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IBM Power blade postponed till June
News First, it uses a member of IBM's Power family processors, which the company aimed initially at Intel's Itanium and Sun Microsystems' UltraSparc, but which increasingly competes with Intel's widely used Xeon as well.
[May 25, 2004, 8:40]
IBM Power Systems offer a smart alternative to Windows servers
White Papers The IBM Power platform offers many advantages in performance, scalability and key functional capabilities to support key database serving. This International Technology Group (ITG) report shows the advantages of the IBM Power platform as an...
[March 18, 2009, 20:16]
IBM Power Systems - Cost-effective Linux database serving
White Papers The IBM Power platform offers cost-effective performance, scalability and key functional capabilities to support Linux-based database serving. This International Technology Group (ITG) report shows the advantages of the IBM Power platform for Linux...
[March 18, 2009, 20:16]
IBM puts Power in new blade server
News IBM unveiled a new blade server prototype on Tuesday that uses its Power processor, putting Big Blue a step ahead in the race to squeeze high-end chips into compact servers. Dougherty didn't disclose which member of IBM's Power processor family the...
[October 24, 2002, 9:13]
IBM conserves power with new chip
News Unlike those rivals' Unix systems, however, IBM's Power line also runs two other operating systems, Linux and OS/400. The Power processor family is the heart of IBM's sustained -- and so far, successful -- effort to gain ground in the Unix server...
[October 15, 2003, 8:40]
IBM pushes Power chip power savings
News IBM's new dual-core PowerPC 970MP processor employs several features to let the chip consume less power when possible. The 2.5GHz chip is used in Apple's latest Power Mac G5 machines and will be incorporated into IBM's blade servers in the first...
[October 26, 2005, 10:10]
IBM talks up power-saving chips
News IBM plans to announce on Tuesday a design it says paves the way for cellphone chips that use only one-fifth as much power as today's processors. The new chip design could eventually find its way into a variety of uses, IBM said, such as providing...
[September 30, 2003, 8:35]
IBM plots new Power server chips
News Power5 will be able to take over software tasks commonly used in the operating system such as packaging data to be sent to networks, said Ravi Arimilli, and IBM fellow and the chief technology officer for the Power line of chips.
[April 26, 2002, 9:06]
IBM reveals dual-core Power details
News IBM also said it will release a low-power version of the PowerPC 970FX. The technique helps save power and extends the life of the computer, IBM said. Both processor announcements are tied to IBM's promotion of its Power Architecture technology...
[July 11, 2005, 16:30]
IBM builds on-demand power into new hardware
News IBM said on Thursday it was shipping its new mainframe and servers, including its top-end p690 Unix server, a system the company claims will be 65 percent faster than its predecessor and which will let customers rent more computing power as needed.
[June 19, 2003, 10:28]
IBM targets data centre power crisis
News CIOs are facing a power and cooling crisis in their data centres," said Steven Sams, the vice president of IBM's site and facilities services division, which will offer the new data centre services. IBM is to start offering a range of services to...
[October 11, 2006, 16:55]
IBM gives the iSeries more Power
News The iSeries got its annual refresh on Tuesday with the launch of a range of new systems based around a speeded-up Power 5 chip — the Power 5+ — and including a new entry-level system which IBM hopes will attract new customers to the range.
[January 31, 2006, 3:00]
IBM XIV® Storage System: Power Consumption Reinvented
White Papers This IBM whitepaper shows how, on average, a traditional storage system using mirroring effectively uses less than 21% of its raw capacity, and an XIV system uses approximately 46% of its raw capacity.
[October 13, 2009, 1:22]
IBM pumps up 'on demand' power
News IBM is sharpening its "on demand" vision of computing with products and marketing programs geared toward its business partners. IBM is also expected to introduce "express" versions of its DB2 database and Tivoli systems management software.
[February 17, 2003, 12:05]
IBM High Performance Computing for Linux on POWER Using InfiniBand
White Papers The paper contains performance results for several communication benchmarks running on IBM System p5 servers with the IBM Host Channel Adapter driving InfiniBand switches. This paper provides an overview and describes the components and performance...
[February 19, 2007, 0:00]
IBM slashes price of Red Hat on Power servers
News IBM on Tuesday dropped the price of Red Hat Linux on its Power processor-based servers by more than 30 percent, Big Blue has confirmed. IBM is pushing hard to establish Linux on its Power-based servers, the iSeries and pSeries lines.
[April 30, 2004, 8:45]
IBM to track mainframe power use
News While collecting the data, IBM says it established that typical z9 energy use is normally 60 percent of the maximum possible power usage. IBM claims to have invented an accurate way for its customers to track the energy consumption of its z9...
[October 12, 2007, 17:14]
MySQL embraces IBM's Power
News MySQL has created a version of its popular open-source database software for Linux on IBM's Power processors, the company said on Tuesday. The company supports Linux on IBM's older Power4-based machines, the new Power5-based i5 and p5 models, and...
[August 5, 2004, 8:45]
Lawson M3 7.1 on IBM Power Hardware and IBM i 6.1 Operating System
White Papers This paper describes testing that was done with M3 7.1 on the latest IBM Power hardware and the IBM i 6.1 operating system. Finally it shows the benefits of the new low-end IBM Power 520 Express offerings.
[April 30, 2008, 1:02]
Calculate your energy savings with the IBM Power Configurator tool
White Papers The IBM Power Configurator tool is designed to show you how IBM System x? and IBM BladeCenter servers offer high-performance and flexibility businesses need, plus advanced power management that keeps energy costs as low as possible.
[January 15, 2009, 14:22]
