Category Archives: News

Tim Prickett Morgan of IT Jungle has a pretty complete rundown of IBM’s IBM i Tech Refresh for i 7.1 that IBM announced last week. Here’s the opening paragraph from Tim’s article and it just gets more detailed from here. … Continue reading →

Regarding my post the other day about IBM putting out instructions for replacing the Systems Director Management Console (SDMC) with the Hardware Management Console (HMC) for managing Power system servers, IBM pointed me to their software announcement on April 24th … Continue reading →

In today’s iCan Technical Tips for i column, Senior IBM Technical Staff Member Dawn May provides the technical details for i 7.1’s new Live Partition Mobility feature announced today with Technology Refresh 4 (TR4). Dawn covers a lot of ground … Continue reading →

Lots of IBM i announcments today. IBM i Chief Architect Steve Will has the rundown on his You and i column. The announcements cover a number of things to be included in Technology Refresh 4 for i 7.1, including: Live … Continue reading →

I got an email from IBM today containing links to the broadcast video from the April 11 PureSystems announcement event. In it, they pointed me to videos for the following announcement events that occurred on Tuesday, April 11th: The video … Continue reading →

From Tim Prickett Morgan at IT Jungle. It is time to take a good hard look at the new iron. We’ll start with the Flex System chassis at the heart of the PureFlex and PureApplication machines and the three server … Continue reading →

It looks like IBM will be announcing new Power 7 based nodes under the PureSystems line today. And at least some of the Power 7 nodes in PureSystems will be labeled the Flex System. The systems I found this morning … Continue reading →

Update (4/11/12): Just got comfirmation from IBM that the Power 7 nodes of IBM PureSystems support IBM i 6.1 and 7.1. So we can stand down on that one. In one of many articles breaking news on IBM’s announcement tomorrow, … Continue reading →

Tim Prickett Morgan (TPM) at IT Jungle is on the case with what could be coming in IBM’s April 11th “New Era of Computing” announcement. IBM may be prepping its Next Generation Platform (NGP) for launch on April 11th, which according to … Continue reading →

The Telegraph is reporting that Twitter has admitted that it has an “Unfollowing” bug. According to the Telegraph: The bug is causing Twitter users to randomly unfollow people without account holders’ prior consent or knowledge. Twitter has advised affected people … Continue reading →

From Alex Woodie at IT Jungle: Companies that find it increasingly difficult to get good help for their old, unsupported, or heavily customized IBM i-based ERP systems may be interested in a new offering recently unveiled by Precision Solutions Group … Continue reading →

After a service outage with the Paper.Li Web site, the IBM i Daily News is back up and running. This site aggregates daily news and information from around the IBM i world. Check it out sometime to find stories and … Continue reading →

IBM’s promoting a big announcement at 60 locations on April 11th that (according to Big Blue) will demonstrate:

A new computing category that will completely change the way you deploy, manage and fund IT. And one that will change your business from the moment it is installed.

These new integrated hardware and software systems are designed specifically for the types of workloads that you most frequently deploy to help you operate and optimize your business. They’re designed to get new application projects up and running in as little as four hours – cutting months off the usual deployment time.

The event is called Integrated Expertise: Unveiling a New Era of Computing, and you can register here.

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