IBM Power11 · Server Announcement & Deep Dive  How IBM's smallest Power 11 system yet ...model numbers 9242-21B (rack) and 9242-21T (tower) ...anchors IBM's push into autonomous IT and agentic IBM i development.   On July 15, 2026, IBM announced three things at once, and taken together they say more about where IBM Power is headed than any one of them says alone. The company introduced IBM Power Autonomous Operations, an AI agent for running Power infrastructure through conversation instead of dashboards. It formally tied that release to the recently launched IBM Bob™ Premium Package for i, an agentic development assistant...

IBM Power11 S1112 Compared with Power10 S1014, Power10 S1012, Power9 S914, and Power8 S814 IBM Power Systems have advanced substantially across the Power8, Power9, Power10, and Power11 generations. For organizations evaluating an IBM i Power system in the P05 software tier, the IBM S1112 provides the strongest comparison baseline because it is the newest platform and has the highest maximum CPW rating of all the Power system models compared. The systems and configurations included in this comparison are: IBM Power11 S1112, machine type 9242-21B, EJMT 4-Core ProcessorIBM Power10 S1014, machine type 9105-41B, EPG0 4-Core ProcessorIBM Power10 S1012, machine type 9028-21B, EPG3...

Now that the IBM Power S1112 has been announced, Let's see how it compares to the previous generations of P05 Tier systems, especially the Power10 S1012 and S1014, along with the Power9 S914 and Power8 S814. After reviewing the specifications, a few trends stand out. If you're coming from a Power10 system, the performance increase is modest. The four-core Power S1112 9242-21B delivers about 5% more CPW than a four-core S1012 and about 10% more than a four-core S1014. Those aren't dramatic increases, but they aren't the whole story either. The memory improvements are just as interesting. The IBM i P05 software...

IBM i Virtual Tape Library (VTL) Solutions for Faster Backups and RestoresReplace traditional LTO tape bottlenecks with a high-performance IBM i VTL built for IBM i systems and dramatically shrink backup windows, improve restore speeds, reduce manual tape handling, scale and consolidate backups across all systems. Why switch from LTO Tape to a VTL for IBM i backups?SPEED: Compared with traditional LTO tape drives, an IBM i Virtual Tape Library can more than double the speed of the fastest IBM LTO 9 tape drive and even more so dramatically improve restore performance. The slowest IBM i VTL model delivers 1 GB/s...