SUSE was, in collaboration with IBM over 15 years ago, the first to bring Linux and mainframe platforms together. According to Mr. Miller, the addition of KVM for IBM z Systems support makes the advantages of mainframe computing more attractive and accessible to customers experienced with Linux and KVM. It also makes Linux the foundation of the software defined data center. The ultimate goal is to bring more workloads and more projects to the mainframe, which is a robust and growing scale-up platform, and KVM was the logical choice.