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What Big Blue’s HashiCorp Buy Might Mean For The IBM i Platform

May 6, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Here is a riddle for you, or even two. Why did IBM buy systems software maker HashiCorp for $6.4 billion? And what on Earth, if anything, will this mean for IBM i customers, or even Power Systems customers in general?

If you want to get a deeper background into HashiCorp, check out the Related Stories link at the bottom of this story for the detailed analysis I have done on the company over at The Next Platform. In the meantime, a short overview of HashiCorp and its tools is in order.

Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar, the co-founders of …
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IBM Brings OpenShift Cluster Management Native On Power Iron

March 14, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

If you went out to GitHub and grabbed the source code for the Kubernetes cloud controller, you could compile it in C/C++ or set up the runtimes for the Python chunks of it, and you would probably find some Go buried in there and you could the toolchain and get the raw Kubernetes to work on Linux partitions; you might even be able to get it to run natively on AIX, and if you were really clever, you might even be able to get it to run on IBM i.

But you wouldn’t have very much that was useful given …
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Entry Server Bang For The Buck, IBM i Versus Red Hat Linux

November 11, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan

In last week’s issue, we did a competitive analysis of the entry, single-socket Power S914 machines running IBM i against Dell PowerEdge servers using various Intel Xeon processors as well as an AMD Epyc chip running a Windows Server and SQL Server stack from Microsoft. This week, and particularly in the wake of IBM’s recent acquisition of Red Hat, we are looking at how entry IBM i platforms rate in terms of cost and performance against X86 machines running a Linux stack and an appropriate open source relational database that has enterprise support.

Just as a recap from last week’s …
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The Transition To RHEL 8 Begins On Power Systems

June 10, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan

If it is not already obvious to you, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is going to be the default and preferred variant of the Linux operating system that will be available on IBM’s Power Systems and System z servers at some point in the not-too-distant future when Big Blue’s $34 billion acquisition of the commercial Linux distributor closes.

As we pointed out last fall when the deal was announced, we don’t know precisely how IBM will rectify some of the overlaps between the two product lines after the deal closes. What will IBM will do with the WebSphere and JBoss Web …
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IBM Gives A Peek Of The Future At POWERUp 2019

May 20, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan

It would not be a COMMON, or even a POWERUp, conference without some glimpse into the future by IBM to give customers of its Power Systems line a sense of what lies ahead near the horizon. By doing so, Big Blue can provide comfort to customers that it is working on future technologies and services without revealing its hand too much to competitors.

Steve Sibley, vice president of offerings for the Cognitive Systems division, which is the part of IBM that makes and sells Power Systems iron, participated in the opening session of the POWERUp 2019 conference in Anaheim on …
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IBM Winds Down PowerVM V2, Nudges Customers To PowerVM V3

November 12, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan

It may not occur to you, but the PowerVM server virtualization hypervisor that Big Blue created for Power Systems servers has a version just like every other piece of software in the world, and like all software, it ages and eventually it is retired from the field in lieu of more modern code.

In announcement letter 918-129, IBM let it be known that PowerVM V2, of which there were three releases, will be withdrawn from marketing on February 19, 2019 and will have its support withdrawn on September 30, 2020. That may seem like a long time away from …
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Getting Hyper And Converged With IBM i

May 14, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The hallmark of the System/38 and its progeny, the AS/400, iSeries, System i, and IBM i platforms, is that these machines came fully integrated with all of the operating system, database, management, and development tools necessary to run a modern business. Integrated did not mean that these pieces were all sold as a single bundle, mind you, but they snapped together with good fit and finish and allowed companies to not have to become masters of the system code and could therefore be craftsman for the application code that actually ran the business.

The AS/400 really set the pace for …
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What Big Blue’s HashiCorp Buy Might Mean For The IBM i Platform

IBM Brings OpenShift Cluster Management Native On Power Iron

Entry Server Bang For The Buck, IBM i Versus Red Hat Linux

The Transition To RHEL 8 Begins On Power Systems

IBM Gives A Peek Of The Future At POWERUp 2019

IBM Winds Down PowerVM V2, Nudges Customers To PowerVM V3

Getting Hyper And Converged With IBM i

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