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Tandberg Bankruptcy Leaves A Hole In IBM Power Storage

June 2, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan

A problem has been brewing for back and archiving needs for entry and some midrange IBM i shops, and we did not know about it until the spit hit the fan last week. Had we known earlier, we could have warned you. And maybe Big Blue could have and should have warned you directly more immediately a few months ago instead of in the announcement that came out last week and that did not actually explain what was going on even a little bit.

In announcement letter AD25-0836, dated May 27, IBM said that effective that day it was …
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Big Blue Taps FalconStor To Move Data To PowerVS Cloud And Protect It

August 22, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

When IBM i shops want to move some or all of their applications to the cloud, they have a lot of options. But there is still only one cloud that is designed and run by the same company that actually makes the Power Systems server and the IBM i operating system and database platform. And that, of course, is the Power Systems Virtual Server, colloquially known as PowerVS these days.

Over the longest of hauls, we expect that a fair number of IBM i shops will use the cloud in some capacity, and some will move their infrastructure entirely to …
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