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Power/Nvidia combo bags $325m supercomputer order
IBM’s OpenPower alliance with Nvidia has borne its first fruit in the form of a $325 million contract from the U.S. government’s Department of Energy to build two of the…
ByMulti-threaded replication speeds IFS backups
Maxava is gearing up to introduce multi-threaded IFS replication to help firms back up their ever-increasing mountains of data faster. According to the HA specialist, IBM i replication solutions have…
Is the new HMC interface enhanced or not?
IBM has rather quietly brought out a new interface to its Hardware Management Console (HMC). This became an option in V8R8.1 Service Pack1 of the HMC. IBM has called it…
BySoltis & Co keep the faith with iBelieve Tour
You’ll be able to catch some of the biggest names in the Power i industry around Europe in November. Dr Frank Soltis, father of the AS/400, Steve Will, IBM’s head…
APSU gets £7 million expansion fund
Major Power i reseller and managed service provider APSU has secured a £7 million investment from the UK’s Business Growth Fund (BGF). The Cirencester, Gloucestershire-headquartered firm aims to use the…
How to monitor client LPAR vSCSI disks in VIOS
Many customers use vSCSI disk-mapping in VIOS to present external storage volumes to their client LPARs. There are proponents of vSCSI, NPIV and Shared Storage Pools. These all work very…
ByOpinion: IBM needs more focus on Power
Call me biased, but isn’t one of the primary messages from IBM’s latest disappointing quarterly figures simply that it needs to sell more Power Systems? Big Blue certainly made no…
Proximity hosts modernisation and security sessions
British midrange specialist Proximity is to hold two consecutive events for IBM i users in November. The first, on Tuesday, November 25, will focus on apps modernisation and mobilisation. The…
AIX tech tip: which HMC does this LPAR belong to?
In a large Power environment where you have multiple Power Systems and perhaps hundreds of LPARs, there may well be multiple Hardware Management Consoles. When the environment is spread across…
GlobalFoundries gets $1.5 billion to make Power chips
IBM is to sell its processor manufacturing arm to GlobalFoundries. Big Blue announced today that it will pay GlobalFoundries $1.5 billion to take its chip factories in New York and…
All about you: PowerWire backs IBM i user survey
PowerWire.eu is backing a new survey of IBM i users and we urge all our readers to take part. PowerWire will share the European findings from HelpSystems’ new IBM i…
Tyan’s Palmetto is first non-IBM Power system
The first non-IBM Power processor-based servers will hit the streets later this month, courtesy of Taiwanese manufacturer Tyan. The announcement came yesterday despite rumours that such hardware, promised as a…