OpenPOWER Summit

Event Highlights

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April 27, 2016

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• More than 50 hardware reveals during morning keynote

• 7 executive video interviews with SiliconANGLE TV’s theCUBE

• More than 10 reporters in attendance at keynote, including Bloomberg, Forbes and IDG

• 130+ press stories resulting in more than 285 million unique impressions

• #OpenPOWERSummit hashtag generated more than 4 million impressions across an audience

of 1.77 million people

Summit by the Numbers

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Media Coverage

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“Such moves illustrate the

momentum OpenPower officials

said the open-source effort has built

up over the past couple of years,

particularly since the first

OpenPower Summit a year ago. At

the time, the group had about 130

members and showed off fewer than

20 OpenPower-based systems and

components. This year the group

sports more than 200 members, and

on stage during the morning

sessions at the summit April 6 were

almost 60 products.” —Jeffrey Burt

“The innovations introduced today

demonstrate OpenPOWER members’

commitment to building technology

infrastructures that provide

customers with more choice,

allowing them to leverage increased

data workloads and analytics to

drive better business outcomes.”

—Doug Black

“Google has technology to easily

switch away from Intel Corp. server

chips and is helping other companies

do the same, a potentially worrying

development for the dominant

provider of processors that power

data centers. Google, the main

division of Alphabet Inc., said

Wednesday it has built software that

lets it use OpenPower chips from

International Business Machine Corp.

to run some of the computer servers

in its many massive data centers.”

—Jack Clark

“To get the performance they

need, companies like

Rackspace and Google need

the flexibility to rethink how

their servers are

designed…That's easier with

Power than with x86 because

IBM has opened the platform

and removed licensing

restrictions that otherwise

make it hard for a community

of customers and vendors to

design new systems

together.” —James Niccolai

“The OpenPOWER Foundation

keeps making progress, year

after year, and at this year’s

OpenPOWER Summit, they

moved even more steps closer

to the deployment of complete

OpenPOWER systems.”

—Patrick Moorhead

Media Highlights

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“While this approach to hardware

competition is still relatively new,

the progress that the OpenPOWER

foundation is making in what is a

very competitive market is

impressive. This is showcasing

that thinking out of the box with

regard to technologies like this

and giving up control can result in

a far better outcome than the more

typical head-to-head competition

more commonly used.” —Rob

Enderle“All of the announcements

were made on the first day

of the annual OpenPower

Summit in San Jose,

California – the crossover

between the two

organizations [OpenPOWER

and Open Compute Project]

is expected to boost the

open hardware movement

as a whole, and increase the

appeal of IBM’s venerable

Power silicon.”

—Max Smolaks

“The growing roster of

OpenPower members and

commercial solutions

demonstrate that the

Foundation is a stable,

increasingly potent force in

commercial data centres.” —

Ben Sullivan

"OpenPower processors

combined with acceleration

technology are fundamentally

changing server and data

centre design today and into

the future.” —Daniel

Robinson

"Compute technology

development is at a

crossroads. We need to have

a different approach. Google

is backing the vision that

underpins the OpenPower

Foundation.“ —Chris

Williams

"The new and upcoming

solutions developed

individually and

collaboratively by Foundation

members speak to the

evolving value of IBM's

POWER Architecture. But they

also highlight the desire for

new, alternative computing

innovations among global

data center vendors and the

customers they serve." —Jeff

Burt

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“There are two things that underdogs have

to do to take a big bite out of a market. First,

they have to tell prospective customers

precisely what the plan is to develop future

products, and then they have to deliver on

that roadmap. The OpenPower collective

behind the Power chip developed did the

first thing at its eponymous summit in San

Jose this week, and now it is up to the

OpenPower partners to do the hard work of

finishing the second.”—Timothy Prickett

Morgan

“A key selling point of the OpenPOWER

argument is that Moore’s Law has turned

into something more like Moore’s history

lesson as the pace of CPU performance

improvements no longer follows the

proscribed rate, causing Intel to slow the

cadence of semiconductor process

improvements and add another tock

(microarchitecture improvement) to its

traditional tick-tock product cycle.” —Kurt

Marko

“The intent of the OpenPOWER

foundation is to create an ecosystem

around POWER processors, where

hardware vendors can provide

compatible motherboards and

accessories, in the same way that

vendors currently do for Intel server

processors.” —James Sanders

"The two tech giants [Google and

Rackspace] are using an open source server

created by IBM called the POWER9

processor. It is among more than 50 new

products being developed across 200

technology companies as part of the

OpenPOWER Foundation, an industry

controlled nonprofit dealing with the reality

and cost of big data demands.“

—Kristen Mosbrucker

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IBM Discloses Future Roadmap

At OpenPOWER Summit

Media Photo Highlights

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Social Engagement

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