Frank Heimes

Frank Heimes

5 posts

Staff Engineer

Frank Heimes
6 May 2025

IBM LinuxONE 5 and Ubuntu Server, a great combination from day one

Article Cloud and server

Today, IBM announced the launch of their latest server: the new IBM LinuxONE Emperor 5. This fifth generation redefines IBM’s LinuxONE system as their most secure and high-performing Linux computing platform for data, applications and trusted AI.  Canonical supports LinuxONE Emperor 5 with Ubuntu Server. Ubuntu is...

Frank Heimes
6 May 2025

Frank Heimes
6 February 2024

IBM LinuxONE 4 Express and Ubuntu Server drive data centre performance and economics

Article Cloud and server

Canonical is pleased to announce that Ubuntu Server is optimised and fully supported on IBM LinuxONE 4 Express – the newest addition to IBM’s world-leading LinuxONE server family. The previous model in the Express series, IBM LinuxONE III Express, was immensely popular, and brought the power of LinuxONE to a wider...

Frank Heimes
6 February 2024

Frank Heimes
4 April 2023

IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper 4 brings sustainability and efficiency to the business-class server landscape, fully supported by Ubuntu 22.04

Server Cloud and server

IBM has today announced the latest addition to its IBM LinuxONE server line, the IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper 4. Whereas the recently released IBM LinuxONE Emperor 4 is the perfect fit for enterprise use cases, IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper 4 brings unprecedented flexibility that puts IBM’s world-leading server technology within...

Frank Heimes
4 April 2023

Frank Heimes
13 September 2022

IBM LinuxONE Emperor 4: Maximise the value of next generation IBM LinuxONE servers with Ubuntu 22.04.1

Article Cloud and server

IBM has today announced the next generation of its enterprise-grade Linux server family, IBM LinuxONE. The LinuxONE Emperor 4 is IBM’s most highly performing, secure, sustainable and open Linux server to date.  As the world’s most powerful Linux-based server, LinuxONE Emperor 4 matches perfectly with Ubuntu, the leading...

Frank Heimes
13 September 2022

Frank Heimes
5 April 2022

IBM z16 is here, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS beta is ready

Article Cloud and server

IBM has just unveiled its IBM z16 next-generation computing platform. As the latest product in the zSystems server family, IBM z16 delivers the outstanding performance and security that IBM mainframes are known for, while also bringing innovations in AI inferencing, hybrid cloud support, and quantum-safe cryptography....

Frank Heimes
5 April 2022