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  • German giant upgrades global SAP-on-i operations to Flex

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    Packaging equipment manufacturer Multivac has switched its SAP operations from traditional Power i servers to an IBM Flex System. The large German firm’s new setup consists of four modular p460 nodes, two with Power 7 processors and two with Power7+. The company has also consolidated assorted Windows apps to three Intel-based x240 nodes within its…

  • Steve Bradshaw to talk speedy queries at September conference

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    PowerWire‘s Steve Bradshaw will discuss his recent experiments with IBM i 7.2 at an i-UG event in September. i-UG is the new name for the recently merged British user groups NiSUG and CUA/Common UK. Its next big get-together is a one-day conference at the Mercure Norton Grange Hotel in Rochdale, Lancashire, on Thursday, September 11.…

  • Rumours abound about IBM’s processor sell-off

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    There has been continued speculation about the future of IBM’s chip-making division in the American press. Last week, U.S. news agency Bloomberg claimed that Big Blue couldn’t pay to be rid of the unit that produces Power processors. Yesterday, a report in the Poughkeepsie Journal cast doubt about the future of its East Fishkill processor…

  • I, for one, welcome our new Watson overlords

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    IBM researchers in New York have set up a lab where executives can talk over business problems with a Watson supercomputer. According to a report on the MIT Technology Review website this week, the prototype meeting area has a giant display on one wall and microphones in the ceiling. The souped-up Power System listens out…

  • Latest Power figures: reasons to be cheerful?

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    IBM reported its figures for the second quarter of 2014 in July and, once again, revenue from Power Systems was down. Its Systems and Technology division’s $3.3bn takings fell 11% year over year. Revenue from Power Systems fell 28%. In the previous couple of quarters, Power Systems revenues were down 22% and 31%. Such numbers…

  • Non-IBM Power iron to hit streets early next year

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    A report by New York-based IDG journalist Agam Shah claims that the first third-party servers licensed to use IBM’s Power architecture will be on the market early next year. Shah quoted Ken King, general manager, OpenPower alliances, at IBM’s Systems and Technology Group as saying that the first non-IBM Power servers will be used for…

  • A message from our new AIX expert, Anthony English

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    When I saw that PowerWire had hit the virtual newsstands, I naturally wondered whether it was short on material about AIX. As it turns out, the editor was more than happy to add some antipodean Unix articles to the mix. As an AIX techie from way back (I worked on the first commercial release, AIX…

  • AIX tech tip: make friends with the VIOS command syntax

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    If you are familiar with running commands on AIX, you may have logged onto the Virtual I/O Server and found the syntax frustrating. For example, the following command on AIX will list disks: lsdev –Cc disk But when you’re logged into the restricted shell on the VIOS (usually as the user ‘padmin’), that will give…

  • IBM’s processor sell-off may have stalled

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    IBM may not be selling its processor businesses to GlobalFoundries after all, according to a Bloomberg report. On Friday, the American news agency posted a story that said IBM had walked away from the negotiating table because GlobalFoundries’ offer for its chip operation was too small. Neither party had been willing to comment either way.…

  • PowerLinux: Everything you needed to know about little endian…

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    If, like me, you’ve been scratching your head a little about recent changes to the PowerLinux landscape, then IBM’s Jeff Scheel has all the lowdown you need. Looking around the Power Systems blogoshpere, it would seem that I’m not the only one who has found recent discussions about big endian and little endian Linux slightly…

  • IBM’s Power processor sell-off “imminent”

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    IBM is rumoured to be on the brink of selling its Power processor manufacturing business. According to reports in American media outlets, Big Blue is going to offload its entire chip-making arm to California-headquartered GlobalFoundries. GlobalFoundries was spun out of AMD in 2009 and is owned by the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. The company may…

  • Power System conference dates in UK, Sweden, Hungary, Germany, more…

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    Here’s our latest round-up of events around Europe and beyond. If you have a conference, seminar or workshop that you would like to see listed on PowerWire, please get in touch. European Events APSU Technology Showcase July 9, 2014 Canary Wharf, London (See news story on PowerWire) APSU Technology Showcase September 16, 2014 Silverstone racing…