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…
Avoid the risk and cost of downtime with IBM PowerHA SystemMirror for IBM i
IBM PowerHA SystemMirror for IBM i Since the first introduction of IBM® PowerHA® SystemMirror for IBM i in 2008, major global corporations have been transitioning from internal disk and logical replication to IBM storage servers and PowerHA SystemMirror for i. It’s not only the large corporations who take advantage of PowerHA; clients around the world…
IBM i Architecture – A System Designed for Business
While the IBM i operating system supports open programming methods such as Java, PHP, web services and so on, the underlying architecture provides a level of integration, stability, simplicity and security that are a significant differentiator. These aspects provide excellent business value to its users.
Of Age and Passion – Words from the Dr. of IBM i (AS/400, I SERIES, SYSTEM I)
Of Age and Passion July 24, 2013 Over the last couple years I have spent a fair number of brain cycles considering why it is that user groups in the IBM i and Power System space aren’t doing as well as I think they should. This week I finally figured it out. Maybe you knew…
Enabling success on the POWER8 platform
Infor discusses the new IBM POWER8 technology and the key benefits it will present for their SMB manufacturing distribution clients. As the worlds largest application vendor for the IBM i, Infor sees this technology as strategic to their business and for their clients.