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...

Once upon a time : IBM System/3

by | Mar 21, 2022 | Facts

The IBM System/3 was an IBM midrange computer introduced in 1969, and marketed until 1985. It was produced by IBM Rochester in Minnesota as a low-end business computer aimed at smaller organizations that still used IBM 1400 series computers or unit record equipment....

What is Power ISA ?

by | Mar 7, 2022 | Facts

Power ISA is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) currently developed by the OpenPOWER Foundation, led by IBM. It was originally developed by IBM and the now-defunct Power.org industry group. Power ISA is an evolution of the...