System i Addict

Nothing says you are moving forward like talking about VM. And no one not even Sun can hold a candle to what IBM can do in the virtualization space much less tell anyone they have a better product. I know that for fact.

IBM’s partitioning is tested and true and was on the Mainframe S/390 long before it every saw the light of day on any Sun platform. HPUX isn’t even in the same zip code right now either.

VMWare is a player in the market and while VMware is doing neat things, IBM beat them to the punch long ago when you could partition up a single pSeries or iSeries server into many server without much thought, only no one was calling it VM at the time.

Now with the platform, POWER, VM on Power is real and well over 10 years old not to mention all the years before that on the S/390 and before. IBM this week really put things into high gear with PowerVM and the logo is spiffy too.