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?
With months to go before its launch, the industry’s already buzzing about POWER6, with good reason
Server revenues were way up in Q3, and IBM lucrative System z mainframes helped lead the charge
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