About Units

It is very important to clearly understand the difference between binary and decimal units : 1 Terabyte (1 TB), decimal unit, according International System of Units (SI) defining metric system is 1.000.000.000.000 (or 1000^4) bytes Used for disk unit labels Used by...

Power Enterprise Pools

IBM Power Enterprise Pools is an offering supported on certain modern Power systems, designed to deliver enhanced multisystem resource sharing and by-the-minute consumption of on-premises Power compute resources to clients deploying and managing a private cloud...

About IBM i 7.6 (V7R6)

IBM i 7.6 is the latest major release of IBM’s integrated operating system for Power Systems (previously known as AS/400, iSeries, and System i). It continues to evolve as a powerful platform for enterprise computing, known for its stability, security, and integrated...

Once upon a time : IBM Series/1

The IBM Series/1 is a 16-bit minicomputer, introduced in 1976, that in many respects competed with other minicomputers of the time, such as the PDP-11 from Digital Equipment Corporation and similar offerings from Data General and HP. The Series/1 was typically used to...

Harvest now, decrypt later

Harvest now, decrypt later, also known as store now, decrypt later, steal now, decrypt later or retrospective decryption, is a surveillance strategy that relies on the acquisition and long-term storage of currently unreadable encrypted data awaiting possible...