IBM Upgrades High-End System i Server with Power6
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Mirroring what IBM's formerly independent System p division did back in May, the Power Systems division--the amalgam of the System p division and the high-end of the now broken up System i division, which was created last week--has announced its first product. It is the first server with the System i brand that makes use of the dual-core Power6 processor. The machine bears a strong resemblance to the rejiggered System p 570 that Big Blue announced back in May. READ MORE >

IBM Previews i5/OS V6R1, Due in 2008
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Well, the mystery about the naming and timing of the next release of the i5/OS operating system is over as of today. Last year, IBM hinted that it might come out some time this year, and there were even rumors in late 2006 that indicated IBM might ship what was tentatively called V5R5 in March 2007--perhaps on existing Power5+ machines, perhaps on a new line of Power6 servers. READ MORE >

EMC Offers Hardware-Based HA Alternative
by Alex Woodie

While EMC is best known in the System i world as the platform's only other provider of external disk besides IBM, a surprising number of EMC's System i customers also utilize the company's high availability offerings. What's more, customers can use EMC's HA and DR offerings, called TimeFinder and SRDF, not only to augment their System i servers, but to protect their Unix, Linux, NetWare, and Windows servers, thereby reducing complexity while boosting resiliency. READ MORE >

SugarCRM Now Available for i5/OS
by Alex Woodie

The transformation of System i into a platform for running cutting-edge, open source applications continued today when SugarCRM announced the availability of its customer relationship management (CRM) application for i5/OS. Sugar Enterprise, as the software is called, was written in PHP and uses Zend's PHP runtime environment and MySQL's open source database. READ MORE >