At $250 million over five years, the projected savings are real and substantial -- and the PR benefits, especially for System z, are even more important.
The updated Systems Director could be a hot ticket for many System p and System i customers.
IBM claims that its new System p p570 offers three times the performance of a comparable Superdome system from HP
PSI officials pledge to indemnify customers against liability and expect a return to normalcy -- post-litigation -- with Big Blue.
From its chip strategy to its datacenter-in-a-box initiative, Sun has been reinvigorated
Some industry watchers think Big Blue’s midrange workhorse might have finally turned a corner
After years of animosity, Intel and Sun have patched things up. Why? What’s the catch?
Server revenues were way up in Q3, and IBM lucrative System z mainframes helped lead the charge
With months to go before its launch, the industry’s already buzzing about POWER6, with good reason
Late last month, Big Blue gave pundits a glimpse at Power 6, the next-generation RISC CMOS it expects to unveil next year
Is Sun’s Blackbox a gimmick? Some analysts think there’s a lot more to it, but we’ll have to wait until it ships to be sure.
Regardless of whether customers opt for Linux-on-zSeries or choose to abandon the mainframe altogether, Oracle stands to benefit
Customers can service-enable terminal-based applications and effectively transform them into full-fledged SOA assets
What do the PlayStation 3 and IBM’s next-generation blade system have in common? A single Cell, you might say.
Some mainframe pros say that next-generation workloads (such as zLinux and J2EE) point the way to false destinies
These days, Sun has a pronounced bounce in its step—enough to give many Solaris administrators that old late-1990’s feeling again
A pSeries system anchored by IBM’s new Power5 processor obliterates the competition in a standard industry benchmark
IBM says its new iSeries i595 and pSeries p595 systems are the largest and most powerful non-mainframe systems it has ever delivered
Sun may be on a comeback, but its inability to articulate a Linux vision that’s all things to all people could continue to dog it
Big Blue also previews z/OS version 7, due out next year