Timothy Prickett Morgan
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Why Fortra Partnered with FalconStor to Launch Continuity Care: A Validated Recovery Service for IBM i
October 26, 2026 Timothy Prickett Morgan
With over 7,000 Power Systems customers, Fortra is one of the largest software conglomerates serving the IBM i and AIX communities and it is by far the largest supplier of systems software for Power Systems. The company is also a key development partner of Big Blue, having nine years ago taken over enhancements to Rational Developer for i, Backup, Recovery and Media Services (BRMS) on i, and PowerHA SystemMirror for i.
As such, Fortra is a perfect partner for FalconStor Software as it seeks to expand the use of its Habanero off-site data protection SaaS and its related Cloud Clean …
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Help Us Understand The IBM i Marketplace By Taking The Survey
October 19, 2026 Timothy Prickett Morgan
It is October, and that means the annual IBM i Marketplace Survey from Fortra is open, and we are asking you to spend some time and give us all some insight into what is going on inside of your IT organization.
The annual survey, which is in its 13th year, opened up on September 15. You can give back to the IBM i community and help nudge IBM and ISVs in directions that are helpful to you by taking the survey, which you can do at this link.
The results of this survey are an invaluable resource for …
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IBM Wheels And Deals To Sell Power Systems, Storage, and Software
October 12, 2026 Timothy Prickett Morgan
Companies are focused on generative AI and how it might be integrated into their applications and their business, but everyone realizes by now that adding GenAI to the systems stack often means needing to upgrade existing back office (transactions) and front office (data analytics) systems so they can feed the AI beast faster and more efficiently. Because there is nothing in the world more expensive than a GPU or an XPU sitting idle when it could be chewing on or spitting out tokens.
To that end, Big Blue is offering a “Buy Now. Pay Later” deal for customers who are …
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Please Take The IBM i Marketplace Survey So We Know What You Know
October 12, 2026 Timothy Prickett Morgan
Yup, it is that time of the year again. The annual IBM i Marketplace Survey from Fortra is open, and we are asking you to spend some time and give us all some insight into what is going on inside of your IT organization.
The annual survey, which is in its 13th year, opened up on September 15. You can give back to the IBM i community and help nudge IBM and ISVs in directions that are helpful to you by taking the survey, which you can do at this link.
The results of this survey are an …
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It Is Time Once Again To Take The IBM i Marketplace Survey
October 5, 2026 Timothy Prickett Morgan
The time has come to take the annual IBM i Marketplace Survey from Fortra, and we are asking you to spend a few precious moments and give us all some insight into what is going on inside of your IT organization.
The annual survey, which is in its 13th year, opened up on September 15. You can give back to the IBM i community and help nudge IBM and ISVs in directions that are helpful to you by taking the survey, which you can do at this link.
The results of this survey are an invaluable resource for …
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IBM “Price Harmonization” Increases For Power Systems Coming In The New Year
September 21, 2026 Timothy Prickett Morgan
When we look back a few years from now, in like maybe 2032 or so, we will look at 2026 as the year of the price increase. Big Blue, along with other system makers and the component makers whose gear goes into those systems, have all had price increases – often very large ones, and sometimes with what looks to me like opportunistic pricing. That’s when vendors raise prices by more than you would think was warranted.
Sometime in early September – I think it might have been on September 1, 2, or 3 – IBM announced a price harmonization …
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Finally: Some Pricing Information On The Power S1112 Entry Server
September 14, 2026 Timothy Prickett Morgan
UPDATED: The entry “Bonnell+” Power S1112 server based on the Power11 processor – the only machine that has a P05 software tier for the IBM i operating system – has been shipping for six weeks now, and I have been digging around trying to get detailed, feature-level pricing for the new machine. I have yet to find that fine-grained pricing that I love to have my hands on, but I did get some help from some friends in the reseller community to get current prices for six different configurations of the Power S1112 – two tower configurations and four rack …
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Will Power Chips Get A Converged Arm Instruction Set Like Z Mainframe CPUs?
August 31, 2026 Timothy Prickett Morgan
One a decade for the past six decades, Big Blue launches an effort to converge its diverse system architectures. It almost never works, with the exception of the launch of the System/360 mainframes in April 1964 and the AS/400 minicomputers in June 1988. And to be fair, the AS/400 was itself based in part on technologies created in a failed convergence effort.
Back in 1986, the “Fort Knox” project sought to converge the System/4300 air-cooled, entry mainframe lines with the System/38 (from 1978) and the System/36 (from 1983), and it failed. But in the failure, the Rochester Labs took some …
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FalconStor Moved To The Blue Lagoon, And Is Poised For Growth Because Of It
August 10, 2026 Timothy Prickett Morgan
Way back in the Dot Com boom, when FalconStor was founded, it was one of the early innovators of what we have come to know as software-defined storage and software-defined networking as well as disaggregated storage. These terms were not even coined until a decade after FalconStor was doing it in its first product, called IPStor, which is the foundation of the various products that the company still sells today.
Like many companies, including IBM itself, FalconStor had some self-imposed business issues and financial challenges over the years – IBM in the late 1980s and the early 1990s, FalconStor in …
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A Deep Dive Into That Power S1112 Entry Power11 Server
August 3, 2026 Timothy Prickett Morgan
The entry “Bonnell+” Power S1112 server based on the Power11 processor has been shipping for a little more than a week. While we still have not been able to get our hands on updated Power10 entry server pricing as well as the pricing on the new Power S1112, we can tell you a bunch more about the new machine even though IBM has not yet added the Power S1112 to the entry Power11 Redbook.
The feeds and speeds of the Power S1112 were detailed on July 22 in an IBM i Guided Tour, called Next-Generation Entry Infrastructure for IBM i: …
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