IBM’s OpenPOWER Foundation, a collaboration centered on IBM’s Power Architecture products, created an open platform for the server ecosystem. In the past year, the consortium has grown from five to 125 founding members. Ken King, general manager of IBM’s OpenPOWER Alliances, believes that innovation has driven this growth.

“By opening up the platform, it’s opening up the ecosystem of partners and providers that will deliver solutions on top of the base architecture,” he told theCUBE during IBM Edge2015. “Partners like developing on an open platform.”

Finishing the ‘open’ equation

Although the IT industry already contains multiple “open” foundations, OpenPOWER “finishes the equation,” King said. “Finally, we have the firmware and the hardware element of the entire open platform.”

Power recently migrated to Little Endian Linux, which opens possibilities with data centers. “All of the core distros support Little Endian Linux on Power, which makes it easy to deploy apps on top of Power or migrate solutions from x86 architectures over to Power,” said King. “Add containers to that, and it makes it very easy to implement solutions on top of this, as well as into the hyperscale data center.”

To hear King discuss Moore’s Law, among other topics, watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of IBM Edge2015