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IBM pulls off Linux coup with Telia By Peter Galli, eWEEK IBM scored a Linux coup Wednesday as Telia, Scandinavia's largest telecommunications and Internet service provider, announced it was replacing its 70 Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq:SUNW - news) Web hosting servers with a single IBM mainframe S/390 G6 enterprise server. Telia, based in Copenhagen, is also replacing its current EMC Corp. (NYSE:EMC - news) storage servers with one 11.2 Terabyte IBM Shark storage server. • Linux looms large at IBM • Virus Alerts & Solutions • Web Surfer Power Tools • Free MP3 Music Resources Steve Solazzo, IBM's vice president of Linux strategy, said in an interview that the implementation represents Europe's first major commercial enterprise infrastructure based on Linux. The Linux software will be provided by SuSE Inc. of Germany. The S/390 is able to host up to 30,000 virtual Linux servers at the same time, using IBM's VM (Virtual Machine) operating system. "Telia will initially host more than 1,500 customers through individual Linux images, with near-instantaneous scalability up to 30,000 images," Solazzo said. Sun eclipsed Bill Claybrook, an analyst at Boston-based Aberdeen Group Inc., said the deal was significant as it further legitimized Linux's ability to handle the serious applications required by large enterprise customers. "The deal is also very significant for IBM as it now gives them a new market in which to sell their S/390 mainframes, which almost never go down. And, with the VM operating system, users can scale up to a large number of servers and add extra Web hosting capacity relatively quickly," he said. It was also a blow for Sun, which was dominant in this market, Claybrook said. Henrik Riedl, chief financial officer at TeliaNet, said in a prepared statement that it would now take less than 5 minutes to install a new server, whereas previously this took 5 hours. IBM's Solazzo said IBM had worked with Telia at Big Blue's Linux Integration Center in Boeblingen, Germany, and would be shipping the S/390 later this month. He declined to put a specific value on the multimillion-dollar deal. Email this story - View most popular \| Printer-friendly format