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- New Computing Environments Breed Simple Questions, Not So Simple Answersby Andrew Wig on 2024-11-04 at 22:58
Rob McNelly shares things young engineers say, his recent work on IBM i issues and some old photos The post New Computing Environments Breed Simple Questions, Not So Simple Answers appeared first on TechChannel.
- Edge Computing and AI: The Power of Proximityby Paul Chapman on 2024-11-04 at 08:24
Discover why running AI workloads closer to your data source transforms performance, security, and efficiency in enterprise computing environments. In today’s data-driven world, the question isn’t just about how to process information – it’s about where to process it. As organizations grapple with exponentially growing datasets and increasingly complex AI workloads, the strategic placement of
- IBM Hikes Hardware, Software, And Services Pricesby Timothy Prickett Morgan on 2024-11-04 at 05:15
Inflation might be somewhat tamed in the major economies of the world, but the price increases keep coming from Big Blue as it tries to balance out its costs and its need to profit to drive the stock that provides the real compensation for top executives against customers who are getting pretty sick of price increases in every aspect of their business and personal lives. We saw a price increase hit our emails, as did other IBM i shops, on October 29 last week, but if you look at announcement letter AD24-2249, it was dated September 3, 2024. Go … The post IBM Hikes Hardware, Software, And Services Prices appeared first on IT Jungle.
- Power10 Keeps Plugging Along As Power11 Looms For 2025by Timothy Prickett Morgan on 2024-11-04 at 05:10
Considering how late we are in the Power10 and System z16 product cycles, things went pretty well for IBM in the respective Power Systems and System z businesses in the third quarter of 2024. While customers always look forward to future price/performance enhancements that come with a product refresh, there doesn’t seem to be anything out of the ordinary when it comes to a slowdown in sales ahead of next year’s Power11 and “Telum-II” System z17 launches. Business seems to be going pretty well for Big Blue, all things considered, although it had to pump $2.73 billion into its pension … The post Power10 Keeps Plugging Along As Power11 Looms For 2025 appeared first on IT Jungle.
- Webinar: Storage smackdown: Comparing IBM internal and external storageby Service Express on 2024-11-01 at 13:00
Originally presented during iAdmin 2024, Richie Palma and Steven McIver share strengths and pain points for IBM internal and external storage. If you’re wondering what option makes the most sense for your business, watch this on-demand session for the features and benefits of each option to help you narrow down your storage strategy.
- NVL’s Cloud Journey with IBM Power VSby Paul Chapman on 2024-10-31 at 11:07
Discover how National Van Lines overcame power outages and modernized operations with IBM Power Virtual Server, cutting disaster recovery from days to hours
- IBM Flexible Service Processor Vulnerability Lets Attackers Gain Service Privilegeson 2024-10-30 at 08:42
A critical security vulnerability has been discovered in IBM’s Flexible Service Processor (FSP), potentially allowing unauthorized network users to gain service privileges. The static nature of these credentials could allow network users to gain service privileges to the FSP, potentially compromising the security of affected systems.
- National Van Lines | IBMon 2024-10-30 at 03:42
In the fast-paced world of moving and relocation, timing is everything. National Van Lines (NVL), an employee-owned company with operations across 48 states and beyond, prided itself on seamless service, whether relocating families or businesses. But in recent years, NVL faced a major roadblock—frequent and lengthy power outages in its home base of Chicago. These outages left its servers offline for days, stalling critical operations and putting their business continuity at risk. Beyond unreliable power, NVL also struggled to maintain a reliable disaster recovery plan. The company relied on physical tapes for backups—an outdated solution that offers little protection when outages occur. With an increasingly remote workforce, NVL needed more than just a quick fix. They needed a resilient cloud solution that would protect their operations and keep their employees connected, no matter where they were working.
- Protected: Deploy x86 Microservices on Power with OpenShiftby Paul Chapman on 2024-10-29 at 19:28
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- Revolutionizing Edge AI: Equitus and IBM Power Servers Transform Data Intelligenceby Paul Chapman on 2024-10-29 at 12:21
Discover how Equitus revolutionizes edge AI with IBM Power10 servers, delivering unmatched performance for defense and enterprise applications.
- IBM hints at POWER11, hopefully will fix POWER10’s firmware messon 2024-10-29 at 05:48
Just as IBM was posting “future” processor compiler patches in 2019 for what ended up being early POWER10 enablement, they are once again repeating their same compiler enablement technique with sending out “PowerPC future” patches for what is likely to be POWER11.The “PowerPC future” patches sent out today are just like before — complete with mentions like “This feature may or may not be present in any specific future PowerPC processor…Again, these are preliminary patches for a potential future machine. Things will likely change in terms of implementation and usage over time.“ If this is indeed a sign that POWER11 is on its way, I really hope IBM learned from its mistake with POWER10. POWER9 was completely open, top to bottom, which made it possible for Raptor Computing Systems to build completely open source, auditable workstation where every bit of code was open source. POWER10, however, contained closed firmware for the off-chip OMI DRAM bridge and on-chip PPE I/O processor, which meant that the principled team at Raptor resolutely said no to building POWER10 workstations, even though they wanted to. I firmly believe that if IBM tried even the littlest bit, there could be a niche, but fairly stable market for POWER-based workstations, by virtue of being pretty much the only fully open ISA (at least, as far as POWER9 goes). Of course, we’re not talking serious competition to x86 or ARM here, but I’ve seen more than enough interest to enable a select few OEMs to build and sell POWER workstations. Let’s hope POWER11 fixes the firmware mess that is POWER10, so that we can look forward to another line of fully open source workstations.
