IBM Adds 64-Way pSeries, iSeries
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OCTOBER 18, 2004  - IBM last week completed its lineup of servers based on its Power5 chips by adding high-end pSeries and iSeries models that can support up to 64 processors, double the previous threshold for CPUs.
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IBM Friday said it has filled out gaps in its virtualization portfolio, adding support for EMC&#39;s remaining Clariion systems. The company added Clariion 300, 500 and 700 systems support for its SAN Volume Controller
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A virtualization option will be available for the systems, which are based on 1.5- or 1.6-GHz Power5 processors. By Darrell Dunn. IBM on Monday introduced a new line of Linux servers intended to compete with
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IBM is looking to get a leg up on the competition with the October 15 launch of eServer 326, a rack-mounted server that supports AMD&#39;s upcoming dual-core 64-bit processor.
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IBM on Friday is scheduled to make available early versions of three grid-based technologies intended to help corporate and third-party developers better manage grid-based resources as a way to solve large and compute-intensive problems.
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IBM next month will finish transitioning its core pSeries and iSeries server lines to the Power5 chip when it starts shipping three new high-end systems, two of which support as many as 64 processors.
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Ivo Jansch has a recent post made the other day that takes a look at one of the recent offerings from IBM targeted at PHP developers - the functionality to allow PHP to run on their System i platform.   Some of the developers at Ibuildings are working with PHP on IBM's System-i platform. If that name doesn't ring a bell, it has been called 'iSeries' for a while and it's basically a new name for the old AS/400. [...] Recently IBM and Zend have teamed up to port PHP to the i5/OS operating system. So far this port seems succesful; one of the reasons is perhaps that PHP is easier to adopt by traditional System-i developers than Java, which forces you to learn Object Oriented Programming.   He makes mention of the db2 database extension you can use to access the database as well as a "i5 toolkit" to help with the same. He even links to an article talking about it.
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InfoWorld - Continuing to pound away at the low end of the Unix market, IBM on Tuesday rolled out its first less-than-&#36;4,000 pSeries server, which the company hopes will attract first-time users looking to blend existing Unix- and Linux-based environments.
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(InfoWorld) - IBMÂ hopes to bring BI to a wider audience of midmarket customers with a new software stack developed in partnership with Business Objects SA, industry sources said. The stack includes IBM's DB2 Data Warehouse Edition, Business Objects' Crystal Decisions, and a version of the Linux OS from Red Hat or Novell, the sources said. The products have been integrated and come on a single disk so they can be installed on a server at the customer's premises to get a BI system up and running quickly, the sources said. IBM has worked to simplify the installation process by automating setup and configuration tasks, reducing room for error. The result is a BI appliance that can be set up and ready to load data far more quickly than most BI systems today, according to one source. The software is expected to be announced in the coming weeks and shown at the Cebit trade show in Germany later this month. A shipping date wasn't available, and representatives from IBM and Business Objects declined to comment. The product is being tested by some customers now, a source said. It comes at an interesting time for BI software, which is used by companies to collect and analyze data and help them improve the performance of their business. On Thursday,Â Oracle announced a deal to acquire BI software company Hyperion SolutionsÂ for $3.3 billion, and analysts predict more consolidation as big vendors like IBMÂ and MicrosoftÂ add further BI capabilities to their products. The product from IBM is an attempt to make BI more appealing to midsize customers -- a market Business Objects has been targeting with its recently launched Business Objects Crystal Decisions. It may be followed by similar products from IBM aimed at bigger companies and with software from other partners. The new product is a "soft appliance," or a stack of software for a specific task delivered ready to install on a server. It differs from a true appliance server, in which the software and hardware are delivered together with the software preinstalled. Some other vendors, notably Netezza, sell data warehousing appliances with some analytics capabilities built in. IBM may be going a step further by including third-party BI tools as well -- although analysts said it's difficult to tell how innovative the product is without having seen it. Alys Woodward, an analyst with IDC, called it a new approach for IBM and one that validates the server appliance model. It could also help Business Objects to fend off a challenge in the midmarket from Microsoft, which has been adding BI capabilities to its SQL Server database, she said. Ian Charlesworth, an analyst with Ovum, said Business Objects was the right partner for IBM to pick. "Crystal Decisions is very popular. It's easy to install, and it's lightweight. If you were looking to do a one-disk install, that would probably be the best one you could choose," he said. Each server can scale up to about a terabyte of data, and an entry-level system for 100GB of data could be priced at around $25,000, including the hardware and software, a source said. Jonathan Eunice, an analyst with Illuminata, called it an attractive entry price, although the value of the system will depend on its performance capabilities and other parameters, he said.
