by Ron Gordon | Dec 8, 2017 | Enterprise Systems
Ron Gordon Director – Power Systems The POWER9 processor was publicly announced in 2016. On December 5, IBM announced the first POWER9-based system, the AC922, with general availability December 22, 2017. The AC stands for Accelerated Computing because of the...
by Ron Gordon | Nov 30, 2017 | Software
Ron Gordon Director – Power Systems There is no doubt that customers are looking at “cloud” to provide automation, cost savings, and optimization of resources. Using a “public cloud,” while good, does not necessarily provide the security, performance, nor...
by Ron Gordon | Oct 26, 2017 | Enterprise Systems
Ron Gordon Director – Power Systems IBM Power Systems made a series of software functional changes, but it seems they did it quite quietly, as I see that not many users or support staff are aware of these announcements. Just returning from a very informative and...
by Ron Gordon | Oct 4, 2017 | Enterprise Systems
Ron Gordon Director – Power Systems IBM recently announced a change in the acquisition and enablement of COD cores and memory. This change will significantly improve your usability and enablement of COD cores and memory for Power Systems. Historically, the...
by Ron Gordon | Sep 14, 2017 | Enterprise Systems
Ron Gordon Director – Power Systems In August 2017, RedHat released RedHat Enterprise Linux 7.4 and its support for Power Systems. This release, while still at the 3.10 kernel level, has new features and add-ons that will provide both more support that customers...