IBM is merging two of its server lines — System i and System p — into a single family of products, a move that was widely applauded but led some to ask: What took you so long? When the two server ...

The New Zealand government is abandoning its IBM System i server platform for e-government applications, mandating a switch to a more standard x86 architecture. Jason Ryan, spokesman for the State ...

IBM’s System i computers — formerly known as the AS/400 and iSeries servers — have long enjoyed a reputation for rock-solid reliability. But poor security practices by those who manage these systems ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

IBM raised the stakes in its competition with Dell Inc. for small business users on Thursday by launching a System i server configured for customers with 100 seats or fewer of SAP AG’s business ...

Organizations should consider whether they can make the existing system an active participant in an AI-driven operation rather than a barrier to one.

Back in December, IBM announced the first phase of its POWER9 products—its first POWER9 chip and its first POWER9-based server (read my full write-up of the announcement here). Now IBM has officially ...

We have argued, even a decade and a half before The Next Platform was founded, that no one would ever move all of their IT infrastructure to a utility, what we now call a public cloud. And as the ...

It is frustrating sometimes how IT vendors talk about themselves, particularly when it comes to public companies and those rare few who report financial results even though they are privately held.

In many ways, the modern computer era began in the New Englander Motor Hotel in Greenwich, Connecticut. It was there in 1961 that a task force of top IBM engineers met in secret to figure out how to ...