Ibm Power 770 End Of Life

End of service eos for the remaining power 7s the power 7 plus is about a year away.
Ibm power 770 end of life. The ibm power systems information describes the ibm power systems servers. Never miss another end of service life announcement get the latest eosl information directly to your inbox. The power 770 consists of one to four cec enclosures. Select a specific version or edition of power8 documentation.
Product announcement general availability marketing withdrawal and service discontinuance. Soon all ibm power 7 machines will be history. The power 770 can be installed in a 7014 t00 7014 b42 7014 s25 or 7014 t42 and shipped from ibm to the client rack. Historically each mainframe generation has had a long life from general availability to service discontinuance averaging over 11 years.
Ibm will be discontinuing hardware support on power6 machines at end of q1 2019 and for power7 at end of q3. Upcoming ibm eosl dates. Power 770 end of service life. Preparing for ibm power7 going end of service life eosl perhaps you were fully expecting the end of service life eosl announcement for your power6 units.
In summary the products effected by this announcement are. Ibm power systems is the name of the family of servers based on power processors. If you run ibm i on ibm power systems this will hopefully come as a friendly reminder. 07 31 2020.
Get the latest end of life information for the power 770 ioc from park place technologies. Power 6 end of support date is 31st march 2019. Never miss another end of service life announcement get the latest eosl information directly to your inbox. Upcoming ibm eosl dates.
A full listing of all affected power 7 models and product names is listed in the description. The power6 iron is to really be expected. Even though the power 720 didn t seem that old it is. However the power7 iron kind of took me by surprise specifically the 8202 e4b and 8202 e4c.
Each family of the ibm z mainframe hardware products have followed a similar life cycle pattern. You bought them back in 2007 so it makes sense that ibm would already be starting the process of sunsetting them. Written by steve pitcher on september 19 2017 ibm announced that a number of machines will be going out of maintenance in the next two years. Below is a listing of the ibm features on power systems which have now been classified with an end of maintenance date.