{"id":740980,"date":"2013-03-07T19:22:02","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T00:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=618265"},"modified":"2013-03-07T19:22:02","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T00:22:02","slug":"boston-brings-out-aaas-arm-as-a-service-to-accelerate-microserver-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/740980","title":{"rendered":"Boston brings out AaaS \u2014 ARM as a Service \u2014 to accelerate microserver migration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Server vendor Boston is releasing<\/a> a platform of servers that use cell phone chips that developers can use to test their software for future ARM-based enterprise applications. Boston built the platform using Calxeda’s ARM-based servers, and has dubbed it ARM as a Service, or AaaS. the idea behind the product is to help developers move software from servers with brawny x86 cores to microservers with plenty of low-power wimpy cores.<\/p>

With its AaaS, United Kingdom-based Boston will use software from Ellexus to essentially provide Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to customers. Once enrolled, developers will be able to spin up or down multiple nodes on Boston’s Viridis microservers<\/a>, which use the low-power Calxeda systems. <\/p>

The impact of the Boston AaaS could trickle down the supply chain to Calxeda<\/a> and AMD<\/a> as well as other companies making or planning microservers and, naturally, ARM itself.<\/p>

As I reported<\/a> last month, the microserver market is expected to keep growing, and the new ARM cloud could bump up the growth rate. One might say it could help kick some AaaS.<\/p>
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