by Common Europe Luxembourg | Jun 14, 2026 | Facts
In the long history of enterprise computing, few machines have earned the quiet respect granted to IBM Power servers. They were never the loudest products in the room. Personal computers captured headlines, cloud startups became fashionable, and sleek laptops...
by Common Europe Luxembourg | Apr 12, 2026 | Facts
Big idea first (this matters) … The AS/400 (now IBM i on Power Systems) was never about raw GHz or core counts. Its performance model is based on : Tightly integrated hardware and Operating System Specialized instruction sets Workload-oriented benchmarks, not...
by Common Europe Luxembourg | Mar 16, 2026 | Facts
IBM has just unveiled a new FlashSystem storage portfolio that marks a significant evolution in how enterprise storage is managed : Autonomous storage powered by agentic AI : storage arrays that can be co-managed with AI agents to automate tasks like monitoring,...
by Common Europe Luxembourg | Feb 15, 2026 | Facts
POWER (Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC) is IBM’s high-performance RISC processor architecture, created for servers, supercomputers, and mission-critical enterprise systems. 1970s–1980s : The RISC Foundations POWER traces back to IBM’s 801 research project,...
by Common Europe Luxembourg | Jan 18, 2026 | Facts
In IBM systems terminology, RAMP-C was an earlier performance test that was replaced in the mid-1990s by the Commercial Processing Workload (CPW) benchmark for measuring the relative performance of systems like the AS/400 and its successors (IBM iSeries, IBM i, and...
by Common Europe Luxembourg | Nov 2, 2025 | Facts
IBM i 7.4 (V7R4) is available since June 2019. The end of standard support of this version (5770-SS1 V7R4M0 and all its LPPs) is announced for 30/09/2026. Start planning : the replacement versions/releases are V7R5 or V7R6 ! Source :...
