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  • PowerLinux: Everything you needed to know about little endian…

    If, like me, you’ve been scratching your head a little about recent changes to the PowerLinux landscape, then IBM’s Jeff Scheel has all the lowdown you need. Looking around the Power Systems blogoshpere, it would seem that I’m not the only one who has found recent discussions about big endian and little endian Linux slightly…

  • Bluemix offers a glimpse of the future

    IBM’s new cloud-based developer sandbox Bluemix offers a fascinating insight into the future. Or, at least, the future according to IBM. Launched last week, the emergence of this cloud development platform as a service (PaaS) may not seem immediately compelling to Power Systems users. But Power-based development options will be available in the near future,…

  • HelpSystems buys RODIN and RJS

    Midrange powerhouse HelpSystems added two more solutions to its already considerable armoury last week when it acquired RJS Software Systems and bought the RODIN data warehousing portfolio. It bought RODIN from Coglin Mill, originally formed by Allen Perry in 1984 in Adelaide, Australia, to serve the S/38 market. RODIN features powerful change data capture, ETL…

  • IBM’s Power processor sell-off “imminent”

    IBM is rumoured to be on the brink of selling its Power processor manufacturing business. According to reports in American media outlets, Big Blue is going to offload its entire chip-making arm to California-headquartered GlobalFoundries. GlobalFoundries was spun out of AMD in 2009 and is owned by the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. The company may…

  • Power System conference dates in UK, Sweden, Hungary, Germany, more…

    Here’s our latest round-up of events around Europe and beyond. If you have a conference, seminar or workshop that you would like to see listed on PowerWire, please get in touch. European Events APSU Technology Showcase July 9, 2014 Canary Wharf, London (See news story on PowerWire) APSU Technology Showcase September 16, 2014 Silverstone racing…

  • New and improved: Advanced Excel integration from Symtrax; HelpSystems enhances ROBOT/Console; Fresche Legacy beefs up entry-level app analysis

    Midrange specialist Symtrax has released a new version of StarQuery Suite, its set of Excel-integrated BI tools for managing databases, queries, reports and access rights. StarQuery (pictured above) extracts data from i-based ERP applications directly into Excel and there is also an extension for dealing with the quirks of Oracle’s JDE World For admins, StarQuery…

  • Charity cyclists invite IBM i fans along for the ride

    The whole of the UK’s IBM i community has been invited to join staff at LANSA on this year’s Palace- to-Palace charity bike ride. A flagship annual fixture to raise funds for The Princes Trust, the event features 4,000 cyclists riding 45 miles from Buckingham Palace to Windsor Castle. It takes place on Sunday, October…

  • i-UG born at packed UK conference

    It’s official: Britain’s two IBM i user groups, NiSUG and the IBM CUA have merged and are now i-UG. NiSUG chairman Mike Ryan and CUA/Common UK chairman Pat Flannery made the announcement yesterday at a packed International i-Power conference in Windsor. NiSUG held its flagship event this year in close conjunction with Common Europe, the…

  • New LX user group launches in UK

    A new organisation for British users of Infor’s LX ERP software will hold its inaugural meeting at the National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham on July 9. LX started out as SSA’s BPCS, an original mainstay of IBM’s midrange server market. The new Infor LX User Group has been put together by Proximity Enterprise Solutions, a…

  • Power p beats Oracle’s Exadata in Unix server punch-up

    Power Systems running AIX cost less to run than Oracle’s new Exadata boxes, according to a new report published by IBM. American analyst International Technology Group (ITG) weighed up the three-year costs and performance of the two heavyweight combatants slugging it out in the Unix server war. And while some pundits tipped Oracle’s next-gen cohort…

  • Events: APSU holds three big Power8 launch events

    Big British IBM business partner APSU is holding three major events to fly the flag for Power Systems. Its Technology Showcase events take place at Manchester United FC’s Old Trafford ground on June 24, London’s Canary Wharf on July 9 and the Silverstone racing circuit in Northamptonshire on September 16. Sky News presenter Martin Stanford…

  • New and improved: Three big updates from Halcyon, looksoftware gives COBOL folk an IDE, SEQUEL adds pivot tables

    In the new-look Power.eu’s first regular product round-up, we’ve got news of three important updates from Halcyon Software, plus new gear from looksoftware and SEQUEL. First up, Halcyon Software has released a new version of Systems Operations Suite, its the monitoring and automated operations solution for IBM i. New features include Job Log Monitor, which…