Hot News - AIX 7.1

Fast Track Your Commands with a Subshell

Anthony English — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:21:00 GMT

One way of leveraging the shell is to run a subshell. That's simply getting a parent process to kick off a child process, wait for the result and do something with it. This tip gives you three examples which I've found handy on the command line. You can probably think of many others.

AIX Product Manager Reveals Method Behind AIX Technology Levels and Service Packs Madness

Chris Maxcer — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:39:00 GMT

For a peek inside IBM’s thinking around how the company rolls out AIX fixes like Technology Levels and Service Packs, Jay Kruemcke, AIX product manager at IBM for Power Systems, posted an explanation on his The secret product manager blog site.

Kruemcke says he’s been getting a few questions about the fix and update process, such as, “Why does a new Service Pack come out at the same time as a new Technology Level?”

Tuning for 10G

Mel Beckman — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:16:00 GMT

When exploiting the massive consolidation resources of IBM's newest Power 6 & 7 systems, the most common resource to run out of first is network capacity. Unlike CPU and memory capacity, which can scale by a factor of 100 or more, network capacity can only increase by a factor of 10, from 1G to 10G Ethernet. Given this upper boundary on a single Ethernet channel, it's critical that you tune your system—and your network—to make efficient use of this resource.

Managing Data Centers Much More Than Managing Operating Systems

Chris Maxcer — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 03:20:00 GMT

We’re in for a treat come Thursday when Greg Hintermeister, who happens to be an IBM Master Inventor (coolest title ever), shows us how to manage our Power/AIX environments with IBM Systems Director at our Power IT Pro virtual event.

In the description of his session, he mentions that managing a data center is a lot harder than managing just operating systems -- successful administrators have to manage server hardware, how it's virtualized, how network and storage are integrated, plus the operating systems running the workloads. But Hintermeister will show you how to manage all of these layers by focusing on just five key areas. And what are those areas? I reached out to Hintermeister to find out.

Hands-On with AIX 7 on Tap for Thursday

Chris Maxcer — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 01:01:00 GMT

With Thursday sprinting toward us, I reached out to Rob McNelly, an expert with IBM’s AIX 7, among lots more -- he is an IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert (CATE), after all. And what’s so important about Thursday?

Thursday is the day we broadcast our Power IT Pro virtual conference (it’s free, btw). Among 8 Power-packed sessions and a virtual exhibit hall, McNelly is delivering, “Hands-On with AIX 7.”

Beckman on Linux on Power at Virtual Event Next Week

Chris Maxcer — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 01:02:00 GMT

Mel Beckman, our senior technical director for Power IT Pro, will be delivering just one of many free sessions on Power System tips and technology next week during our Power IT Pro Virtual Conference. We’re pretty excited about the event, mostly because we know it’s jam-packed with excellence. (And you can’t beat the price!) Of course, topics: IBM Senior Engineer Jim Mitchell will outline IBM’s Power Systems strategy and directions in the keynote, followed by a hands-on with AIX 7 session by Rob McNelly.

IBM Makes Big Power Announcements: Hardware, Software, Cloud

Mark Donahue — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:46:00 GMT

IBM made a slew of announcements last week for Power Systems during its Power Tech University conference, which saw everything from Power box upgrades to a Starter Kit for Cloud on Power to a new version of Rational Developer for Power Systems Software, among others. Read on to get the full details.

Skybot Software Releases Live Demo of Enterprise Job Scheduler for AIX Servers

Mark Donahue — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 23:02:00 GMT

Skybot Software has announced the release of a free live demo for Skybot Scheduler, its Web-based enterprise job scheduling and workload automation solution for Windows, UNIX (Solaris, AIX, HP-UX), and Linux servers.

BlueCross Completes Enterprise-wide Data Encryption with AIX in the Mix

Mark Donahue — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:47:00 GMT

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee has completed a $6 million effort to encrypt all at-rest data throughout its enterprise to increase the security around its members' personal information. The effort includes servers running AIX.

InMage Enhances Enterprise Features in New Release of AIX-supported Backup and Recovery Software

Mark Donahue — Tue, 17 May 2011 23:28:00 GMT

InMage, a disk-based, business application recovery solutions vendor for both physical and virtualized environments, today announced version 6.0 of its InMage Scout backup and disaster recovery software, which supports AIX. Based on continuous data protection (CDP) technology, InMage Scout targets local backup and replication of physical and virtual environments. With this latest release, InMage Scout features best-in-class, CDP-based backup and remote disaster recovery support for most major enterprise platforms, including Windows, AIX, Linux, VMware, Solaris, XenServer and Hyper-V. It also features both asynchronous IP and synchronous FC-based data protection, with no software-based storage virtualization necessary for customers.