We are still assembling the information on the new Power11 processor and the Power Systems machines that use them and working on our analysis before they start shipping on July 25. We will do the most thorough job that we can under the circumstances, as always, but we concede that pricing information is very hard| IT Jungle
Today is Power11 announcement day, and as sometimes happens during the debut of a new processor and a new platform to go along with it, we do not have all of the details necessary to tell you everything you need to know about the new Power11 processor and the four of the five Power Systems| IT Jungle
Big Blue has been noodling how it might tweak the subscription pricing for the P20 and P30 tiers since getting feedback on the first pass it did on its big iron Power Systems machines way back in February 2023. That feedback from the company’s biggest IBM i customers was not entirely glowing, but IBM has| IT Jungle
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
It’s not a secret that we at Silent Signal are hopeless romantics, especially when it comes to classic Unix systems (1, 2, 3). Since some of these systems – that still run business critical applications at our clients – are based on some “exotic” architectures, we have a nice hardware collection in our lab, so we can experiment on bare metal.| Silent Signal Techblog
Renewal paper of my GIAC Penetration Tester certification:| Silent Signal Techblog