IBM's Evolving Power Systems Rollout
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Shooting and hitting a moving target is never easy, but nailing a moving target when you are flying down a bumpy road trying to hit that target is another thing entirely. Which is why the server business is a bit like the chase scene in a thriller movie. The targets that vendors are aiming at are chip and system roadmaps, and the blood is red ink, but there is a certain kind of drama in it. Particularly if your company's business, and perhaps your job, depends on the reliability, scalability, and availability of your primary server platforms. READ MORE >

Power7 Boxes Show Good Java Oomph Versus Other Iron
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Since the Power7-based machines were launched in February and March, The Four Hundred has been digging around for all of the performance information we can find on the new machines, particularly running the i 6.1 or i 7.1 operating system and filling in some gaps by making some estimates for online transaction processing on the Power7 blade servers. This week, I wanted to give you a sense of how the Power7-based machines stack up on Java application performance, in this case gauged by the SPECjbb2005 application serving test. READ MORE >

Infor Readies ERP Applications for i 7.1
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

The announcement in late June by application software powerhouse Infor that it was building a lot of its new applications for Microsoft's Windows Server, SQL Server, and SharePoint Server, doesn't mean the Power Systems i platform is not still important to the company, and Infor is most definitely hard at work getting its apps up to speed on IBM's latest Power7-based machines and the i 7.1 operating system. READ MORE >

As I See It: Uproar Down Under
by Victor Rozek

Those in favor of restricting speech often argue that the Framers of the Constitution could not have anticipated a technology such as the Internet that can be used to disseminate bomb-making instructions, invite sedition, propagate racism, and spread pornography like pollen. And, of course, they're right. The Framers probably didn't envision space travel either; or Lady Gaga, or a black President, for that matter. But here we are. READ MORE >