Big Blue At Your Power Systems Service

February 14, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

IBM may have spun off its managed services and system hosting businesses into Kyndryl, but it still has a sizable remaining technical support, systems integration, technology consulting, business transformation, and application operations business that represents close to 40 percent of its revenues. And so it is very keen on selling Power Systems shops all kinds of services.

To that end, IBM made two announcements last week regarding the Power Systems hardware platform.

The first, in announcement letter 222-033, is a new plan to offer Software Maintenance – what IBM i shops and resellers and even IBM itself usually call …