IBM last week upgraded the servers and operating system in its iSeries line, continuing its effort to expand the potential user base for the midrange machines. The new operating system, i5/OS Version ...

IBM is merging two of its server lines — System i and System p — into a single family of products, a move that was widely applauded but led some to ask: What took you so long? When the two server ...

AS PART OF its ongoing effort to “reinvent” its venerable mainframe line IBM dropped the other shoe on Monday, delivering its new age 64-bit mainframe operating system called zOS. zOS fully exploits ...

As it previewed in March, IBM is set to deliver an AI-infused, hybrid-cloud oriented version of its z/OS mainframe operating system. Set for delivery on Sept. 29, z/OS 3.1, the operating system grows ...

IBM is a bit of an enigma these days. It has the art – some would say black magic – of financial engineering down pat, and its system engineering is still quite good. Big Blue talks about all of the ...

IBM has powered up a prototype of "Squadron," its coming high-end Unix server with 64 Power5 processors, an important step in Big Blue's plans to unify its four server lines. "We manufactured our ...

IBM has embarked on a new multibillion-dollar effort called eLiza to build computer systems that can fix themselves while problems still are in the early stages. The effort is an attempt to bring some ...

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Two of IBM’s aging flagship server models, retired in 2020, won’t be patched for a command-injection flaw. Two legacy IBM System x server models, retired in 2019, are open to attack and will not ...

We have argued, even a decade and a half before The Next Platform was founded, that no one would ever move all of their IT infrastructure to a utility, what we now call a public cloud. And as the ...

Maßgeblich bei der Entscheidung für ein Betriebssystem ist heute meist die Anwendung. Der Druck, den Linux auf den Markt ausübt, wird jedoch zunehmend für Standards und mehr Auswahl sorgen. Die Butler ...