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We don’t normally spend a lot of time writing about IBM mainframes, but these big iron systems drive a lot of transactions in the world – transactions

Although it was out there, if you knew where to look, IBM just published the traditional EoS for Power 9 (first generation) products : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/announcements/services-withdrawal-discontinuance-service-select-power-systems-products-replacements-available Remember that IBM i 7.5 (V7R5) is the last release supported on Power9 … Start planning for an upgrade !

COMMON’s LeAnn Taylor shares her tips for thriving at the upcoming Power conference, covering networking, education and the importance of enjoying yourself The post How to Make the Most of Your 2025 POWERUp Experience appeared first on TechChannel.

We have a Power10 for our ERP system with an oler desktop computer connected for (emergency) console access. With Windows 10 end of life, this console machine has been identified to be replaced since the CPU is too old for Windows 11. Got us thinking we could simplify all this and use a video card just to get console access. Possible? Or is there something else that people do for console access to their i Series? Feel like every time we go to connect to the console that APIPA (169.254.x.x address) is different and we struggle to get connected. Appreciate any thoughts or suggestions! submitted by /u/Mvalpreda[link][comments]

Kubernetes on IBM Power – The Hard Way

Rob McNelly shares his thoughts on user experiences, both in tech and out in the world The post McNelly: Change May Be Inevitable, but Some Design Changes Are Ill-Advised appeared first on TechChannel.

Kubernetes on IBM Power – The Hard Way

It has been six years since IBM launched IBM Power Virtual Server, its public cloud offering for IBM i workloads. Adoption started slowly but has picked up in recent years as IBM fleshed out the offering and expanded it to more datacenters. As we enter the second quarter, IBM is banking on several new features to help it attract more IBM i customers to PowerVS. Last October, IBM offered PowerVS in 21 IBM Cloud datacenters around the world, including 650 Power Systems customers. Doris Conti, the vice president of Power Systems product management, told The Four Hundred that IBM had … The post What’s New With IBM PowerVS In 2025? appeared first on IT Jungle.

What goes up sometimes comes back down again. We have been chronicling the successive price increases that IBM has been levying on Power Systems, storage, and various software and services products throughput 2024 and into early 2025 to help you keep track of it all. And now, we have an actual price decrease in selected areas. Don’t get too excited. It probably does not apply to you, and the four cumulative and multiplicative broad price increases we have seen in the past year almost certainly still do. To recap: IBM raised prices in April 2024, then in September 2024 … The post Maybe It Was April Fools In Some Cases: Price Cuts For Selected Power Systems appeared first on IT Jungle.

The solution unifies block, file and object data to help organisations address data silos and modernise data lakes or virtual machines storage.

– 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.

Can you imagine finding solutions to your Linux, AIX, IBM i, etc… all in one?! Well, now it is possible thanks to Dame Power, the Spanish-speaking community of IBM Power. At SIXE, we’re excited to be a part of the exclusive Dame Power webinars. A series of free sessions designed to help you dive deeper

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