{"id":38300,"date":"2020-04-08T18:05:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T10:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=38300"},"modified":"2020-04-08T18:05:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T10:05:15","slug":"amd-announces-that-ibm-cloud-is-enhancing-its-global-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2020\/04\/08\/amd-announces-that-ibm-cloud-is-enhancing-its-global-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"AMD announces that IBM Cloud is enhancing its global infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>AMD\u00a0announced that IBM Cloud is enhancing its global infrastructure with 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0Gen AMD EPYC processors to power its latest bare metal servers. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the addition of the AMD EPYC 7642 processor to its cloud portfolio, IBM is engineered to deliver increased computing performance in its bare metal offerings. Available now, these new bare metal servers are the first 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0Gen AMD EPYC based offering from IBM Cloud and are focused on the computing power and performance required to accelerate modern workloads like data analytics, electronic design automation, artificial intelligence and virtualized and containerized workloads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u201c2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors deliver where it counts for cloud providers, providing the cores, scalability and throughput for critical workloads,\u201d said Forrest Norrod, senior vice president and general manager, Data Center and Embedded Solutions, AMD. \u201cWe are extremely excited to extend the advantages of 2<sup>nd<\/sup>&nbsp;Gen AMD EPYC processors to new bare metal offerings at IBM Cloud, helping customers tackle today\u2019s compute-intensive workloads.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We are thrilled to launch new IBM Cloud offerings powered by the 2nd Gen AMD EPYC CPUs,\u201d says Satinder Sethi, GM, IBM Cloud Infrastructure Services.&nbsp;\u201cWith these new processors, we can offer IBM Cloud clients greater choice and flexibility to select the platform that is best suited to meet the needs of today\u2019s most demanding workloads.&nbsp; We look forward to continuing to deliver new innovations and value to our clients in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The AMD EPYC 7642 based, dual socket bare metal server offering at IBM Cloud includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a096 CPU cores per platform<br>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Base clock frequency of 2.3GHz with a Max Boost up to 3.3GHz<br>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a08 memory channels per socket for superior memory bandwidth<br>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Up to 4TB memory configuration support<br>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Up to 24 local storage drives<br>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0OS choices of RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, MS Server<br>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Monthly, pay-as-you-use billing<br>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Orderable via the\u00a0global IBM Cloud Catalogue, API, or CLI<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bare metal servers are being made available in IBM Data Centers across the North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific regions. The AMD EPYC 7642 based servers can be ordered via the IBM Cloud global catalogue portal, API or CLI and consumed in a monthly pay-as-you-use model. Visit\u00a0IBM Cloud\u00a0to start building a bare metal server configuration with 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0Gen AMD EPYC processors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the addition of the AMD EPYC 7642 processor to its cloud portfolio, IBM is engineered to deliver increased computing performance in its bare metal offerings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":38301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1280,1130,3913],"class_list":["post-38300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-amd","tag-cloud-technology","tag-ibm-cloud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}