Timothy Prickett Morgan

If you want to be at the top of the food chain on Earth, as human beings have ascended to after millions of years of evolution, there are a bunch of things that you need to be able to do.

COMMISSIONED: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has become the gold standard for helping businesses refine their large language model (LLM) results

Transaction processing against relational databases may not be the focus of the datacenter, as it was when IBM created the first relational database and Oracle was founded to compete against it in the late 1970s. But transaction processing – counting the money that passes between customers and the companies that serve them – is still the backbone of the economy.

Throughout the history of IBM systems, there are executives who steer the development of hardware and those that steer the development of microcode, operating systems, and other software. Still others at Big Blue manage the processor roadmaps as well as the evolution of the systems that make use of them, including all of the peripherals that go into turning central processing units into systems.

Welcome to 2025, everybody. Nothing too big has happened on the IBM i front as far as we know, excepting the appointment of a new vice president for product management for the Power Systems line, which we report on elsewhere in this issue. But a lot of little thing have happened in recent weeks that bear pointing out, including a whole lot of patching that you can get caught up on in the IBM i PTF Guide also elsewhere in this issue.

Perhaps no document has ever had a more appropriate title than the “Interim Final Rule on Artificial Intelligence Diffusion” announced by the Biden Administration and the US Department of Commerce today. It would only be sillier if the document was written in Python – as in Monty Python.

As one year ends and another begins, this is often the time when people change jobs and companies change strategies. So it is never much of a surprise to

It is not hard to figure out who is in the catbird seat in the semiconductor foundry business. In 2024, according to CC Wei, chief executive officer of

The University of Stuttgart’s High Performance Computing Center (HLRS) in Germany tapped Hewlett Packard Enterprise back in December 2023 to build a

The dependency dance between AI pioneer OpenAI and the Microsoft Azure cloud and the application software divisions of its parent company are fascinating to watch. GPT-4 training on the Azure cloud and released as an API chatbot in November 2022 has been the Bunker Hill of the GenAI revolution, and Microsoft has invested $13 billion in OpenAI so it could afford to train its ever-embiggening and ever-ensmartening GPT models on the Azure cloud.