space: Tues= Mars helicopter & Thurs = Crew-Dragon-2 launch to ISS.) NEXT WEEK: Monday 26 April is the 100th anniv of the 2nd radio station in the US, i.e. its SLU’s WEW-AM here in StL. Tues-Wed 27-28 Apr is Red Hat Summit online. Tuesday 27 April is Newcomers’ LUG. ________________________________ =============================== THURS 22 Apr 2021 =StL LUG IBM's LinuxOne 5th Anniv See https://stllug.sluug.org/ for current information. • ONLINE MEETINGS ONLY until further notice. • ONLINE sessions will use a remote video meeting service. • HOW TO CONNECT instructions will be on above web page and our mailing lists. • Note that your browser may need to be refreshed each time you check the web page for the instructions. • The stlLUG mtngs are usually on the 3rd Thurs of each month 6:30PM to 9PM. • We may open the remote session at about 6:00PM. ======================================== Title - IBM Z and Linux - Updates and Strategy • Abstract - IBM Z and Linux have run mission critical workloads for over 20 years, yet is seeing new interest and growth. The LinuxONE server family brings security, privacy, scalability, and availability to Linux workloads. This session will provide •an update on this platform and its role in the hybrid cloud. Bio - DeWayne Hughes is an Executive Z Client Architect with over 30 years as an IBMer. He has worked across the Midwest with numerous customers and industries, today supporting large financial services clients. He has supported Linux on Z from the beginning and is enthusiastic about what LinuxONE provides to workloads and their consumers. He also has background with UNIX and x86 environments as a Systems Architect. ======================================== Last Aug 17 was the 5th anniv of IBM starting LinuxOne. We'd hoped to have a talk and we're finally getting it. It's a story of: • private server hrdwr & "The Cloud", • of making it an "Open Src ecosystem" , • a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project. • The Open Mainframe Project with player such as: • SUSE • CA Technologies (now Broadcom) • Canonical / Ubuntu If your wondering what those terms mean & their interactions... come to the talk, BUT YOU CAN CHEAT and read-ahead (or BEHIND on the history) at https://mainframedebate.com/2020/08/17/linuxone-is-5-years-old-today/ (EXCERPTS BELOW) =============================== =============================== AUG 17, '20 On this day five years ago (i.e. 2015) IBM launched LinuxONE, a new family of mission-critical Linux-only servers. In this blog, we plan to give you a behind the curtain view of how IBM brings to market a new product, discuss some highlights from the past five years, and finally share insight into where we see the next five years going for this platform. Bryan Foley and Steven Dickens, the original IBM Offering Managers who were involved in the launch, share their own retrospective of the 5-year journey of LinuxONE. Enterprise Linux IBM has had a long-standing history of supporting the open-source community, including Linux. It was obvious in late 2014 that Linux had won the operating system wars and had become the most pervasive operating system, especially as the cloud evolved. Enterprises saw increasing use of Linux but were also concerned with deploying more mission-critical workloads on x86 systems. A small team of us in late 2014 and early 2015 looked at how we could bring the best capabilities IBM had available in the Systems portfolio and combine these with Linux and the open-source ecosystem in a package that could gain mass-market adoption. ... ... ... The IBM team felt they needed to embrace the Open Source community and make LinuxONE more than just an IBM product push. So, in conjunction with the launch of LinuxONE, IBM decided to add more to the launch. While there was a community around Linux on this chip architecture it was fragmented and disparate. Working collaboratively with the Linux Foundation and an early band of partners the community embarked on forming a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project. In a matter of weeks, this effort was bootstrapped, and the Open Mainframe Project was launched with 14 founding members including players such as SUSE and what was CA Technologies (now Broadcom). The Open Mainframe Project has grown and gone from strength to strength. The Project is hosting its inaugural event this year in September, details of which can be found here. Launch Day – August 17th 2015 – LinuxCon Seattle ... ... ... Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical, joined Ross to announce that Ubuntu would be supporting this new platform which was a first for this chip architecture. ... ... ... ...especially the extreme security, and has built a robust portfolio of offerings as part of the IBM Cloud Hyper Protect Services. This allows clients to quickly spin up virtual servers, databases, or cryptography key management services in the cloud that take advantage of this level of security. To find out more about Hyper Protect click here.