IBM has announced that SAP HANA will now run on Power 8 hardware on SuSE Linux. It has also launched two Power System Solution Editions specifically for running SAP’s in-memory BI database. The new Solution Editions for SAP HANA come in two configurations. The first is based on the S824 with 24 Power8 cores and…

Big Blue has broadened its Power Systems range with the introduction of a new E850 model. But while other recently introduced models like the E880 and E870 can run AIX, IBM i and Linux, the E850 will run AIX and Linux only, causing eyebrows to be raised. The peerless Timothy Prickett Morgan makes some very…

It was technical refresh time for our favourite operating system last week when Big Blue released IBM i 7.2 TR 2 and IBM i 7.1 TR 10. Key announcements included the introduction of the Python programming language, the availability of Java 8 and the introduction of JSON Store to DB2 (you can read IBM’s full…

UK Power i user group i-UG has announced the dates of its biggest conference of the year. International i-Power 2015 will take place at the Wyboston Lakes Executive Centre (pictured) in Wyboston, Bedfordshire, on September 9 and 10. PowerWire is media sponsor. Before that, on Tuesday May 19, i-UG will convene at major Power Systems…

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…

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,…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…