Basic information

Name: IBM Power Systems

Target users: industry – wholesale and retail distribution, banking and financial services, insurance, transportation and automotive industry.

Processor: POWER7

Supported operating systems: IBM i, AIX, Linux

Supported database: IBM DB2, My SQL
IBM DB2 is an integrated database for the IBM i platform. It consists of a combination of a relation database, SQL standards, native support for XML, control of advanced database accessories, security and web services.

DB2 offers additional middleware components:

  • multiple file system offers
  • capacities list,
  • HTTP Apache web-server,
  • web application server,
  • environment for web-service,
  • outstanding environment for running business applications.

This database comes free-of-charge in the IBM DB2 Express-C version. More about IBM DB2

Supported software technologies:

  • Power VM virtualizing system
  • Power HA increased access system
  • IBM Systems Director platform and energy control system

More about IBM technologies for IBM Power Systems in the document IBM Systems and Technology >>