Category: Power Systems

IBM Power7 hardware upgrades

Softek Replicator – Helping to recover data more quickly with volume-level replication Softek™ Replicator software provides an efficient, reliable method to help ensure usable data recovery regardless of storage vendor or server platform. In doing so, it enables any data protection budget to stretch further. In addition to being essential for disaster recovery, Softek Replicator [...]

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Actively Manage your Energy with IBM’s Active Energy Manager Active Energy Manager (formally IBM Director PowerExecutive) measures, monitors, and manages the energy components built into IBM systems enabling a cross-platform management solution. Active Energy Manager is an extension of IBM Director that supports BladeCenter, POWER Systems and System x servers. It also provides a source [...]

Here at Computer Merchants we, like IBM, have noticed the growth over time in the Blades and BladeCenter market. Many of you have heard about blades, in fact, many of you are probably running blades. However for those of you wanting to know more about this new technology, please read on! What is a BladeCenter Blade [...]

Not only does the POWER6 processor provide a greatly increased processing rating, but has also gained recognition in proving that it is far more efficient in the way it uses power to run. The POWER6 processor has several new features, including: power trending, power saver mode, and thermal reporting. So what do these features do [...]

IBM Power Systems – the next generation systems for UNIX, IBM i and Linux clients Servers IBM Power Blade servers IBM Power 520 IBM Power 550 IBM Power 570 IBM Power 575 IBM Power 595 All IBM Power Systems (including earlier System i and System p models) Software Virtualization – PowerVM AIX IBM i Linux Availability [...]

The IBM System i and System p have been replaced with a new range of Servers called IBM Power Systems Power systems – with POWER6™ processor technology have the ability to run AIX®, IBM i, and Linux® operating systems simultaneously. In fact, regardless of which operating systems you are using the actual hardware will be [...]

Congratulations went to Roger Spraggon from Best & Less at the IBM Power Systems launch event for winning the Lamborghini ride to work. We trust that Roger will remember his work address is 41 Sudbury Street, Darra, Queensland! This is not the first time Roger has won a prize at an IBM event, of which [...]

IBM enjoys rebranding products to keep them relevant and current to the user population. For anyone who is yet to ‘catch up’ the following is a quick summary of some products that share ‘dual personalities’. System 390 = zSeries = System z (Mainframe) AS/400 = iSeries = System i (Midrange OS/400) RS/6000 = pSeries = [...]

What Are Hardware Management Consoles? A hardware management console (HMC) is an Intel based PC appliance that is used to configure and manage partitions on IBM Power 5 systems (i520 etc). The main applications of a HMC include server and partition management and licensed internal code maintenance. When Are They Required? You will need a [...]