TFH Volume: 30 Issue: 69 Archives

Racksquared Is Another Option For IBM i Private Cloud

November 2, 2020 Alex Woodie

IBM i shops that are looking for a private cloud to run their IBM i applications may want to check out Racksquared. The Columbus, Ohio-based managed services provider rents Power and IBM i resources to its clients, who, the company says, turn to it because of the increasing difficulty in finding IBM i expertise.

Racksquared was founded in 2011 when a 118-year-old restaurant supply distributor called the Wasserstrom Company spun out its IT department into a separate entity. Wasserstrom had outgrown the server room at its headquarters, so it bought and renovated an old AT&T Wireless data center in downtown …
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You Can Save Money And Get More Performance At The Same Time

November 2, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan

A few weeks ago, we had a chat with John Richards, vice president of Global Asset Recovery Services, the part of IBM that sells certified pre-owned Power Systems, IBM Z and data storage, as well as parts and features, for these devices and is arguably the largest supplier of such equipment in the market. We talked very generally about the differences between the used (sometimes called second-hand) and certified pre-owned (often abbreviated to CPO) markets for Power Systems, and how this market has changed over time, but still can provide significant value to customers – and at a …
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Cloud Walkers Updates IBM i Partition Manager, Slashes Prices

November 2, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan

All over the world, a lot of things are taking a bit longer to get done these days thanks to the disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic. But things are still getting done, and that is the main thing. So it is with Bartlomiej Grabowski, the founder and chief executive officer of Cloud Walkers, the startup based in Prague in the Czech Republic who released a tool called LPARKit, which we covered at its V1 release back in December 2019.

The plan, Grabowski tells The Four Hundred, was to take all of the input from the V1 users …
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IBM Pulls The Plug On First Pass Power9 Entry Machines

November 2, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan

This is probably not a big deal to a lot of IBM i shops, but it might matter to service providers or enterprises with multiple machines that have been qualified by testing people, and to software vendors that need to certify their software on specific hardware platforms. And so we bring it up.

The it we are talking about is in announcement letter 920-152, and it is the withdrawal of the original entry Power9 systems lineup, which IBM often calls the “scale out” machines because they are intended to be used for distributed computing clusters. But one company’s node …
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Racksquared Is Another Option For IBM i Private Cloud

You Can Save Money And Get More Performance At The Same Time

Cloud Walkers Updates IBM i Partition Manager, Slashes Prices

IBM Pulls The Plug On First Pass Power9 Entry Machines

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