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IBM moved back into the iSCSI (Internet SCSI) market Friday with a new array priced at US$3,000 and aimed at the small and midsize business market.
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) has announced an initiative to make Linux applications available across the company's entire hardware line.
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IBM's new chip works in 64-processor servers and contains features to let users cap system power consumption.
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(InfoWorld) - IBM Corp. on Wednesday unveiled three server offerings aimed at helping companies of all sizes consolidate Web-tier Linux servers in their IT environments. In a press conference at the Linuxworld OpenSolutions Summit in New York, Scott Handy, vice president of worldwide Linux strategy for IBM, said the new offerings will help customers consolidate the more than 1.6 million Linux servers that are present in both heterogeneous and open-source IT environments. The new servers are for small and midsize businesses as well as the enterprise market. The highest end of the three new offerings, the IBM System p5 560Q, includes advanced virtualization features, such as IBM's Advanced Power Virtualization, which runs multiple partitions per processor. This allows a customer to consolidate 320 x86-based Linux Web servers on to just one rack of five of the new servers, Handy said. For small and midsize businesses, IBM is offering Linux server consolidation offerings on its blade servers, Handy said. For medium-size companies, the company unveiled the BladeCenter JS21 for Web Serving Farms. JS21 is a BladeCenter chassis with 14 JS21 blades, and also includes IBM's Advanced Power Virtualization. Customers can consolidate 168 Linux x86 servers onto just one BladeCenter Chassis with 14 blades, according to IBM. Small businesses also can consolidate 12 x86 Linux servers on IBM Bladecenter, using one or two JS21 blades and Advanced Power Virtualization, according to IBM. Another option for small businesses is to consolidate the same amount of Linux servers onto a quad-core System p5 505Q Express server, the company said. In addition to the new consolidation offerings, which Handy said customers requested, IBM also expanded a deal with Novell Inc. to offer an open-source software stack that includes Suse Linux to its Power and BladeCenter servers. The Integrated Stack for Suse Linux Enterprise combines Novell's Linux OS with a license-free version of IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition with Web-tier clustering support and IBM DB2 Express-C, a community version of IBM's database server. It also includes software from Centeris, the Likewise Management Suite, which enables system administrators to manage Linux servers from within an existing Windows server environment, IBM said. The offering previously had only been available for IBM's x line of servers. Handy said IBM has shipped more than 1,000 servers with the Integrated Stack for Suse Linux Enterprise since it became generally available in the third quarter of 2006. The software suite was announced at Linuxworld Boston last April, he added.
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IBM is to introduce the first of a range of low-cost Linux-only servers based on its 64-bit Power 5 chip in a bid to attack the low-end Sun Microsystems and HP Unix user bases.
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IBM has filled out the top end of its eServer range with three multiple-processor systems aimed at datacentres and large enterprise clients.
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On Tuesday, Microsoft unveiled the 2004 version of its Host Integration Server (HIS) product, which is designed to integrate IBM mainframes and servers with Windows systems.
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InfoWorld - IBM on Tuesday announced two new storage products &#8211; upper midrange and high-end disk arrays designed for ease of use and lower cost. The DS6000 and DS8000 feature higher physical storage capacities, a modular architecture, and additional visualization technology, all in systems considerably smaller than previous versions.