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 ...

IBM said it unified the two servers as a way to increase application choice, reduce energy and administration costs and simplify pricing. The Power Systems servers incorporate POWER6 processors, and ...

If you’ve got a bunch of underutilized x86 systems running Linux, you’re probably thinking virtualization as a way to rid your data center of unnecessary – and power hungry – hardware. Last week, IBM ...

Big Blue on Monday said it is OEMing its System p Application Virtual Environment (System p AVE) software from Transitive, a Los Gatos, Calif.-based company that develops technology that allows ...

IBM released open beta software Monday that enables x86 Linux applications to run on IBM’s System p servers. The IBM System p Application Virtual Environment (System p AVE) is designed to allow some 2 ...

IBM's midrange computer family, which uses IBM's POWER CPUs. In 2008, IBM merged its System i and System p hardware into the Power Systems brand. It was an easy transition as both System i business ...

IBM has released a new beta software program that allows Linux based x86 apps to run on the company's PowerPC Unix servers. The new software, called IBM System p Application Virtual Environment, uses ...

IBM has today announced the availability of an open beta version of its virtual Linux environment to enable x86 Linux applications to run without modification on POWER processor-based IBM System p ...

The S1 Postilion Group, a leading provider of payments and transaction management solutions, and IBM today announced the general availability of Postilion software for IBM System p servers running DB2 ...