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IBM To Chase Oracle Accounts With 24-Core Power S1014

December 19, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

If you are selling enterprise-grade servers that are explicitly designed to be data threshers running relational databases, then you have to deal with Oracle. Of course, Oracle does not have much of a server business of its own these days, not like it dreamed of having when it bought Sun Microsystems nearly a decade and a half ago.

Oracle still sells its Oracle X9-2 and X9-2L two-socket servers based on Intel “Ice Lake” Xeon SPs as well as its ancient Sparc T8 and M8 servers from nearly a decade ago. And it still says its Exadata database clusters, which compete …
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2022: An IBM i Year In Review: Part 2

December 19, 2022 Alex Woodie

In part one of this now annual recap of the IBM i world that we do here at IT Jungle, we reminisced on the biggest stories of the first six months of the year. There was quite a bit going on, with the launch of IBM i 7.5 and more. But getting into the last half of the year – now that’s where the real action began.

July

The first full month of summer started off with a bang when IBM, after much anticipation, unveiled the long-awaited scale-out Power10 machines. The Power10 rollout included the S1014, with …
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OK, This Really Is The Last Of Power Systems Announcements For 2022

December 19, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

We are winding down for 2022, and you are very likely doing the same. There are a few more things we need to go over to close out the year.

In announcement 122-127, from December 13, IBM has announced that its IBM i subscription offering, which is paired with the subscription-priced Power S1014 that was hinted at during the July announcements and fully fleshed out in September.

With the changes, IBM is delivering three year and five year terms for initial subscription contracts, complementing the one year and four year contracts that were initially available. These three-year and five-year …
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Happy Holidays To All Of You From All Of Us

December 19, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

After two years in pandemic-induced isolation, things got back to something close to normal in 2022. Which was a relief as well as a bit exasperating. It is hard to know what to trust as any trend anymore.

For my family, which got whacked by “Delta” SAR-CoV-2 back in December 2019 after I took the three older kids to Chinatown in New York City for the holidays, we managed to avoid it since lock down in March 2020. But just before traveling to see family on Thanksgiving, where we have several immunocompromised relatives, we got the “Omicron” variant and had …
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IBM To Chase Oracle Accounts With 24-Core Power S1014

2022: An IBM i Year In Review: Part 2

July

OK, This Really Is The Last Of Power Systems Announcements For 2022

Happy Holidays To All Of You From All Of Us

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