Still Wanted: A Power-i System of Systems
July 18, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan
IBM is all about “smarter systems” and “workload optimized systems” these days in its marketing, and as far as I can tell, in the past two years the company has not done anything to bring the kinds of focused design it has for supercomputing and mainframe shops, just to name two, to bear on the Power Systems/IBM i base. And I think the company is missing a big opportunity to re-engage in a big way with those midrange customers. What got me to thinking about this, of course, was last week’s launch by Big Blue of the mini mainframe called |