IBM i Power8 Migrations Flourish, Say Service Providers
August 22, 2016 Dan Burger
IBM‘s second quarter financial report was an icy description of Power Systems revenue. It exposed a shivering 24 percent decline compared to a year earlier. Despite that biting insight, there’s a warm glow in the midrange market that is predicted to continue through the third quarter. Migrations to Power8 boxes are finding momentum in the IBM i-dominated small to midsize market, where purchases have been delayed, but are now occurring at an accelerated pace. With hardware migrations comes downtime, so it’s interesting to take a peek at how the migration/downtime dilemma is being handled. Bob Johnson, an executive vice |