Doug McMaster and John Klockenkemper

Doug McMaster is chief executive officer at CloudSAFE, and John Klockenkemper is vice president of public cloud.

Who To Consult With On Your Cloud Strategy, And Who To Manage It

May 18, 2026 Doug McMaster and John Klockenkemper

If you run IBM i, you already know what operational discipline looks like. Tightly governed security models. Decades of validated business logic embedded in RPG and DB2 for i. Systems of record that have been running continuously since before “the cloud” was anything more than a weather term. Your platform is not fragile – it is, in many ways, the most stable and secure thing in your data center.

But the world around IBM i has changed. As we discussed in our previous IT Jungle article, the latest IBM i Marketplace Survey data confirms what most shops already know: …
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