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iPOWER Hour Podcast Episode 33: Assessing Your IBM i Cybersecurity Risks
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IBM i, FSP, and HMC release levels and PTFs (October 2021)
October for me is always the start of the second conference season of the year, with a multitude of conferences happening in October. Unfortunately, two of my favorite the COMMON Fall Conference and IBM Technical University both are virtual events due to COVID. I am so sick of the pandemic, I want to see all my IBM i friends who I see at conferences. Sometimes, it’s not necessarily the sessions you learn the most at, it is at the informal discussions and networking where you learn the most.
That is one of the reasons when you look at our iAdmin being held on Nov 9th and 10th, we have tried to add sessions where you can interact with the iTech speakers, and everyone in attendance. More details about iAdmin later in the newsletter.
I am looking forward to attending in person the COMMON Europe Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark during the first week of November. One of the most beautiful and exciting cities in Europe, it will be great to catch up with so many friends over in Europe that week.
We all heard about the new Power10 Enterprise servers which were announced last month, lots of details have been flowing and these are some amazing large Power Systems, with quite a lot of performance. I can’t wait for next year when the scale-out servers will be announced. IBM has talked about the Power10 chip for about 18 months, and we knew it was coming. From some of the initial performance metrics, it looks like we are going to see a 1.5 to 1.6 performance improvement in these enterprise E1080 servers, over the same E980 (Power 9 based) servers.
We can see how the roadmap of the IBM Power processor has evolved over the years as IBM keeps investing in the POWER processor. Notice in this chart it shows the Power11 processors stated for the future as it is currently being designed. Did you ever think, who actually does the …
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