Try Ubuntu on POWER8 for FREE for 30 days

Canonical is collaborating with SoftLayer to offer a 30-day free trial to use the Ubuntu that you love on POWER8! This promotion, open to new and existing Softlayer customers, is a great way to discover the possibilities of Ubuntu on POWER8.

Certified Ubuntu images are now available on SoftLayer! Certified Ubuntu images provide first class security and quality assurance to guarantee the best possible experience on the industry’s leading clouds.

Ready to try Ubuntu on POWER8 for free?

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• The combination of the POWER8 architecture with Ubuntu provides you with the best agile cloud platform and OpenPOWER innovations.
• You get all the benefit of Ubuntu with platform benefits of OpenPOWER.
• The technology offering from SoftLayer combines the best architecture for big data and machine learning workloads with an Ubuntu cloud platform that leads the industry in marketshare.
• POWER8 provides your applications with 8 execution threads per core, a huge memory space with over four times the cache of x86, and a specialized, highly performant accelerator interface (CAPI) which creates a direct path to processors, virtually eliminating system latency.

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Now you can get the same optimized experience to SoftLayer’s bare metal and virtual servers.