Timothy Prickett Morgan
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Power10 Entry Machines: The Power S1022 And Power L1022
August 1, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan
This is third part of our in-depth coverage of the entry and midrange Power10 machines that Big Blue launched on July 12, which will focus on the Power S1022 and its Linux-only variant, the Power L1022. Not to be confused with the Power S1022s – that is a small “s” not a plural – that we covered last week.
We will cover the Power S1024 and Power L1024 machines next week, and then finish the series with an analysis of the Power E1050 – which does not support the IBM i operating system but which could any time IBM …
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IBM Finally Shows Some Growth In Sales And Profits
August 1, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan
We got so excited about our coverage of the new Power10 entry and midrange servers in the past few weeks that we didn’t go into Big Blue’s financial results for the second quarter ended in June. Considering the past several years, and all off the bad news on the financial front from bug players like Intel, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, it is probably a good thing that our IBM analysis is coming a week later because we now have a better perspective of how IBM is doing relative to its peers.
It is a refreshing change to see IBM doing …
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Power10 Entry Machines: The Power S1022s
July 25, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan
This is second part of our in-depth coverage of the entry and midrange Power10 machines that Big Blue launched on July 12, and today we are going to take a look at the Power 1022s, a new class of machine in the Power Systems lineup that shoots the gap between the lowest-end Power S1014, which we reviewed last week, and the Power S1022 and Power L1022 that offer more expandability and more features.
We will cover these machines next week, followed by the Power S1024 and Power L1024 the week after that, and finish off with the Power E1050 – …
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Power10 Entry Machines: The Power S1014
July 18, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan
The Power10 entry and midrange machines are going to be with us for a long time, and so we are going to take our time and go through the different models, in their natural family groupings, and do a deep dive into the machines so you can make better decisions about where to go with your future system. This week, we start at the bottom of the line with the Power S1014, which will be the workhorse machine for many IBM i shops and which will probably be the highest volume box in the Power10 lineup over the next three …
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What Happens To IBM i In A “Zero Datacenter, Zero Mainframe” FedEx?
July 18, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan
Federal Express, the pioneer in overnight document delivery for business founded in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1971 by Frederick Smith, did not start out in the ground shipping business. But it did start its datacenter operations on IBM mainframes, as any company needing complex and intense computing would at the time, and it chose Memphis, Tennessee, in the heart of America, as its headquarters and base of operations in 1973 when the company moved from a PhD thesis at Yale University to a true business.
In 1983, FedEx made history by being the first company in the United States to …
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Now Is Your Chance To Ask IBM i CTO Steve Will Some Questions
July 18, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan
You have always wanted to pick the brains of Steve Will, the long-time IBM i chief architect and now chief technology officer and distinguished engineer for IBM i. Will is the first distinguished engineer within the IBM i organization and also its first CTO, and if there is something technical you have on your mind, there is nothing quite like starting at the top.
Will is going to be one of the several speakers taking part in a live webcast hosted by Able One, a gold-level IBM i partner based in Kitchener, Ontario, that has been an IBM …
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The Power10 Machines That Will Take IBM i To 2025
July 12, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan
IBM i shops that have been waiting for an upgrade path that will take them to the other half of this decade do not have to wait any longer. Finally, after a change of foundry (to Samsung) and process technology (from 10 nanometers down to 7 nanometers) as well as a new implementation of the Power instruction set packed with all kinds of vector and matrix math goodies that are perfect for embedding AI into commercial applications, Big Blue is ready to start shipping the entry and midrange Power Systems machines based on the Power10 processor.
We made it, despite …
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Thoroughly Modern: With Cloud, You Need To Crawl, Walk, Then Run
July 12, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan
The idea that all workloads are going to move to the cloud is a fallacy, and so is the idea that there will be only one cloud.
Some workloads will, by necessity due to issues of governance and data sovereignty, remain in the corporate datacenter; some will run in hybrid mode across local and cloud infrastructure; and some will be in the cloud for the rest of their electronic lives. And because of the breadth and depth of applications in the enterprise and the long-established relationships that companies have with their IT suppliers and business partners, there will be many …
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IBM i Licensing, Part 3: Can The Hardware Bundle Be Cheaper Than A Smartphone?
June 27, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan
How many monthly iPhone bills is a Power10-based entry server worth?
Let me ask this another way: Which will be more expensive: Providing a seat for a corporate user of an IBM i system, with a complete set of hardware and systems software, or providing an iPhone 13 Pro Max with a data plan and cellular service to each end user? Both are premium products with premium features.
We don’t know, but as the July 12 Power10 announcements are approaching, we are getting closer and closer to finding out.
Let’s talk about the iPhone 13 Pro Max first because we …
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Big Blue Tweaks IBM i Pricing Ahead Of Subscription Model
June 27, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan
Back in May, Big Blue said that it was going to be simplifying the IBM i stack ahead of a move to subscription pricing for systems software as well as hardware that runs it. To do that means zeroing out prices for a slew of things that had price tags on them formerly.
In announcement letter 322-406 on June 1, IBM made good on that promise to move a bunch of software from “separately charged” to “entitled with IBM i status, which we outlined in our coverage on May 16. The news here is not just that IBM followed …
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