AiX

IBM Try and Buy POWER Servers

1. Sun did this a few years back and it was a hug success, IBM is now offering you a chance to “barrow” an IBM Power System to try and if you like all you have to do is keep it and pay up sucker!

LINK :: 60 Day No Cost Trial - TRY & BUY

Here are the Details I COPY & PASTED from IBMs site so you could them here and then decide if you wan to sign up.

Take advantage of this test drive now:

• Evaluate for yourself how the IBM Power Systems cost-efficient and stable solution stacks up against your own platform.
• Discover how Power Systems platforms give superior performance, using unique vitalization technology, self-healing and self-managing capabilities.
• If you do decide to buy, it may be because you see that a purchase can help reduce your acquisition costs and help lower your total cost of ownership.

Here’s how the Program works:

1. Choose a configuration.
2. Fill out the contact information. You will be contacted within 24 hours to clarify and validate the information.
3. If approved, an IBM Business Partner or IBM Sales Representative will then contact you to arrange shipment and extend a trial agreement to you. Our program goal is to have the machine arrive at your location no later than 1 week after signing the trial agreement.
4. Should you decide not to keep the machine at the conclusion of the 60 day trial, please notify the IBM Business Partner or IBM Sales Representative, pack the machine in the original packing material, and return it to the address specified by the IBM Business Partner or IBM Sales Representative.

NOTE: I know in the previous post I busted IBM for not being UP TO DATE, and while this is a nice start, there needs to be more!

Public Service :: COMMON is coming to RENO

Are you going to be in RENO? I am!

COMMON is having it’s convenetion in RENO and you need to be there. If you are an IBM i or an AIX person looking for POWER solutions, please come to the COMMON Annual Meeting in RENO, NV this year. We would love to have you.

LINK :: COMMON in RENO

AiX Most Secure UNIX & MacOSX is the least secure

“Me Sad!” as my rough and tumble nephew in Colorado would say.

Well I am kind of sad and kind of happy in that AiX, which is an IBM product, is the most secure. I would have thought OpenBSD would have been the top pick.

LINK :: OSNews - IBM: ‘AIX Most Secure, Mac OS X Least Secure’

“It’s time for another security report. You know, those reports that tally vulnerabilities, and then plot or graph them in such a way that their benefactors or clients come out most favourably. Ok, that might be a bit cynical, but fact remains that there is usually something wrong with such reports. The one that’s making its rounds across the internet today is certainly one of them. According to IBM, AIX is the most secure operating system, and Mac OS X the least secure. Not only is the report rather slim on details when it comes to operating system vulnerabilities, it seems like most websites reporting on this story have misunderstood what it was about.”

USB Flash Support for AiX

<!– div.lotusnotesemailheader{display: none;} –><!– div.lotusnotesemailheader{display: inline;} –> This feature has been available in Linux on POWER, but is now available in AIX:

USB flash drive support was included in AIX 5.3 TL9 and 6.1

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ20000

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ19954