The Power7 Rollout Begins In The Middle
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

As you read this story on Monday, I am dressed up in my journalist monkey suit--tan chinos, a colorful oxford shirt, a brown corduroy jacket, and comfortable shoes--attending a Smarter Planet press event at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Ballroom off Columbus Circle in my hometown of New York, New York. The event, of course, is hosted by IBM, and the main reason I care enough to make myself presentable is because this is the coming out party for the first of the Power7-based servers from Big Blue. READ MORE >

The i/OS Roadmap Revealed--Sort Of
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

There is an understandable amount of cynicism among the AS/400 faithful that IBM has neglected the OS/400 operating system, stealing all the best goodies from OS/400 and weaving them into AIX and then not adding some nifty features, such as live partition mobility for PowerVM, to i/OS, the modern instantiation of OS/400. Moreover, i/OS releases are anything but regular and Big Blue doesn't roll up dot releases like other operating system makers do. READ MORE >

The System iWant, 2010 Edition: Blade and Cookie Sheet Boxes
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

I've done big boxes, and little boxes, and in-between boxes in my theoretical and completely hypothetical System iWant, 2010 Edition, Power7-based machines. As I sit down to write the next installment in the System iWant series, IBM is getting ready to launch some kind of Power7-based servers on February 8, and as far as I know, blades are not part of the announcement. So I feel perfectly comfortable in giving Big Blue whatever advice I can come up with to make its Power7 blades better. READ MORE >

As I See It: Blurred Vision
by Victor Rozek

Sam Palmisano hasn't changed much over the years. From his photos, IBM's president, chief executive officer, and chairman appears to be a slightly larger version of his former self--a middle-aged man with a round, boyish face and a soft body; a stranger to physical exertion. Granted, as an executive he isn't paid to chop wood, but I was hoping for a little more mental exertion than was evident in his recent Newsweek column, The Future of the City. READ MORE >