Over the last few months (this being written in September 2018), I have received customer emails asking if I can get them an updated access key. This was something new to me, and I had to do some research to find out what is an updated access key. Come to find out, this was something…
MiTEC18: Open Source on the i, IBM Web query, Watson, IBM 30 years and just getting started
“The IBM i is dead”; “IBM i is old and on its way out”; “IBM i lacks a sustainable competitive advantage.” There are many opinions and thoughts on where IBM and the i are headed. Last week, I attended the 2018 Michigan IBM Power Systems Technical Education Conference (#MiTEC18), and have a very different view…
Practical app hosting for SMB’s in today’s world
Being in the consulting business we work with a variety of organizations. Some buy new hardware every 3 years and keep their OS up to date, while others go longer between upgrades. More often than not, the latter is the scenario that we run into. Management teams will neglect hardware at times especially in the…
IBM Power System CPW Performance Data: POWER8 vs. POWER9 ScaleOut Models
IBM Announced the CPW and rPerf performance benchmark numbers for their new POWER9 ScaleOut servers on 2/27/2018 as promised the day of the server announcement 2/13/2018. You can see the full 26 page PDF document HERE if you are interested in the details. If you’re like 95% of the folks I get to work with in the…
IBM i and POWER9: Extreme Stability with Massive Scalability
I have been patiently waiting for this day, as I can now talk publicly about the servers built around the pound for pound champion of the processor world. We have heard a lot about the POWER9 Chip for high end AI and machine learning workloads, the massive scale of the Summit and Sierra supercomputers, the…