IT Infrastructure News

IBM today announced key members of the executive team to lead the independent company that will be created following the previously announced separation of IBM’s Managed Infrastructure Services business (“NewCo”).

The leadership appointments represent an important step toward establishing an independent NewCo, which will be a global leader in the management and modernization of IT infrastructure.  The company’s new name will be announced in the coming months, and the separation is expected to occur by the end of 2021.

New CPU co-optimized for Red Hat OpenShift for enterprise hybrid cloud

By IBM Corporation

IBM today revealed the next generation of its IBM POWER central processing unit (CPU) family: IBM POWER10. Designed to offer a platform to meet the unique needs of enterprise hybrid cloud computing, the IBM POWER10 processor uses a design focused on energy efficiency and performance in a 7nm form factor with an expected improvement of up to 3x greater processor energy efficiency, workload capacity, and container density than the IBM POWER9 processor.

Remain Software delivered today its latest “Milestone” releases for the company’s three signature change-management, workflow and API editing and management tools: TD/OMS, Gravity and OpenAPI Studio.

Contributes Open Source Designs to Move Data More Quickly, Accelerating AI and Hybrid Cloud Workloads

Endorses move of OpenPOWER to The Linux Foundation to Expand Innovation Ecosystem

IBM today announced it has built Pangea III, the world's most powerful  commercial supercomputer for Total, a supermajor global energy company operating in more than 130 countries. The new IBM POWER9-based supercomputer will help Total more accurately locate new resources and better assess the potential associated revenue opportunities. In addition, according to Total Pangea III requires 1.5 Megawatts, compared to 4.5 MW for its predecessor system. Combined with the increased performance of Pangea III, Total has reported that they have observed that the new system uses less than 10% the energy consumption per petaflop as its predecessor.

New releases to the IBM Power Systems HPC software stack offer various HPC software solutions to enable IBM POWER9 HPC systems in the HPC and cognitive market.

IBM i 7.3 TR5 offers a major focus on support for the newly announced IBM Power System E980 servers. This Technology Refresh includes some significant enhancements to IBM Db2 for i, IBM Rational Developer for i, and IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS), and adds some new open source environments.