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Some Insight Into The IBM i On Power Systems Base

December 3, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan

IBM is pretty secretive about its systems business, but is really no worse than its peers in this regard. Big Blue wants to get enough information out there to keep customers comfortable about the future, keep Wall Street happy about its revenues and prospects for the immediate future (meaning one to three quarters out), and keep its competitors from getting too much insight into how it is doing in the systems racket.

Every now and then, we get some insight into how the Power Systems business is doing, and as part of a discussion we had recently about upgrade and …
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IBM’s Systems Group On The Financial Rebound

January 22, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan

We like to start with the good news here in 2018, and the good news is that IBM had a very good quarter in its systems business, so we can all start breathing a little easier and Hitachi can put that checkbook away because Big Blue ain’t going to be selling off its System z and Power Systems business any time soon.

(We are joking there. We think. . . . and hope.)

In the final quarter of 2017 ended in December, the mainframe saw sales shoot up 71 percent thanks to the System z14 refresh that started in …
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