IBM Kills Off Remaining Power6 and Power6+ Systems
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

If you thought it was tough to get your hands on an Power 520 or Power 550 server using one of IBM's older dual core Power6 or Power6+ processors in the fourth quarter, then it is going to get a whole lot harder to get one of these machines very soon. That is because Big Blue has pulled the plug on these and other Power Systems machines in the same generation and will stop selling them in the coming months. READ MORE >

Drilling Down into IBM's Real 2010 Systems Business
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

For the past couple of quarters, I have been refining my model of IBM's server business, and I think with the incarnation I built to analyze the company's fourth quarter and full year results for 2010, I have something that is closer to reality than I have ever put together before. And it shows just how much Big Blue is, despite all of its jaw-boning about services and Smarter Planet, dependent on good, old-fashion systems. READ MORE >

Does the iSeries Have a Victim Mentality?
by Herman Woudenberg

Does the iSeries have a victim mentality? Does the whole IT industry have one? I am actually beginning to think the whole i community, which owns one of the most world's most advanced computers, is its own worst enemy. READ MORE >

As I See It: The Six Step Solution
by Victor Rozek

Like poker players, addicts also have a tell that betrays their addiction. The red nose and veined cheeks of the alcoholic; the yellow teeth of the smoker; and the soft, rotting teeth of the meth user. But technology addiction is a little different. Being a higher-order addiction (far superior to substance abuse), it has certain unique attributes. For one thing, it has spawned its own sub-species: Nerdus Americanus. READ MORE >