In last week’s issue of The Four Hundred, we told you about how the Power Systems division had a new vice president of product management – to be specific, Bargav Balakrishnan, who has spent decades in various technical and management roles within Big Blue. Balakrishnan takes over from Steve Sibley, who has been steering Power| IT Jungle
We commented back in August when the Hot Chips 2024 conference was underway at Stanford University that it was odd that IBM did reveal some of the speeds and feeds of the Power11 processor that we all know is coming in 2025. And when the TechXchange 2024 partner event was held in Las Vegas a| IT Jungle
Considering how late we are in the Power10 and System z16 product cycles, things went pretty well for IBM in the respective Power Systems and System z businesses in the third quarter of 2024. While customers always look forward to future price/performance enhancements that come with a product refresh, there doesn’t seem to be anything| IT Jungle
“I love it when a plan comes together.” – Colonel John “Hannibal” Smith, The A Team. Look, we take our wisdom and our joy where we can find it here at The Four Hundred, and it does indeed look like Big Blue has a plan that is coming together with regards to generative AI and| IT Jungle
Big Blue was one of the system designers that caught the accelerator bug early and declared rather emphatically that, over the long haul, all kinds of| The Next Platform
Everyone knows that machine learning inference is going to be a big deal for commercial applications in the years ahead, but no one is precisely sure how| The Next Platform
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It may be hard to believe, but with the launch of IBM i 7.6 today, it has been 13,440 days since OS/400 V1R1 was announced on June 21, 1988, and Big Blue has delivered 27 distinct releases of the OS/400 and IBM i platform with dozens of Technology Refresh interim updates between releases in the| IT Jungle
Last week, we went over the roadmaps for the future Power11 processor from IBM and its follow-on, the Power Next chip that we presume will be called Power 12 because, you know, history. This week we want to take a little bit of a deeper dive into the Power11 strategy and what this might mean| IT Jungle
Big Blue might be a little late to the AI acceleration game, but it has a captive audience in its System z mainframe and Power Systems servers. Many of| The Next Platform