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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...

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...

Although it was out there, if you knew where to look, IBM just published the traditional EoS for Power 9 (first generation of Scale-Out) products :...

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, 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...

Twinaxial cabling, or twinax, is a type of cable similar to coaxial cable, but with two inner conductors in a twisted pair instead of one. Due to cost efficiency it is becoming common in modern (2013) very-short-range high-speed differential signaling applications....

IBM i seamlessly integrates with the IBM Power platform, delivering a robust and adaptable foundation for businesses. Its architecture is designed to evolve alongside changing business needs, offering unparalleled flexibility and performance. IBM i Technology...

During the Fort Knox project, a skunkworks project was started at IBM Rochester by engineers who believed that Fort Knox's failure was inevitable. These engineers developed code which allowed System/36 applications to run on top of the System/38, and when Fort Knox...

The Power11 processor is designed to deliver higher clock speeds and can add up to 25% more cores per processor chip than comparable IBM Power10 systems. The Power11 processor builds upon the key capabilities we delivered with Power10 including stronger reliability,...

In the early 1980s, IBM management became concerned that IBM's large number of incompatible midrange computer systems was hurting the company's competitiveness, particularly against Digital Equipment Corporation's VAX. In 1982, a project named Fort Knox commenced,...