- Can we reduce SUSE Linux installation times as we did with Red Hat?on 2024-10-25 at 11:36
Of course, we can!
- IBM’s Red Hat Acquisition Will Pay For Itself By Early Next Yearby Timothy Prickett Morgan on 2024-10-24 at 21:26
Big Blue has reported its financial results for the third quarter of 2024, and the thing that stands out most is not the System z16 mainframes and Power10 midrange and big iron are getting a little long in the tooth ahead of new product cycles expected to start in 2025. … IBM’s Red Hat Acquisition Will Pay For Itself By Early Next Year was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
- Kickstart file for Red Hat Enterprise Linux installations on IBM Poweron 2024-10-23 at 11:04
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- RPG Code Assist Is The Killer App For AI-Enhanced Power Systemsby Timothy Prickett Morgan on 2024-10-23 at 04:12
“I love it when a plan comes together.” – Colonel John “Hannibal” Smith, The A Team. Look, we take our wisdom and our joy where we can find it here at The Four Hundred, and it does indeed look like Big Blue has a plan that is coming together with regards to generative AI and the Power Systems hardware platform as it relates to the IBM i software platform. We told you in Monday’s issue that IBM was up to something with regard to the Power Systems line, which was revealed to partners and presumably key … The post RPG Code Assist Is The Killer App For AI-Enhanced Power Systems appeared first on IT Jungle.
- GBM and Mashreq partner to power core banking operations with Next-Gen IBM POWER 10 …on 2024-10-22 at 22:20
The agreement signed during Gitex Global 2024 by Ossama El Samadoni, General Manager of GBM Dubai and Mohammed Iqbal, Executive Vice President and Head of Technology at Mashreq, aims to deliver cutting-edge solutions to enhance the bank’s digital offerings and meet the evolving market needs. Mohammed Iqbal, Executive Vice President and Head of Technology at Mashreq, said: “Partnering with GBM and upgrading to IBM POWER10 has been a pivotal step in strengthening our infrastructure as we continue our growth trajectory.
- KVM in a PowerVM LPAR: A Power user guide Part Ion 2024-10-22 at 17:02
This document covers various details about how how to setup Linux LPAR and KVM guests, how they work together together with help from the underlying hypervisor (PowerVM), as well as how various execution resources are a virtualized. This document is aimed at system-administrators and developers running KVM Guests in an PowerVM LPAR and want to peek under the hood to better understand the environment.
- Expand Hybrid Cloud and AI Adoption with Client Site Capabilities of IBM Power Virtual Serveron 2024-10-21 at 18:03
IBM is extending the capabilities of Power Virtual Server to deploy in a client data center, delivering the flexibility around consumption and management capabilities of the cloud while keeping the data on-premises to help address regional compliance and governance requirements of the business. With the client data center option, a local zone is deployed into the client’s data center and connected to IBM Cloud to deliver the same as-a-service experience as the IBM Power Virtual Server service running in IBM’s own data centers.
- IBM Nears The End of the Road for Server Reliability Improvementsby Alex Woodie on 2024-10-21 at 04:13
Reliability has always been one of the hallmarks of IBM big iron, the midrange and mainframe systems hundreds of thousands of companies run their businesses on around the world. These sturdy systems simply don’t go down very often, certainly less frequently than “industry-standard” (i.e. Intel-based) systems. In fact, the System z and Power systems are so reliable that, statistically speaking, there’s very little room for improvement. For data on uptime and reliability, we turn to Information Technology Intelligence Consulting (ITIC), which is led by longtime IT industry analyst Laura DiDio. ITIC has been conducting an annual server and operating system … The post IBM Nears The End of the Road for Server Reliability Improvements appeared first on IT Jungle.
- IBM Previews New Power Tech At TechXchange Eventby Timothy Prickett Morgan on 2024-10-21 at 04:10
I wish we could tell you what was up, but we don’t know what it is. But we do know that all of the top tech brass at Big Blue related to the Power Systems platform are going to be participating in the keynote address at IBM’s TechXchange 2024 event in Las Vegas – what we used to call PartnerWorld – on Tuesday. Like a bad AI model with not enough parameters and not enough data broken down into tokens, we have to try to infer from first principles what IBM might be announcing and therefore what we might see … The post IBM Previews New Power Tech At TechXchange Event appeared first on IT Jungle.