Diving Into the PowerVM v4.1.1.0 and AIX 7.3.3 Releases
January 23, 2025
IBM Champion Jaqui Lynch highlights new features in the releases and shares notes from her update experience.
ArticlesHow Mainframe Architecture Makes All the Difference: Then and Now
January 3, 2025
Former IBM Systems magazine contributor Joseph Gulla returns as a TechChannel contributor to explain the nuances of mainframe architecture
ArticlesIBM Power Enhancements Focus on AI and Modern Workloads
December 13, 2024
Bargav Balakrishnan, vice president of product management at IBM Power, explains the recently announced advances
Press ReleasesNAKIVO Launches v11: Proxmox VE Support, Cloud Backup for Microsoft 365, Spanish Language, Enhanced Cybersecurity
November 13, 2024
The latest release of NAKIVO Backup & Replication expands platform coverage, strengthens backup for Microsoft 365, introduces advanced cybersecurity measures and includes Spanish language support
ArticlesA Timeline of Mainframe Innovation
June 20, 2024
IBM Champion Reg Harbeck outlines the history of the IBM Z mainframe and highlights its impacts over the past six decades
POSIX-tivity and IBM Z
August 17, 2023
“Standard,” according to en.wiktionary.org, can be used as a noun that means, “Something used as a measure for comparative evaluations; a model.” The history of standards is a deeply interwoven thread through the history of humanity. But the emergence of computing and IT over the past century has been a somewhat special yarn. On one […]
ArticlesPerformance and Management Tools for AIX and Power Systems: Features and Use Cases
December 7, 2021
While monitoring and management solutions perform somewhat similar tasks, they’ve traditionally served different enough functions to keep them from being optimally paired as a collaborative unit. Management tools ensure that your system is available, configured properly or optimized and its components are connected correctly and as expected, whereas monitoring tools look for overall system, communication, […]
ArticlesPower Systems Best Practices Doc Updated, dnf, New IBM Customer Support Portals and More.
June 15, 2021
The Power Implementation Quality Standard for Commercial Workloads document has been updated. Get the details from Rob McNelly here.
ArticlesWhy You Should be Running VIOS 3.x
November 2, 2020
Technical Editor Rob McNelly explains the advantages of upgrading your VIO server.
ArticlesPowerVM Capability Offers Value to SAP HANA
February 18, 2020
A new PowerVM capability called Virtual Persistent Memory (vPMEM) provides a fast restart of workloads during outages in SAP HANA environments.