TFH Volume: 33 Issue: 43 Archives

Big Blue’s New “WebSpheres” To Surf The Container And AI Waves

July 24, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Without question, there is a lot of money that can be made on AI training and inference, as is aptly shown by the financial results of Nvidia. That company, which is the darling of Wall Street these days, has gone from datacenter wannabe to datacenter giant in the course of a decade and a half. It has been fascinating to watch, but it is as much the result of lucky timing as hard work, as Jensen Huang, the company’s co-founder and chief executive officer, admitted from the beginning.

Nvidia has been working on parallel computing architectures for accelerating HPC workloads …
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Serious New IBM i Vulns Exposed by Silent Signal – More On the Way

July 24, 2023 Alex Woodie

Two new vulnerabilities in core components of the IBM i operating system were disclosed by IBM last week, including one that impacts Performance Tools and another in Facsimile Support for i. Both vulnerabilities were discovered by Silent Signal, the Hungarian firm that discovered the recent DDM vulnerability, and both are considered high risk flaws that should be patched immediately.

More security flaws exist in IBM i that will be exposed in the months to come, the company says.

The first new flaw, CVE-2023-30988, pertains to a local privilege escalation vulnerability discovered in Facsimile Support for i, a native IBM …
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Power Systems Down A Bit, But Holding Steady In Q2

July 24, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Considering that we are over a year into the Power10 entry and midrange server upgrade cycle, and almost two years into the Power10 high-end cycle, the fact that the Power Systems server business is only down a few points in the second quarter is, well, normal. As in the old normal where things have a natural ebb and flow and the business is not just in a kind of 45 degree decline like we saw a decade ago.

This is what happens when Big Blue sticks to its enterprise computing knitting and is not distracted by the money-losing proposition of …
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The Last Power8 Machine Gets End Of Service Notice

July 24, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Back in November 2022, amongst a slew of other machinery, customers using the vast majority of the Power Systems servers based on the Power8 processor were warned that IBM was cutting off its maintenance and support for these machines effective between March and October 2024. That may sound like a long time from now, but it really isn’t when you have to hustle a system upgrade, complete with application software, through the budgetary and testing hoops.

We wrote about those Power8 system withdrawals here, and in case you need to dig out the notice again, the new IBM Documentation system …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 30

July 24, 2023 Doug Bidwell

The security vulnerabilities in the IBM i software stack are coming in waves. This week, there are three more to report, two of which we detail separately in this issue.

First, we have Security Bulletin: IBM Facsimile Support for i is vulnerable to local privilege escalation (CVE-2023-30988), which you can find out more about here. The issue can be fixed by applying a PTF to IBM i. IBM i releases 7.5, 7.4, 7.3, and 7.2 installed with 5798-FAX version V5R8M0 will be fixed. IBM i Release, 5798-FAX,V5R8M0 PTF Number SI83583 for 7.5, 7.4, 7.3, 7.2 – read the cover …
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Big Blue’s New “WebSpheres” To Surf The Container And AI Waves

Serious New IBM i Vulns Exposed by Silent Signal – More On the Way

Power Systems Down A Bit, But Holding Steady In Q2

The Last Power8 Machine Gets End Of Service Notice

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 30

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