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IBM i 7.3 (V7R3), available since 15/04/2016, will be withdrawn from marketing on 28/04/2023 and discontinued of support on 30/09/2023 : Start planning for an upgrade ! More information from IBM ... IBM also announced (back in July) the end of service of the E850 (not...

A technology preview of the new IBM i Access Client Solutions product has been available since July 2012. Getting connected to IBM i has never been easier. Hundreds of businesses have already downloaded this product (at no additional cost) and are taking advantage of...

IBM Power10 Scale-Out and Midrange Servers were announced on 12/07/2022 and available (GA) on 22/07/2022. IBM Power servers are already the most reliable and secure in their class. Now, the new IBM Power S10xx (9105-xxA) technology-based server extends that leadership...

Power10 is a superscalar, multithreading, multi-core microprocessor family, based on the open source Power ISA, and announced in August 2020 at the Hot Chips conference. Systems with Power10 CPUs are generally available from September 2021 with the IBM Power10...

IBM discontinued the AS/400 over 20 years ago : In 1988, the AS/400 was launched, replacing the old System/3x range In 2000, AS/400 was replaced by a new system : the IBM iSeries In 2006, iSeries was replaced by a new system : the IBM System i In 2008, System i was...

IBM i 7.5 (V7R5) is out there : announced on 03/05/2022 and available (GA) on 10/05/2022 ! IBM announced the new version IBM i 7.5 (V7R5). Its availability is scheduled for May 10, 2022 ... about 3 years after the release of V7R4. Only Power9 and Power10 servers will...

Deep Blue was a chess-playing expert system run on a unique purpose-built IBM supercomputer. It was the first computer to win a game, and the first to win a match, against a reigning world champion under regular time controls. Development began in 1985 at Carnegie...

Hybrid cloud integrates public cloud services, private cloud services and on-premises infrastructure and provides orchestration, management and application portability across all three. The result is a single, unified and flexible distributed computing environment...

The IBM System/3 was an IBM midrange computer introduced in 1969, and marketed until 1985. It was produced by IBM Rochester in Minnesota as a low-end business computer aimed at smaller organizations that still used IBM 1400 series computers or unit record equipment....

Power ISA is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) currently developed by the OpenPOWER Foundation, led by IBM. It was originally developed by IBM and the now-defunct Power.org industry group. Power ISA is an evolution of the...