Author: Staff Reporter
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Has IBM halted Power’s sales slide?
IBM reported its latest quarterly results this week and, for a change, there was actually something to cheer about for Power people. If one looked beyond the corporation’s generally lacklustre headline figures, it seemed that it had finally stopped the downward spiral of its Power p and Power i server sales. Admittedly, one had to…
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ReadySpace launches $300-per-month AIX cloud
An ambitious Southeast Asian cloud specialist has launched a new service based on Power Systems running AIX and Linux. Singapore-headquartered ReadySpace is offering instances of AIX from $300 (U.S.) per month. To launch the service, the company is giving subscribers 50% off their first month. In a statement released today, David Loke, ReadySpace CEO (pictured,…
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Webinar to dissect Europe’s IBM i market
PowerWire will team up with HelpSystems on May 7 to present a live webinar and you are invited. With the self-explanatory title “IBM i Marketplace Survey Reveals Key Differences between Europe and the Rest of the World” the online session will feature Help’s Tom Huntington and PowerWire’s illustrious editor Seamus Quinn. The webinar will be…
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AIX tech tip: a tribute to AIX devices
When you have a device connected to AIX, such as a disk or a tape drive, you can discover it using cfgmgr. As you’d expect, it will have the default parameters that are used for the device driver. Sometimes you’ll want to change these parameters – usually to allow you to tune the device for…
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AIX tech tip: How to scan new devices with a single command
There are things I really love about virtualisation for Power Systems. I probably appreciate some things more than other people do because I got to see how things used to work many years ago. A combination of physical and virtual enhancements has made life a lot easier than it used to be. I remember when…
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IBM i cloud app wins logistics award
British midrange specialist Proximity has won a big logistics industry award with an IBM i-based cloud solution. At the SHD Logistics annual awards dinner last week, Proximity scooped the top spot in the magazine/website’s innovation technology category. The Leeds-headquartered firm won the accolade for its work with children’s’ bed manufacturer Scandinavian House, based in Shipley,…
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OpenPower conference bears East Asian fruit
OpenPower Foundation members showed off some potentially game-changing new hardware at their first full conference in San Jose, California, last week. The Open Power consortium was formed by IBM in August, 2013, in an attempt to create a renewed ecosystem around its Power processor technology. From four original partners, the group has grown to 110…
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Europeans like it bigger, newer and with more Linux
HelpSystems’ first IBM i Marketplace Survey reveals that Europeans run bigger boxes, use more AIX and Linux and are keener on VIOS than their North American counterparts. The survey was run in conjunction with our good friends at IT Jungle in the States and, in October, PowerWire got involved too. You can check out the…
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New product round-up: IFS gets multi-threaded replication and better monitoring
As previewed exclusively by PowerWire back in November last year, Maxava has released a new version of Maxava HA with fully dynamic multi-threaded IFS replication. Replication speeds have long been an Achilles heel for some real-time solutions that have only been able to run IBM i IFS replication in a single-thread mode or with very…
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WebSphere outpaces WebLogic on Power and Intel
IBM’s WebSphere Application Server on Power8 leaves Oracle’s equivalent offerings standing when it comes to speed, according to new figures. In the latest SPEC benchmarking tests, WebSphere Application Server 8.5.5.2 running on a 24-core Power S824 beat WebLogic 12.1.3 Server running on a 32-core Oracle SPARC T5-2 by 76% per core. I.T.’s big beasts are…
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Opinion: Toy Story or Rise of The Machines?
Behold, your toddler’s next Power System client device will be a Watson-connected toy dinosaur. But am I the only one who finds the idea of letting a global megacorp’s A.I. communicate directly with our children slightly creepy? I ask because among this week’s media coverage of start-up toy firm Elemental Path’s plans to do just…
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German i developer improves cross-platform testing
A German IBM i-based developer has cut errors and test times with Rational Quality Manager. Boppard-based Ehrhardt + Partner specialises in warehouse management and transport logistics solutions. But while it does all its original coding on the Power i, it needs to test its software in different environments. In a new report from IBM, Jens…