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Technical articles on IBM Power8 end-of-support, third-party maintenance, security risk, backup and disaster recovery, and migration planning.
Backup, HA, and DR on an Unsupported Power8 System
With IBM no longer shipping parts or firmware fixes, your backup and disaster-recovery posture becomes the thing standing between a hardware failure and real downtime.
Migrating Off Power8 Without Rewriting Your Applications
IBM Power's binary compatibility means your applications usually survive a hardware refresh unmodified. The real migration work is in the infrastructure around them.
The IBM i 7.4 Ceiling: What It Means for Power8
IBM i 7.5 dropped Power8 support entirely, making IBM i 7.4 a hard software ceiling ... and that ceiling itself loses support on September 30, 2026.
Third-Party Maintenance for Power8, Explained
What a TPM contract actually covers, what it does not, and how to evaluate whether it is the right bridge for your Power8 system.
What IBM Power8 End of Support Actually Means
End of support is not a shutdown switch. Here is exactly what changes ... and what doesn't ... when an IBM Power8 model passes its IBM end-of-service date.