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Security in Power5 LPARs

A recent discussion on the value of infrastructure virtualization for SOA and SOA based middleware and related security issues was one worth posting on. It seems to be a commonly held view that we...

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Power on Mars

Just like London buses, I don’t post for a while, then two came along together. Actually, I’ll follow this one up with some other interesting news for next week. Anyway, a lot of the new on National...

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Partition Mobility demo on YouTube

I mentioned in a post a couple back that we would be demoing the new Power 6 Partition Mobility to the great and the good out in San Francisco. Mark Kressin and the team behind the demo did a great job...

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AIX, VIOS and HMC Facts & Features

There is an excellent document listing and comparing all the functions, features, etc. of AIX, VIOS and HMC. It’s in the techdocs library and was written and updated by Ravi Singh. You can get it here....

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IBM Ships 1,000th POWER6-Based System p UNIX Server

I’ve been busy trying to wrap-up on our fall plan development commitments for the Systems Management updates I was working on earlier in the year; and also starting a new appliance and virtual...

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More mobility, this time SAP

After my post back in August about the Partition Mobility video posted on YouTube, I got a few emails about the steps it actually took, what it looked like etc. Walter Orb at the IBM SAP International...

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Last weeks announcement recap, Power6 Blades and AIX

Thanks to the folks over at the “Power Architecture zone editors’ notebook” blog here is their summary of last weeks announcements. Get yours today: Listen UNIX users — the newly available IBM...

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Now that’s virtualization…

Simulation is a big deal these days, not only can you get well ahead of actual chip availability by simulating architecture, but you can also run where otherwise you couldn’t normally. Last week IBM...

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Catching up on IBM Redbooks

Trying to find a reference book on AIX 6, I looked at the latest list of Redbooks for Power Systems, these are the ones listed in the RSS feed since the start of October 2007. IBM AIX Version 6.1...

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On PowerVM, Lx86 and virtualization of Windows

Yesterday saw the announcement of a re-packaging, re-branding and new technology drive for POWER™ Virtualization now PowerVM™. You can see the full announcement here. It is good to be back working on...

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On the IBM System p 550 and 520 announcements

Liz Stahl has a good summary on the performance, benchmarks etc. on this weeks IBM System p 520 and IBM System p 550 server announcements.

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IBM Power p570 Datamation Enterprise Server of the Year 2008

Feb. 12th Datamation announced their product of the year awards, the IBM Power Systems p570 server won enterprise server of the year, up against the IBM System x 3950 M2 Server, the HP MediaSmart...

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It’s a performance double-up for Power!

That got your attention didn’t it? We’ve announced another performance and benchmark record this week, IBM WebSphere Application Server benchmark involved more than 109,850 concurrent clients and...

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It takes a team – April Power Systems Announcements

I’ve had a few emails asking me if I was going to write a log entry on this month announcements, and to be honest I wasn’t. They are an impressive list of products, branding and customer...

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Time for dinner – The IBM Hydro-cluster

I got an email pointing out that I omitted a link to the youtube video of the IBM hydro-cluster. So, here it is. Towards the end of the video, Jeff Gluck says “hot water can be moved off site”, “to...

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2008 IBM Power Systems Technical University featuring AIX and Linux

Yep, it’s a mouthful. I’ve just been booking some events and presentations for later in the year, and this one, which I had initially hoped to attend clashes with one, so now I can’t. However, in case...

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Whither IBM, Sun and Sparc?

So the twitterati and blog space is alight with discussion that IBM is to buy Sun for $6.25 billion. The only way we’ll know if there is any truth to it is if it goes ahead, these rumors are never...

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Oracle gets big on Sun

Predicting the Future, The Oracle concept watches by Designer Andy Kurovets mixes time with Chinese philosophyFascinating news. I didn’t see a single consultant, analyst, journalist predict this. WRT...

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