Cloud
The Contradictions Of IBM’s Platform Strategy
The thing about platforms that have a wide adoption and deep history is that they tend to persist. …
Power Systems
Compute
The Ins And Outs Of IBM’s Power9 ZZ Systems
It has taken nearly four years for the low end, workhorse machines in IBM’s Power Systems line to be updated, and the long awaited Power9 processors and the shiny new “ZZ” systems have been unveiled. …
Compute
IBM’s 2018 Rollout Plan For Power9 Systems
In a way, the processor market started moving in slow motion through 2017 as server makers and their customers were awaiting a veritable cornucopia of processor options, something the industry has not seen in many a year. …
Cloud
The Booming Server Market In The Wake Of Skylake
The slowdown in server sales ahead of Intel’s July launch of the “Skylake” Xeon SP was real, and if the figures from the third quarter of this year are any guide, then it looks like that slump is over. …
Compute
International Cognitive And Cloud Business Machines
International Business Machines has gone through so many changes in its eleven decades of existence, and it is important to remember that some days. …
Cloud
IBM Reorg Forges Cognitive Systems, Merges Cloud And Analytics
It is the first month of a new year, and this is the time that IBM traditionally does reorganizations of its business lines and plays musical chairs with its executives to reconfigure itself for the coming year. …
Cloud
A Snapshot Of Big Blue’s Systems Business
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. …
Compute
IBM Doubles Up Memory, Adds Power8 CPUs For Big Iron
While the Power8 processor has been available from IBM since April 2014, the chips were only rolled out in Big Blue’s biggest iron in October of that year and the company only ramped up its largest Power8 machines, the Power Systems E880, to their fully extended NUMA configurations last May. …
Cloud
Transition To Platforms, Cloud Tough For IBM
Being in business for over 100 years is an accomplishment, and IBM has made more than a few jarring transitions in its long history, having started out as a supplier of meat slicers, scales, time keeping, and punch card tabulating machines. …
Cloud
Inside IBM’s Real Systems Business
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. …