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...
View ArticlePower 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...
View ArticlePartition 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...
View ArticleAIX, 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....
View ArticleIBM 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...
View ArticleMore 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...
View ArticleLast 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...
View ArticleNow 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...
View ArticleCatching 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...
View ArticleOn 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...
View ArticleOn 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.
View ArticleIBM 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...
View ArticleIt’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...
View ArticleIt 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...
View ArticleTime 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...
View Article2008 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...
View ArticleWhither 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...
View ArticleOracle 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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