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An IBM i Year In Review

December 10, 2018 Alex Woodie

Another year is just about wrapped up for us here at IT Jungle. That means it’s time to ease off the news pedal just a tad and enter into a retrospective mood, with the hope of gaining some perspective on where we’ve been in 2018 and perhaps how we’ll start off 2019.

It all started off rather poorly, way back in. . .

January

. . . when the big news was about Spectre and Meltdown, the two vulnerabilities that brought everybody rudely back to the real world following the New Year’s celebration. Nearly all types of processors, including …
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Some Insight Into The IBM i On Power Systems Base

December 3, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan

IBM is pretty secretive about its systems business, but is really no worse than its peers in this regard. Big Blue wants to get enough information out there to keep customers comfortable about the future, keep Wall Street happy about its revenues and prospects for the immediate future (meaning one to three quarters out), and keep its competitors from getting too much insight into how it is doing in the systems racket.

Every now and then, we get some insight into how the Power Systems business is doing, and as part of a discussion we had recently about upgrade and …
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Can ERP Vendors Deliver On Industry 4.0 Expectations?

October 1, 2018 Alex Woodie

In the IT business, innovation is king. If you fail to keep up, you run the risk of falling behind and becoming stale. There’s where ERP as a product category found itself thanks to the advent of cloud computing, and now we’re on the cusp of finding out if the ERP market can deliver on the next set of emerging capabilities — machine learning, artificial intelligence, and IoT – which industry watchers have termed Industry 4.0.

We’re at an interesting inflection point in enterprise software at the moment, in particular how well-established players react to rapid technological innovation. In the …
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IBM’s Own Positioning Of Power Systems Revealed

September 24, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan

We don’t get a lot of data about how the Power Systems business is doing out of Big Blue these days, and we get even less, in terms of specifics, about the markets that IBM is chasing and how well or poorly it thinks it is doing in this regard. We get a snippet here and there from the quarterly results, we get some insight from the quarterly market trackers from IDC and Gartner, but not much else.

Digging around through some documents relating to the Power9 rollout, we stumbled across a few interesting charts that gives us at least …
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Inside IBM’s SAP HANA On Power Playbook

May 21, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The Power Systems line is in transition right now, making the jump from Power8 to Power9 processors, and yet the company wants to continue selling applications without having customers wait for the newer chip to be available across the entire Power Systems portfolio. This is a particular problem when it comes to the HANA in-memory database on Power Systems, which IBM is eager to sell given the higher memory capacity and bandwidth that Power9 offers compared to the Xeon processors from Intel.

To help business partners that are peddling SAP suites on Power, which includes the IBM i platform, in …
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IBM Wheels And Deals To Boost Power System Sales

May 7, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan

A lot of the revenue that comes to the Power Systems division – and perhaps the bulk of it if history and the changed nature of the product line is any guide – comes from relatively big iron machines, at least by IBM i standards for what is little, middle, and big iron. And IBM needs to do something here in early 2018 to keep customers of big iron boxes investing while it prepares to ship machines with four sockets or more of the Power9 processors under a schedule that we told you about back in February and that seems …
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At Long Last, IBM i Finally Gets Power9

February 14, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The most important part of the Power9 rollout for the vast majority of IBM i customers has finally happened: Big Blue has lifted the veil on the Power9-based “ZZ” systems that we have been hearing about for a few months now and that are being delivered in the Power S914, Power S922, and Power S924 servers.

These are three of the six machines based on the ZZ design, and they are the only ones that can IBM i without any restrictions. Two other machines, which are called the Power H922 and Power H924, were created explicitly to run SAP’s HANA …
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An IBM i Year In Review

January

Some Insight Into The IBM i On Power Systems Base

Can ERP Vendors Deliver On Industry 4.0 Expectations?

IBM’s Own Positioning Of Power Systems Revealed

Inside IBM’s SAP HANA On Power Playbook

IBM Wheels And Deals To Boost Power System Sales

At Long Last, IBM i Finally Gets Power9

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