In today’s business environment, with its focus on retrieving and delivering massive troves of data for engagement, the LAMP stack has become a de facto standard. Traditionally, Intel processors have been the primary platform for LAMP stack solutions, but with improvements to its price-performance, entry-level Power Systems based on POWER8 have emerged as an option.
The Turbo LAMP stack on IBM POWER8 processors is a tight collaborative relationship with several key component providers. IBM and its OpenPOWER Foundation partners Ubuntu and Mellanox provide an infrastructure to allow software stack vendors to take advantage of the new POWER8 line of processors.