June 9, 2009 3:17 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Power processor,
System i hardwareBig Blue has slashed prices for most of 20 different upgrades on Power Systems, some by as much as 54%. Some of the upgrades include moving from a Power 5+ processor to a Power 6, and adding memory. There are two upgrade changes that are price increases.
The
April 29, 2009 7:41 PM
Posted by: Leah Rosin
10zig,
document management,
IBM System i user groups,
modernization,
php,
Power processor,
Quadrant,
Security,
vLegaci,
ZendWhile at COMMON, the push-pull of new versus old technologies for the IBM i (AS/400, iSeries, System i) has been an underlying theme. Trevor Perry's recent assertion that IBM's...
April 28, 2009 2:45 PM
Posted by: Leah Rosin
BCD Clover,
BI solutions,
cloud computing,
COMMON,
IBM System i user groups,
ILE,
Linux,
Power processor,
Query/400,
RPG,
Smart i,
SSD,
Talend,
Valence,
virtual tape,
Vision Solutions,
WDSC,
Web toolsDay two at COMMON 2009 is under my belt, and the level of news and information was again a bit more than I could take in.
COMMON educational session tidbits
I attended a session at 8 AM (without coffee) on "Taking Advantage of Capacity on Demand" for POWER Systems. The session...
October 16, 2008 7:58 AM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Operating systems,
Power processor,
System i hardwareRoss Mauri, the general manager of IBM Power Systems, recently wrote an open letter to the System i community. The point of the letter was to update System i users on the state of the platform, and perhaps to ease some of their...
September 4, 2008 8:54 AM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Logical partitions,
Open Source,
Operating systems,
Power processor,
System i hardware
Every year IBM issues a press release touting its IT support for the U.S. Open tennis tournament in Flushing Meadows, N.Y. In past years, they have always talked about...
July 16, 2007 10:06 AM
Posted by: Atrujillo
Power processor,
System managementOne of the claims made by IBM and System i users is that it is more is energy efficient per workload than the equivalent computing power of scaled-out x86 boxes. Writing in the context of...
June 20, 2007 9:34 AM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
iSeries software,
Operating systems,
Power processor,
System i hardwareIn this detailed article, Timothy Prickett Morgan from IT Jungle compares System i price and performance to Unix boxes from IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems.
I suggest reading the story if you want all the dirty details,...
May 30, 2007 6:37 AM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Power processorMaybe IBM announced Power6-based servers on System p before System i because System i doesn't need Power6 as badly. It all comes down to System p customers hungering for more and more...
May 23, 2007 7:14 AM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Power processor,
System i hardwareThe IBM Power6 processor news hit this week, and in case you hadn't seen it, it's all about the System p. Sure, System i got a quick mention in some stories because its Power6-based systems...
