Tag: Power 6

IBM Specials December 2011

22 December 2011 No Comments by Computer Merchants
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IBM Servers IBM 9406/520 2400 CPW OS V5R4 – P1 $8,000 IBM 9406/800 25/30 CPW OS V5R4 – P05 $3,350 IBM 9405/520 30/500 CPW OS V5R3 – P05 $4,850 IBM 9406/520 1000/1000 CPW OS V5R4 – P10 $6,200 IBM 9406/525 3800/3800 CPW OS V5R4 – P10 $22,000 IBM Expansion Unit IBM 9406/0595 PCI-X Expansion with [...]

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Tips For Upgrading The HMC To Version 7.3.3

11 December 2008 No Comments by Computer Merchants

If you are contemplating upgrading to HMC Code 7.3.3., here are a couple of tips that may assist you when you perform the install. After you have imported your system plan or created your LPAR’s, you may get this error when you open up a 5250 console session: HMC not configured for this LPAR and [...]

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POWER6 – More Power With Less Power

22 September 2008 No Comments by Computer Merchants

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 [...]

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Introducing IBM Power Systems

19 June 2008 No Comments by Computer Merchants

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 [...]

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EchoStream And EchoCluster, High Availability for AIX

9 June 2008 No Comments by Computer Merchants

Over the past 6 weeks we have created a storm in the market over EchoStream – a Continuous Data Protection for AIX systems – and EchoCluster, the complementary product for High Availability fail over. Both have been met with so much enthusiasm from the AIX community. It seems that both these types of products have [...]

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IBM System p520 Bundle Specials June 2008

3 June 2008 No Comments by Computer Merchants

Pricing does NOT include the following: GST Delivery Installation Plain English Terms and Conditions Apply. Subject to prior sale. Call us on 1800 777 111 and quote “Web Specials” for your discount. Extended Offer - IBM System p Bundle Promotion IBM System P520 IBM 4 Way Power 5+, 1.65Ghz Processor IBM 16GB RAM IBM DVD RAM IBM [...]

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IBM System p Specials April 2008

14 April 2008 No Comments by Computer Merchants

Strictly available until 30th May 2008 Pricing does NOT include the following: GST Delivery Installation Plain English Terms and Conditions Apply. Subject to prior sale. Call us on 1800 777 111 and quote “Web Specials” for your discount. BRAND NEW IBM System p Bundle Promotion IBM SYSTEM P520 IBM 4 Way Power 5+, 1.65Ghz Processor [...]

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Logical Partitions – Tech Tips

7 April 2008 No Comments by Computer Merchants

Many of us who have been around a while will know that partitions in an IT environment are nothing new, particularly in a mainframe environment. However in the past few years the concept of Logical Partitioning has made a resurgence. The benefits to users are many, including: Reduces floor area, reducing real estate usage Ability [...]

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2 Tonnes Of i570 With 5 LPARs? No Worries

7 April 2008 No Comments by Computer Merchants

Success Story Our engineer Richard recently had the pleasure of travelling to Papua New Guinea to work with the great people from Bank South Pacific at their Port Moresby office. Richard was responsible for the installation and set-up of their new i570 Power 6+ System i, with 2 Frames, 5 LPARs and over 5 TB [...]

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IBM System p520 And p550 Express Servers

2 April 2008 No Comments by Computer Merchants

IBM’s POWER6 processor, combined with enhanced virtualization, energy efficiency and near-continuous availability features, offer exceptional price and performance for entry-level, Small and Medium Businesses wishing to run UNIX or Linux environments. IBM energy management and browser-based virtualization software makes it easier to achieve increased server utilization and energy efficiency by using EnergyScale capabilities and optional [...]

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The New IBM BladeCenter S Is Here!

17 December 2007 No Comments by Computer Merchants

The IBM BladeCenter S is a new, completely integrated server infrastructure platform with a high degree of flexibility, scalability and manageability. It’s ideal for small and medium sized businesses, or for branch offices of bigger companies.It offers a powerful, yet simple IT infrastructure. You simply plug the BladeCenter S into the standard office outlet, and [...]

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AIX 6 To Be Released in November 2007

16 October 2007 No Comments by Computer Merchants

Due to be released in November 2007, with promises to deliver new and exciting advances to the current AIX portfolio is AIX 6. The planned AIX release will allow full binary compatibility with previous releases of AIX 5L, and will work on any hardware supported by AIX6 including POWER4, PPC970, POWER5 and POWER6. AIX6 is [...]

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System i Model 570 Power 6 Edition

15 October 2007 No Comments by Computer Merchants

IBM introduced the new System i Model 570 POWER 6 Edition to the Australian market in mid September The 570 model will be the first in the System i family of servers to make use of new processing technology, using up to 16 POWER6 processors (running at 4.7GHZ) in each machine. The advantage of the [...]

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