Sometimes you’ve just got to admire Big Blue’s chutzpah. Last Wednesday, the corporation announced that it had pretty much wrapped up the sale of its x86 server manufacturing division to Chinese giant Lenovo. Two days later, it made its latest Power Systems announcements with a press release entitled: “IBM provides clients superior alternative to x86-based […]
Masterclass: Creating an Etherchannel adapter for resiliency with VIO Server
An important aspect of VIO Server design is high availability and resiliency for your client LPARs. However reliable the equipment is, failures do occur and there is always human error. Etherchannel or LACP allows you to provide enhanced network availability and throughput for your LPARs by bundling a number of VIOS Ethernet NICs together to […]
Events diary: Something for everyone at Inforum plus full listings
ERP giant Infor’s European conference schedule gets underway in November with plenty on the agenda for Power i people. Inforum 2014 hits Frankfurt from November 4-5, Paris from November 6-7, London from November 11-12 and Amsterdam from November 14-15. Infor has around 19,000 customers around the world that are running one of its many IBM […]
IBM’s AIX made the most money from Unix in Q2
IBM made the most cash from Unix servers in this year’s second quarter but Oracle sold the most machines. That’s according to an erudite analysis of the latest figures from Gartner by Timothy Prickett Morgan on EnterpriseTech. Prickett Morgan’s reading of the Gartner ‘s latest worldwide quarterly server stats has Oracle down as shipping 11,108 […]
Time-saving tips for AIX device configuration
When you have a one-off command to run on AIX, you just type it in. If you have to do it hundreds of times, you are better off if you script it. But what if the scripting still isn’t fast enough? I recently had to remove hundreds of virtual SCSI (vSCSI) devices from a Virtual […]
Is IBM back in the game in China?
IBM has signed a number of deals that point to an improvement in its fortunes in China. Big Blue looked like it was dealt a mortal blow in the world’s second biggest economy after being caught in the cross-fire caused by Edward Snowden’s revelations last year. But now local server manufacturer Inspur will use DB2 […]
I, for one, welcome our new Watson overlords
IBM researchers in New York have set up a lab where executives can talk over business problems with a Watson supercomputer. According to a report on the MIT Technology Review website this week, the prototype meeting area has a giant display on one wall and microphones in the ceiling. The souped-up Power System listens out […]
Latest Power figures: reasons to be cheerful?
IBM reported its figures for the second quarter of 2014 in July and, once again, revenue from Power Systems was down. Its Systems and Technology division’s $3.3bn takings fell 11% year over year. Revenue from Power Systems fell 28%. In the previous couple of quarters, Power Systems revenues were down 22% and 31%. Such numbers […]
Non-IBM Power iron to hit streets early next year
A report by New York-based IDG journalist Agam Shah claims that the first third-party servers licensed to use IBM’s Power architecture will be on the market early next year. Shah quoted Ken King, general manager, OpenPower alliances, at IBM’s Systems and Technology Group as saying that the first non-IBM Power servers will be used for […]
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 […]
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