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Former Power Systems GM Joins FalconStor For IBM i Push

February 7, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Virtual tape library software provider FalconStor, which has been in the market for more than two decades, has tapped a former manager of IBM’s Power Systems division – namely Doug Balog, who ran Power Systems from 2013 through 2017 – as a strategic advisor as it begins a more aggressive push into the IBM i market.

Balog is a familiar to long-time readers of The Four Hundred, of course. He ran System x server development at IBM from June 2004 through December 2009, significantly the BladeCenter converged blade server platform, then did a few years running IBM’s storage business, …
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IBM Grows, Power Systems Slows

April 26, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The good news, if you are a customer of IBM who wants Big Blue to stick around in the systems business, is that IBM actually saw some growth in its overall business for the first time in two years. This growth was driven in large part by its System z mainframe line, in the first quarter of 2021. The less than good news – but not unexpected – is that the Power Systems business continued to shrink as customers await high-end Power10 systems later this year and low-end Power10 machines early next year.

In the quarter ended in March, IBM’s …
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Just How Big Is The Whole Power Systems Business?

September 14, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan

There may be a lot of economic uncertainty out there in the world, due to medical and political uncertainty that seems to be all over the globe, but there is one thing you can count on: Companies need more compute capacity to do ever-more intricate processing.

In the second quarter ended in June, the server market turned in one of the best quarters in its history – even when you consider the inflation adjusted revenues from the peak Dot-Com Boom nearly two decades ago as 2000 was coming to a close. According to the research done by IDC, server spending …
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The Path Truly Opens To Alternate Power CPUs, But Is It Enough?

July 14, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan

If you have a few tens of millions of dollars to spare and you want to set up a foundry partnership with either Globalfoundries for 14 nanometer chip making technologies or with Samsung for 7 nanometer technologies and then create your own Power processor, things just got a little bit easier. Big Blue has open sourced one of its Power cores through the OpenPower foundation and now anybody and everybody can grab it and design a new central processing unit around that core.

Don’t get too excited, but get a little excited. Let me explain.

We still believe in the …
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Google Close to Launching IBM i Cloud Service, Will Says

June 4, 2018 Alex Woodie

One of the laments of Power chip types everywhere is the lack of a public cloud service for Power applications. While Linux and Windows folks can run their X86 workloads on multiple public clouds, the opportunities for hosting IBM i, AIX, or Power Linux workloads are limited to so-called private clouds. But according to IBM i chief architect Steve Will, that could soon be changing.

While neither IBM nor Google have made any official announcements about Google running IBM i in its public cloud, Will talked openly about the relationship between the two tech giants at COMMON‘s PowerUp conference …
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Former Power Systems GM Joins FalconStor For IBM i Push

IBM Grows, Power Systems Slows

Just How Big Is The Whole Power Systems Business?

The Path Truly Opens To Alternate Power CPUs, But Is It Enough?

Google Close to Launching IBM i Cloud Service, Will Says

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