Sundry Power Systems i Storage Announcements
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Life has patterns, and Big Blue tends to be fairly regular. It's July, so it is reasonable to expect some kind of Power Systems storage announcements. And indeed, last week IBM did make some tweaks to various storage products to bring the i 6.1 platform into the fold as a peer to other operating systems using some of its more sophisticated storage technologies. READ MORE >

Servers Slammed in IBM's Second Quarter
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

With the entire server market in the tank right now thanks to the poor economy just about everywhere, you can understand why IBM didn't really want to talk all that much about systems when it announced its financial results for the second quarter last Thursday after the market closed. The irony is, even as bad as IBM's server sales were in the second quarter, it probably gained share in the key RISC and X64 server rackets. READ MORE >

IBM Sunsets More Power Systems Features
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Big Blue is cleaning house once again in the Power Systems product line. Or more precisely, in the products that were actually known as the iSeries and pSeries and then the System i and System p in the Power4 and Power5 generations. Get out your flashlight and your old paperwork, and maybe your bifocals if you sit at a computer screen too much like I do, because if you have Power4 or Power5 iron, you will need to see if you need to buy any of these vintage features, conversions, or activations before IBM stops selling them itself or through partner channels. READ MORE >

As I See It: Injured Wing
by Victor Rozek

About the only time I set foot in a shopping mall is during the holiday season--coincidentally the same time everyone else does. So it's no surprise that as I circle the parking lot for the fifth time, looking for an empty space that isn't there, my frustration mounts. I can almost feel the holiday spirit leaching out of every pore. But just when I'm ready to run over Santa and be done with it, the answer to my problem glares at me from the front of every row. There, in the primo spot, at the head of every line, as close as you can get to the store without driving through the front doors, is the empty handicapped spot. READ MORE >