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## IBM LinuxONE essentials 

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Linux adoption grew dramatically over recent years, expanding from initial use by startups for web servers, into its use today for a vast range of enterprise computing workloads. 

Digital is transforming the industry. To be competitive, enterprises must deliver trusted services to their clients while accelerating value. This need requires an open source platform that speeds your developers’ creative genius and  a highly secure cloud infrastructure that provides instantaneous data delivery any day, whether you have thousands or millions of simultaneous users. 

LinuxONE is a Linux-only platform that supports customers who are interested in the use of the open source network that is combined with highly secure and highly scalable servers. This configuration makes it an efficient and cost-effective system for hosting various enterprise-grade Linux workloads. 

LinuxONE is focused squarely at enterprise computing in the era of the cloud. 

This chapter includes the following topics: 

GLYPH<SM590000> 1.1, “LinuxONE architecture and hardware” on page 2 

GLYPH<SM590000> 1.3, “IBM LinuxONE servers” on page 3 

GLYPH<SM590000> 1.4, “LinuxONE as a secure platform” on page 9 

