• Power Systems Turns In Another Great Quarter

  November 2, 2026 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  We have been saying for some time that we think that Big Blue can get the Power Systems hardware business, including servers and operating systems but not including various kinds of tech support, to rise above $2 billion in annual sales. And by all indications, now that IBM has turned in three of the four quarters for the year, it looks like 2026 will indeed be that year.

  “Storage delivered record revenue growth and continue to gain market share with broad-based demand across Flash, Fusion, tape and IBM Z storage,” explained James Kavanaugh, IBM’s chief financial officer, explained on a …

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• Fresche Launches OpsIQ, a Free AI-Based Operation Assistant for IBM i

  October 26, 2026 Alex Woodie

  IBM i developers have embraced AI-based coding tools, such as IBM’s Bob and Anthropic’s Claude Code, but IBM i administrators so far haven’t benefited from the AI productivity boost in the same way. That is starting to change, and one of the first AI-based administrative helpers is a free tool launched recently by Fresche called OpsIQ.

  OpsIQ is an AI assistant designed to help IBM i users get answers to questions about their systems. It is currently a read-only tool for helping users interrogate the system for information about server configurations, the state of jobs, and errors or alerts, which …

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• IBM Goes GA With Power Autonomous Operations

  October 12, 2026 Alex Woodie

  IBM is now shipping Power Autonomous Operations, a new product that uses AI to help customers manage and optimize their Power environments with little to no human involvement. In addition to lowering the manual effort for administrators, the product provides a natural language interface for administrators, which IBM says lowers operational burden and accelerates problem resolution.

  Big Blue unveiled Power Autonomous Operations in July when it made its delayed Spring Technology Refresh (TR) for IBM i and announced the Power S1112 entry-level machine. It started shipping Autonomous Ops on September 23.

  Just as Bob is helping to accelerate productivity of …

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• Start Where the Data Lives: Best Practices for Taking IBM i Into AI

  October 5, 2026 Doug McMaster Ron Venzin and Gregg Rohaly

  The AI conversation has arrived at the IBM i shop, and in most cases, it did not come in through the computer room door. It came down from the boardroom, or over from finance, or sideways from a sales vice president who watched a demo at a conference and wants to know why the company cannot ask its own order history a question in plain English. The IBM i manager is then handed a question that sounds technical but is strategic: can our core platform play in this, or do we need to replace it to get there?

  That is …

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• PowerSC: Your One-Stop Shop For Security On IBM i – And Beyond

  September 21, 2026 Alex Woodie

  Keeping on top of changing security threats is difficult, to say the least. It is even harder to map changing threats to changing configurations on your IBM i server. When your IT network also includes AIX and Linux systems, the difficulty gets multiplied. For these types of environments, IBM provides a tool called PowerSC.

  When IBM launched PowerSC (which stands for security and compliance) as an IBM Lab Services product way back in 2010, it was primarily designed for setting up security configurations and running audits on AIX. That is not the case today, as the tool provides a plethora …

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• Finally: Some Pricing Information On The Power S1112 Entry Server

  September 14, 2026 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  UPDATED: The entry “Bonnell+” Power S1112 server based on the Power11 processor – the only machine that has a P05 software tier for the IBM i operating system – has been shipping for six weeks now, and I have been digging around trying to get detailed, feature-level pricing for the new machine. I have yet to find that fine-grained pricing that I love to have my hands on, but I did get some help from some friends in the reseller community to get current prices for six different configurations of the Power S1112 – two tower configurations and four rack …

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• Will Power Chips Get A Converged Arm Instruction Set Like Z Mainframe CPUs?

  August 31, 2026 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  One a decade for the past six decades, Big Blue launches an effort to converge its diverse system architectures. It almost never works, with the exception of the launch of the System/360 mainframes in April 1964 and the AS/400 minicomputers in June 1988. And to be fair, the AS/400 was itself based in part on technologies created in a failed convergence effort.

  Back in 1986, the “Fort Knox” project sought to converge the System/4300 air-cooled, entry mainframe lines with the System/38 (from 1978) and the System/36 (from 1983), and it failed. But in the failure, the Rochester Labs took some …

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• Thinking About Moving IBM i To The Cloud? Don’t Start With The Quote

  August 31, 2026 Josh Patterson

  We get asked a deceptively simple question all the time: “What would it cost to move our IBM i environment to the cloud?”

  It sounds like a pricing question. Usually, it isn’t. Before we start talking about cores, memory, storage, or monthly costs, there’s a much more important question to answer: Why are you considering cloud in the first place?

  Maybe your Power server is approaching a refresh. Maybe your data center contract is ending. Maybe an experienced IBM i administrator is retiring. Maybe your disaster recovery strategy no longer meets the business’s needs. Or perhaps your organization has adopted …

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• It’s D-Day For Cybersecurity, AI Firms Warn

  August 31, 2026 Alex Woodie

  The idea of sophisticated AI agents coordinating among themselves to launch a cyberattack on a major corporation sounds like something out of a science fiction novel. But it actually occurred earlier this year, and the agentic attacks will get more sophisticated soon if we don’t act swiftly to shore up defenses in legacy systems (like IBM i), a group of AI firms warned this month.

  In an open letter, the leaders of 100 AI companies, including IBM, Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI, warned that the recent episodes of AI agents going rogue and launching sophisticated attacks on …

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• FalconStor Moved To The Blue Lagoon, And Is Poised For Growth Because Of It

  August 10, 2026 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Way back in the Dot Com boom, when FalconStor was founded, it was one of the early innovators of what we have come to know as software-defined storage and software-defined networking as well as disaggregated storage. These terms were not even coined until a decade after FalconStor was doing it in its first product, called IPStor, which is the foundation of the various products that the company still sells today.

  Like many companies, including IBM itself, FalconStor had some self-imposed business issues and financial challenges over the years – IBM in the late 1980s and the early 1990s, FalconStor in …

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