by Ron Gordon | Oct 12, 2016 | Enterprise Systems
Ron Gordon Director – Power Systems At Edge 2016 in Las Vegas, IBM announced the availability of Power Systems specifically oriented for private and hybrid cloud environment needs. These models are based on the IBM Enterprise Systems models 870 and 880 (and, I...
by Ron Gordon | Sep 13, 2016 | Enterprise Systems
Ron Gordon Director – Power Systems IBM announced and previewed the POWER9 technology at the annual Hot Chips meeting in California on August 23, 2016. This much-awaited announcement was well met and has been called a breakthrough in technology. IBM announced 4...
by Ron Gordon | Sep 8, 2016 | Enterprise Systems
Ron Gordon Director – Power Systems On September 8, IBM announced a rookery (look it up!) of awesome new Linux POWER8 based servers. While the names of the new systems appear to be similar to the older versions, these are much more flexible in configurations,...
by Ron Gordon | Aug 23, 2016 | Enterprise Systems
Ron Gordon Director – Power Systems Information Technology Intelligence Consulting (ITIC) just recently released their latest 2016 Global Server Hardware and Server OS Reliability results. Again, IBM Power Systems consistently achieved the highest reliability...
by Ron Gordon | Aug 16, 2016 | Enterprise Systems
Ron Gordon Director – Power Systems Over the past several years, Oracle has been changing both the functionality of the Oracle database (12c being the latest) and also the terms and conditions. Oracle, like many software providers, is doing heavy marketing in...