The IBM POWER8 Review: Challenging the Intel Xeon

We recently got our hands on a S822L, an dual socket OpenPOWER server. IBM claims that this is an affordable, high performance and highly expandable alternative to the typical Xeon x86 Linux server.  Will Intel finally have some competition in the mid range server space too? Find out as we take a look inside the server and unleash all kinds of benchmarks upon it.