Timothy Prickett Morgan
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IBM Kills Off Original Flex p260 Node, Other Power Systems Features
June 24, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreWith new Power7+ processors in full production and Big Blue wanting to shift customers to the latest iron rather than stuff that is one to three years old, it is no surprise that the marketing and manufacturing people in Systems and Technology Group are cutting some pages out of the IBM product catalog.
In announcement letter 913-142, IBM said that effective September 20, it would stop selling the original Power7-based Flex p260 server node, which was announced back in April 2012 as one of two Power7 nodes for IBM’s PureFlex modular system. This is the half-width, two-socket node, which
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Disk Array Biz Has Sympathy Pains With The Server Racket
June 24, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreThe general rule of thumb is that for every dollar that is spent on servers, there is another 50 cents or so spent on storage and another 50 cents or so spent on networking. That is the ratio across the industry, and the server class average is brought up mightily by mainframes and other big iron that is pricey indeed. While server and storage purchases are not always directly tied to each other, they are often part of a single system upgrade or new installation and, in many cases, disk arrays are in fact internal to the server. So there
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Silver Anniversary For Silverlake
June 24, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreIt is hard to remember a time when I didn’t spend each and every day with the AS/400 and its progeny. For precisely half of my life, I have spent my days and many of my nights trying to understand the IBM midrange platform, the clients and other systems it interacts with, and watched how it has evolved over time to accommodate new technologies like client server and the Web. I have received a wonderful education about business and technology from countless midrange shops, with the only tuition fee being my own sweat equity and the coursework nothing but the
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Removing Members From And Deleting An i OS Group Profile
June 19, 2013 Hey, Joe
… Read moreWe’re cleaning up some of our IBM i operating system user groups and we need to remove 100 users from a group profile. Is there a way to do that without having to go into each user profile and individually remove their group memberships? We also need to delete some of the group profiles themselves. I’m on i 6.1.
–Jack
This is really easy to do if you use the System i Navigator (OpsNav) program that comes with IBM i Access for Windows V7R1M0. Here’s how to use OpsNav to: 1) remove a group of users from an IBM i
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Creating And Using i Project
June 19, 2013 Susan Gantner
… Read moreIn my previous tip, I introduced i Projects and some ways in which I use them in my development life. In this tip, I’ll show you how to create and populate your projects, and how to make use of them.
Let’s first create an i Project. The easiest way to get started is to go into the i Projects perspective that is built in to RDP. WDSC also allows for the use of Projects, only they are called “iSeries” Projects. If you’re new to the tool and haven’t mastered opening a perspective, there are many ways to do it.
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It Could Be Worse: OpenVMS Users Aren’t Getting Latest Itanium Iron
June 17, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreAfter all of these years and so many battles in the Minicomputer Wars and the Midrange Wars, the OpenVMS operating system is more a friend of the IBM i platform than a foe, particularly with common enemies swarming the data center landscape from the warring tribes of Windows and Linux. So it is important not to gloat as we get what is very likely the final roadmap out of Hewlett-Packard for the venerable OpenVMS.
On June 6, Ric Lewis, general manager of HP’s Enterprise Servers division, which is in charge of its Itanium-based systems, sent a letter to OpenVMS shops
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Microsoft Readies R2 Update For Windows Server 2012
June 17, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreVersion changes between operating systems have been getting stretched out across all platforms for the past several years because most of the major OSes have reach a certain level of maturity and customers are loathe to go through qualification processors at a rapid pace for very little change in functionality. And so the industry has split the difference, doing more frequent updates that add functionality without messing with runtimes and therefore application compatibility.
And so it is with Microsoft‘s Windows Server 2012, which had a Release 2 (R2) preview down in New Orleans in early June, showing off some
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Abacus Wants You To Run In Its Cloud–And For Your Health
June 17, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreWhen something works in a small venue, you try to take it to a big venue in the big cities and see if it will play even bigger there. And so it is with a promotion that Abacus Solutions tested out at the COMMON midrange user group and expo back in early April. And now, it is open to all of you members of the IBM i community.
The theme is running on the cloud, and there’s some double, and maybe triple, entendre in there, since athletic footwear maker Brooks Sports, a $425 million company that runs on IBM
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Dell Goes After SMBs With Data Center In A Box
June 17, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreWith the ever-increasing miniaturization of electronic components, it should be easy to cram a baby data center into a box that does not make a lot of noise and is therefore suitable for small and midrange businesses to park in their offices or for larger companies to plunk in their remote offices. Six years ago, Hewlett-Packard jumped in with its variant on the theme with the “Shorty” BladeSystem c3000 system and a few weeks later IBM countered with its BladeCenter S baby blade server. Now Dell is taking a run at SMBs with a new system it is calling
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IBM Chops Power Systems Memory Prices After Chip Upgrade
June 17, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreBig Blue has had a busy couple of weeks making enhancements to the Power Systems lineup and crafting deals to try to entice customers to move up to more modern machines, or, in the case of IBM i shops, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the launch of the AS/400 platform. The AS/400’s silver anniversary will be on Friday this week, and I will share my thoughts on the Silver Anniversary for the system that was code-named “Silverlake” in next week’s issue. For now, let’s talk about memory enhancements at the high-end of the line.
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