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IBM Grows, Power Systems Slows

April 26, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The good news, if you are a customer of IBM who wants Big Blue to stick around in the systems business, is that IBM actually saw some growth in its overall business for the first time in two years. This growth was driven in large part by its System z mainframe line, in the first quarter of 2021. The less than good news – but not unexpected – is that the Power Systems business continued to shrink as customers await high-end Power10 systems later this year and low-end Power10 machines early next year.

In the quarter ended in March, IBM’s …
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IBM Tweaks Power Systems Hardware Here And There

April 26, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

First of all, our apologies for taking so long to get to the hardware roundup from the April 13 Power Systems announcements, which brought us new Technology Refreshes for IBM i 7.3 and IBM i 7.4. There were a few changes to the hardware lineup as well, and let’s go through them now.

As you can see from announcement letter 121-013, IBM has done a refresh on the 2.5-inch flash drives used in the Power9-based server line. According to Douglas Gibbs, offering manager for peripherals at the Cognitive Systems division that is responsible for the Power Systems lineup, this …
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Guru: A Simple Script That Capitalizes on IBM i’s Open Source Capabilities

April 26, 2021 Rob McNelly

In my last piece, we got Yum and Bash running on IBM i. Now let’s build on that foundation to find an open campsite.

I’m serious. Recently I used an IBM i LPAR to schedule a hiking and camping trip to the Grand Canyon. Where to begin? My bio, perhaps. Here it’s mentioned that “Rob enjoys camping, hiking, biking, and backpacking through the mountains of Arizona. . . . His favorite trip was hiking to the blue waters of Havasupai, and he is planning on hiking the Grand Canyon in the near future.”

So last summer I went …
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New IBM i Events Spin Up In May

April 26, 2021 Alex Woodie

Last year, the coronavirus pandemic devastated tech conferences, those multi-day affairs that brought computing communities together and that resulted in a lot of cheese being eaten and coffee being dranken. So it’s big news that COMMON will be holding its first in-person event in over a year in May with its NAViGATE 2021 conference. But before then, HelpSystems will be holding its inaugural BuildIt event next week.

HelpSystems’ BuildIT conference will take place May 4 through 6. It will be an online-only affair, and feature more than 40 sessions covering a range of IT topics. Much of the event …
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Sundry Power Systems Cloud Announcements

April 26, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

April is generally a busy time for the Power Systems team, and not just for IBM i, but also for AIX and sometimes for Linux, too. In the spirit of Power Systems family unity, and in recognition of the fact that more than a few IBM i shops also have AIX and/or Linux in their shops, we wanted to tell you about some tweaks that Big Blue has made to the other platforms in the Power Systems family.

In announcement letter 221-099, IBM is making some tweaks to the Power Systems Enterprise Cloud Edition stack of software. The components …
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IBM Grows, Power Systems Slows

IBM Tweaks Power Systems Hardware Here And There

Guru: A Simple Script That Capitalizes on IBM i’s Open Source Capabilities

New IBM i Events Spin Up In May

Sundry Power Systems Cloud Announcements

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