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– IBM Introduces New Software-Defined Storage Solution, IBM Storage Ceph as a Service

With the imminent release of RISE with SAP on IBM Power Virtual Server in the second quarter, IBM and SAP continue to highlight the platform’s technology and business advantages. IBM and SAP jointly announced RISE with SAP on IBM Power VS in January to modernize legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) environments with AI-powered business processes. The post IBM, SAP Expand Partnership to Accelerate Cloud Deployments, AI Innovation appeared first on TechChannel.

Last week, I had the opportunity to deploy a new partition with Ubuntu on Power installed. This was not the first time I was venturing into such a situation; I had previously deployed some Linux machines, but they were not production machines. This time however is different, a real production partition, internal for my team The post Ubuntu on power… how much fun and sweat appeared first on All4Power.

OK, this is getting crazy. On March 3, IBM announced price increases for various parts of the Power Systems stack and related hardware and software technologies often used with the platform. IBM also announced additional price increases to rebalance its pricing with respect to the US dollar for eighteen foreign currencies around the world in the same announcement. These price increases will take effect on April 1. These price increases from March 3 were in addition to ones that it made in April 2024, then in September 2024, and then again in December 2024 for parts of the … The post More Not April Fools: Even More Price Hikes For Power Systems appeared first on IT Jungle.

Thanks to the mighty ScummVM, many games made with AGS game engine could be played perfectly and natively on exotic architecture such as this super powerful IBM POWER9 CPU running on the Raptor Computing System Raptor motherboard

Jason Hardy and Josh Grabill of Racksquared are joined by DJ Singley of Mapsys to discuss the realities of DR planning The post Surviving IBM i HA Chaos: The Brutal Reality of DR Solutions appeared first on TechChannel.

German application giant System Analyse Programmentwicklung, better known as SAP, has spent more than five decades to deliver five major versions of application software to help companies run themselves. They are R/1 in 1977, R/2 in 1981, R/3 in 1992, mySAP.com (which became Business Suite) in 1999, SAP HANA in 2011 with its S/4HANA application suite in 2015. And today, the company has over 400,000 customers. As is well known, SAP wants to create an application system, which is a phrase that resonates with the OS/400 and IBM i faithful. SAP was founded by five ex-IBMers from Germany and started … The post RISE For SAP Could Be A Boon For IBM’s PowerVS Cloud appeared first on IT Jungle.

For some, what I’m about to describe might seem obvious. However, in my experience, many people still don’t fully understand how different technologies interact with each other and what their specific applications… The post Intel x86, IBM Power, and Containers: A Unified IT Infrastructure appeared first on OSAdmins.

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SAN FRANCISCO, March 12, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Fresche Solutions, a global leader in AI-accelerated IBM i modernization and transformation, announces a strategic partnership with IBM to provide comprehensive managed services for Power Virtual Server (PowerVS). This alliance enables businesses worldwide to migrate their Power Systems to the IBM Cloud, backed by Fresche’s extensive expertise

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IBM is at it again, raising prices for parts of the Power Systems stack and related hardware and software technologies often used with the platform. In announcement letter AD25-0860, which came out on March 3, Big Blue raised prices on various Power Systems and storage products and across various geographic regions. Another part of the price change was to rebalance against the U.S. dollar foreign exchange rate. IBM did a similar price harmonization across geographies in November 2011, and then did it again on September 3. In the latest announcement, eighteen different currencies in the Asia/Pacific and EMEA regions … The post Not April Fools: More Price Increases For Power Systems Coming appeared first on IT Jungle.

The short answer – by automating the upgrade procedure

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IT security is paramount in today’s digital age. As businesses increasingly rely on technology to operate, protecting sensitive data and preventing cyberattacks is a priority. Cloud adoption introduces more security risks, which include data breaches and …

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2025 began 2 months ago. It’s March, and we are back to our daily responsibilities: tickets, customer calls, and our regular routines. We’ve already forgotten our New Year’s resolutions. Let me remind you of a few tasks you need to accomplish this year. Buy a Power10 Server This is the most important task for this The post A Year of Many Changes first appeared on PowerWire.

When managing the HMC console, the activity that needs to be done from time to time is to update it. In the life cycle of the console, ifixes and servie packs are… The post Using Ansible for HMC Update appeared first on OSAdmins.

Here’s a practical approach to managing network configuration on IBM Power servers using Ansible and the ibm.power_hmc collection. Using a playbook as an example, I’ll show how to add a new VLAN… The post IBM Power Ansible in Practice: Adding a VLAN to SEA (Shared Ethernet Adapter) appeared first on OSAdmins.