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 …