Big Blue thinks small, again, with 2U POWER tower

The last proprietary minicomputer, now in ‘deskside’ form if you fancy that

IBM has again teased small hardware, this time in the form of an update for its smallest POWER server.

The model S1112, teased Tuesday in a customer announcement, is a 2U, single-socket POWER11 server IBM offers in rack-mountable and what the company calls “Tower/deskside configuration.”

The rackable model can handle a ten-core POWER processor. The Tower/deskside form factor machine must make do with a four-core engine

IBM seems to have two roles in mind for the new machines: edge deployments and standalone use by those who are taking their first strides into using the last remaining proprietary minicomputer ecosystem.

One is edge deployments. The other is as an entry-level box, with the description of the tower unit suggesting its very existence means “even the smallest customers” can use it as an on-ramp to more POWER implementations.

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