In the fast pace world of technology it is nearly impossible (I’m a glass half full kind of guy so nothing is completely impossible) to keep your arms around the new advancements of all the infrastructure that resides within the walls of your data-center. With an ocean of information available to you at the click…
IBM i Power Systems External Storage Support Matrix
The below matrix shows the available options for external storage on IBM Power8 Servers. With the advancements in technology added to each new IBM Power System hardware release, it is expected that older technology will not be supported or compatible with the new hardware and O/S. This is a great quick reference matrix for the…
IBM Power8 & Ubuntu – “IBM Power is Extraordinary, JuJu is Magic. The Combination is really quite good.” Mark Shuttleworth
IBM Power8 and Ubuntu. How can people deny that IBM Power is the best performing platform in the industry after watching this video. Installing full versions of Hadoop, Websphere, Haproxy, SugarCRM, Memcached, and 3 others on Power8 in less then 3 minutes. Mark Shuttleworth says in the video “Power is extraordinary, JuJu is magic. The…
A journey through the open innovation of POWER8 and IBM Power Systems
What could you do with a system truly designed for Big Data? Take a journey through IBM Power Systems, built with the open innovation of POWER8, to see blazingly fast processing power, massive memory and data bandwidth that puts data to work. Experience a new world of open innovation with CAPI (Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface)…
Benefit for Mid-Sized Business’s Running on IBM Power8 (S814 & S824) Systems
We have upgraded a fair amount of our customers with older IBM Power Systems to IBM’s recently released Power8 systems. IBM has yet again made big strides in performance, reliability, and scalability within the system unit and the operating systems. Today I will not go into details about the performance specs or harp on the…