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Looks Like July 12 For Power10 Announcements, Maybe July 27 for Shipments

June 13, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Those of us who have been waiting for the entry and midrange Power10 machines to be announced and start shipping, and thus beginning a new hardware cycle and a new opportunity to get IBM i shops on current hardware and software, will not have to wait long.

According to the latest rumors, it looks like the announcements of the entry Power10 machines – to be known as the Power S1014, the Power S1022s, the Power S1022, the Power L1022, the Power S1024, and the Power L1024 – and the Power E1050 midrange machine will happen on July 12. Which, as …
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Simplified IBM i Stack Bundling Ahead Of Subscription Pricing

May 16, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

There are a bunch of things that were announced on May 3 by IBM ahead of the POWERUp 2022 conference coming later this month and well ahead of the launch of entry and midrange Power10 machines in July. One of them was IBM i 7.5, and the other was the Modernization Engine for Lifecycle Integration, otherwise known as Merlin, for transforming old RPG code into free format RPG code.

The third thing, which IBM has been talking around for a while and is getting more serious about is offering IBM i hardware and software on a subscription basis rather than …
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Building A More Perfect IBM i Cloud On Power10 Iron

January 24, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

As we get closer to the launch of the entry and midrange Power10 machines, we can’t help but think about the innovative uses that these machines might be put to. We think, for instance, that these machines could be the foundation of a new generation – and a new kind – of IBM i cloud based on a mix of entry one-socket Power S1021 and two-socket Power S1022, and Power S1024 machines augmented in a very special way with four-socket Power E1050s.

To one way of thinking, the easiest way to build a big cloud capable of supporting thousands of …
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Recent IBM i Redbook Roundup

January 17, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Say what you will about IBM, but it puts out a lot of technical information compared to its peers in the systems business, and always has. The techies at Big Blue and its many business partners expend a great deal of effort to put good technical information about Power Systems servers and the IBM i platform out there to help people better understand, run, and manage their applications and systems.

It can be hard to keep up with it all, so we perused the IBM Redbook library on your behalf and now present to you a roundup of the most …
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Looks Like July 12 For Power10 Announcements, Maybe July 27 for Shipments

Simplified IBM i Stack Bundling Ahead Of Subscription Pricing

Building A More Perfect IBM i Cloud On Power10 Iron

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