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2025: An IBM i Year In Review

January 12, 2026 Alex Woodie

The calendar has flipped over into the new year, bringing with it hope that the next twelve months will unfold in a positive way. It’s also a good time to reflect on what 2025 brought to the IBM i community, and to remember the big news events that occurred in our little sector of the IT market.

January

IBM hired a new vice president of product management for the Power Systems business. Bargav Balakrishnan was promoted to the position, which was previously held by Steve Sibley. Balakrishnan, who has a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, …
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Stacking Up Entry IBM i-Power11 Systems Against Windows X86 Platforms

December 1, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Having spent the past several weeks going over the hardware and software costs and performance of systems in the IBM i P10 and P20 software tiers. We had an admittedly small sample, but one that we could get Big Blue’s pricing information for, which is hard to come by. This week we wanted to see how those entry P10-class and P20-class machines stack up against modern X86 servers based on Intel’s latest Xeon 6 systems running a Windows Server stack that was functionally equivalent to the IBM i stack.

So we did a little spreadsheet work on your behalf.

Our …
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Stacking Up Power10 And Power11 Systems Price/Performance

November 17, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan

We have been on the hunt to get you pricing on entry Power11 machines in the P10 and P20 IBM i software tiers to give you a sense of the relative price/performance of the Power11 machines compared to their Power10 predecessors. There are dozens of possible configurations of entry, midrange, and enterprise machines in these two families, and without an official and public price list, as Big Blue provided for many years, it is very difficult for even business partners to get pricing.

In fact, they need to use IBM’s official configurator, and they need to have a Power System …
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Bang For The Buck On Entry Power10 And Power11 Machines

November 10, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Back in early October, after IBM released detailed performance specifications for Power11 machines running IBM i, we put together a detailed matrix of processor configurations from Power8 through Power11 machines, marking every different processor combination for all machines. There are dozens of possible server form factor and processor configurations across those four generations of machines, and it would be very difficult to get pricing information out of Big Blue for all of them.

We poked around the IBM site for Power10 many months ago ahead of the Power11 announcements in July and then did it again after the Power11 …
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Stacking Up Power11 Entry Server Performance To Older Iron

October 6, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Here we are heading into the fall and if you have budget set aside for a new system or an upgrade, now is the time to start thinking about spending it. For customers buying mainstream P10-class and P20-class systems, the Power11 machines that have been out for a few months now and are the machines you will need to consider. And if you have older Power8 or Power9 iron, you might even be considering an upgrade to a Power10.

With all of this in mind, we have put together the mother of all performance tables to compare the current and …
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Power11 Entry Machines: The Power S1124 And Power L1124

July 21, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan

For several decades, a two-socket server was the workhorse machine in most datacenters, whether they were running a database machine for transaction processing or a scale-out cluster of machines for distributed Web applications and their related back-ends. And for many OS/400 and IBM i shops, the two-socket machine was the one that provided the right balance of compute and storage expansion and density.

But, over the years, as Power processor cores have gotten more powerful, customers have needed fewer and fewer cores to run their relatively modest (by comparison) and relatively static (they grow along with the business, but not …
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2025: An IBM i Year In Review

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Stacking Up Entry IBM i-Power11 Systems Against Windows X86 Platforms

Stacking Up Power10 And Power11 Systems Price/Performance

Bang For The Buck On Entry Power10 And Power11 Machines

Stacking Up Power11 Entry Server Performance To Older Iron

Power11 Entry Machines: The Power S1124 And Power L1124

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