{"id":5749,"date":"2013-02-07T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2532934"},"modified":"2013-02-07T20:07:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T20:07:00","slug":"cloud-computing-ibm-cuts-price-to-push-into-the-cloud-big-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-computing-ibm-cuts-price-to-push-into-the-cloud-big-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing: IBM Cuts Price to Push into the Cloud &amp; Big Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IBM is out to push its Power-based servers into Big Data and the cloud.<br \/>\nIts problem is the cheap commodity servers sold by HP and Dell.<br \/>\nIts answer Tuesday was to cut the price of its proprietary hardware by as much as 50%.<br \/>\nThat was the day it unveiled a line of eight Power 7+-based servers running AIX or Linux whose price starts a shade under six grand, the same neighborhood where comparable x86 boxes live, a first for IBM.<br \/>\nThey\u2019re supposed to be fitted with technology borrowed from Big Blue\u2019s super-smart Watson supercomputer, the one that beat human contestants on the Jeopardy game show. The Watson widgetry will let users analyze Big Data and run Hadoop and set up a private cloud at a cheaper cost. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2532934\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM is out to push its Power-based servers into Big Data and the cloud.<br \/>\nIts problem is the cheap commodity servers sold by HP and Dell.<br \/>\nIts answer Tuesday was to cut the price of its proprietary hardware by as much as 50%.<br \/>\nThat was the day it unveil&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}