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title: "Making Power Open to the Enterprising Masses"
date: "2014-05-15"
categories: 
  - "blogs"
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Since its development in the 1990s, IBM Power Systems served databases. They crunched big data for big business better than anyone else in the industry. But so these systems would support the boom of mobile and cloud computing – not to mention social media and its unstructured data ilk – IBM decided to open Power 8 technology up to the world via the OpenPOWER Foundation.