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Big Blue Turns In A Solid Quarter For Systems

July 19, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

By all accounts, Big Blue had a pretty good quarter ending in June, with sales of its System z16 mainframes skyrocketing upwards as they do every couple of years at the beginning of a new cycle and sales of its high-end Power10 machines also getting some traction. …

Compute

IBM Bets Big On Native Inference With Big Iron

August 23, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

Everyone knows that machine learning inference is going to be a big deal for commercial applications in the years ahead, but no one is precisely sure how much inference is going to be needed. …

Compute

IBM Starts Showing A Little Hybrid Vigor

July 20, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

IBM may not be the biggest provider of systems in terms of the size of its customer base, but of the top 5,000 or so companies worldwide that are not hyperscalers and cloud builders in their own right, Big Blue does have a sizeable share of the system budget. …

Cloud

Vertically Unchallenged

April 22, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 8

Components make compute and storage servers, and servers with application plane, control plane, and data plane software running atop them or alongside them make systems, and workflows across systems make platforms. …

AI

Someone Has To Pay To Push The Bleeding Edge Of Systems

October 17, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

When you look at IBM, it is as if you are seeing many different instantiations of Big Blue across time playing out in the present, side by side. …

Compute

International Cognitive And Cloud Business Machines

April 20, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

International Business Machines has gone through so many changes in its eleven decades of existence, and it is important to remember that some days. …

AI

IBM Wants to Make Mainframes Next Platform for Machine Learning

February 15, 2017 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 3

Despite the emphasis on X86 clusters, large public clouds, accelerators for commodity systems, and the rise of open source analytics tools, there is a very large base of transactional processing and analysis that happens far from this landscape. …

Cloud

A Snapshot Of Big Blue’s Systems Business

October 17, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

It is the job of the chief financial officer and the rest of the top brass of every public company in the world to present the financial results of their firms in the best possible light every thirteen weeks when the numbers are compiled and presented to Wall Street for grading. …

Cloud

Inside IBM’s Real Systems Business

July 21, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

IBM made no bones about it. After divesting itself of its System x server business, which it sold off to Lenovo Group, and its Microelectronics chip making division, which Big Blue paid Globalfoundries to take, the company said that 2015 would be a year of transition on many fronts. …

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