Archive for December, 2009
Port your Solaris applications to AIX 6.1 can help you reap the following benefits:
* Gain new market opportunities for your company by offering customers more choices, through leveraging IBM tools and resources for supporting new platforms * Differentiate your application by taking advantage of advanced and innovative AIX features. * Provide to your application not only flexibility and performance but also rock solid security and near-continuous availability while [...]
Moving from Solaris to AIX – Spectrum can assist or even do the migration for you…
The process of porting Solaris applications to the AIX environment sometimes can be accomplished with a simple recompile. However, at other times a successful port may require compilation, link changes or even code changes. Let’s examine some important considerations when migrating applications from Solaris to AIX. Overview Most applications are written in one or more [...]
IBM Power 520 and 550 Technical Overview
• Redpaper – IBM Power 550 Technical Overview This IBM® Redpaper™ is a comprehensive guide covering the Power 550 server. The goal of this paper is to introduce the innovative Power 550. It introduces major hardware offerings and discusses their prominent functions, including: o The POWER6 processor available at frequencies of 3.5 GHz, 4.2 GHz, [...]
Spectrum and Weta Productions (Customer Reference)
Paul, Spectrum has been incredibly helpful in working to add value to the current IBM Power Systems platform at Weta Productions. In addition, Spectrum is focused on strategic planning based on future project requirements and is working to present us with appropriate platform refresh options as budget will allow. Regards, John John McMullen | IT [...]
PM for Power Systems data collector integrated into AIX
AIX (V6.1 TL4 and V5.3 TL11) now includes an integrated performance data collector in support of Performance Management (PM) for Power Systems. This agent automatically collects non-proprietary utilization and growth data at a partition level. At the client’s option, the collected data is automatically transmitted to and …[more] AIX (V6.1 TL4 and V5.3 TL11) now [...]
AIX binary compatibility
Dear Power Systems client: We listened and we have delivered for you, and in fact we hope you have been ecstatic with the recent announcements on the AIX® 6 and POWER6™ products. Not only can the new POWER6 servers run AIX V5.2, V5.3 and AIX V6.1—with binary compatibility for applications currently running on AIX V5.1, [...]
AIX 6.1 – Upgrade to the latest now!
Highlights Latest generation of IBM’s well-proven, scalable, open standards-based UNIX® operating system Features for virtualization, security, availability and manageability designed to make AIX® 6 even more flexible, secure and available than previous versions Built on IBM POWER6™ technology and virtualization to help deliver superior performance, increase system utilization and efficiency, provide for easy administration and [...]