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 :...
by Common Europe Luxembourg | Oct 19, 2025 | Facts
Supported Servers IBM i 7.6 does not support Power9 processor-based systems : IBM i 7.6 is supported only on Power10 with firmware level FW1060 and above and Power11 technology-based processors. List of Withdrawed products It’s time to clean up. The following...
