Once upon a time : IBM AS/400

by | May 27, 2022 | Facts

IBM discontinued the AS/400 over 20 years ago : In 1988, the AS/400 was launched, replacing the old System/3x range In 2000, AS/400 was replaced by a new system : the IBM iSeries In 2006, iSeries was replaced by a new system : the IBM System i In 2008, System i was...

IBM i 7.5 (V7R5) is out there !

by | May 6, 2022 | Facts

IBM i 7.5 (V7R5) is out there : announced on 03/05/2022 and available (GA) on 10/05/2022 ! IBM announced the new version IBM i 7.5 (V7R5). Its availability is scheduled for May 10, 2022 … about 3 years after the release of V7R4. Only Power9 and Power10 servers...

Once upon a time : Deep(er) Blue

by | Apr 29, 2022 | Facts

Deep Blue was a chess-playing expert system run on a unique purpose-built IBM supercomputer. It was the first computer to win a game, and the first to win a match, against a reigning world champion under regular time controls. Development began in 1985 at Carnegie...

What is hybrid cloud ?

by | Apr 15, 2022 | Facts

Hybrid cloud integrates public cloud services, private cloud services and on-premises infrastructure and provides orchestration, management and application portability across all three. The result is a single, unified and flexible distributed computing environment...