Ron Venzin
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What IBM i Shops Are Thinking About Right Now
October 30, 2023 Ron Venzin
If you listen to the national and global media, it is hard to figure out what is really going on in the world at the strategic and tactical levels of individual companies. The global happenings are like climate trends, but each company generates its own weather and reacts to the weather generated by the customers and competitors in its own market. Or markets, as the case may be.
Because we all live in the weather as we are trying to keep an eye on the climate – people really do talk about the economic climate but no one talks about …
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We Are Filling Our Talent Pool Because Yours Is Going To Drain
June 21, 2023 Ron Venzin
Back in the early days of corporate computing, when it was called data processing, the people who managed and programmed what became known as IT systems came from all walks of life. More times than not, the VPDP – that’s Vice President of Data Processing, a title that predates the concept of Manager of Information Systems and was decades earlier than the idea of Chief Information Officer – often came from the accounting department. But the people who worked for the VPDP were a hodge-podge of smart and curious people looking for something new and interesting to do.
Here …
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Managed Cloud Saves Money By Cutting System And People Overprovisioning
June 22, 2022 Ron Venzin
For most IBM i shops in the world, a unit of compute, storage, or networking on a cloud or a unit of time for a skilled IT specialist is always going to cost more than what it costs to have such talent in house. And so, you would think, putting an IBM i system in the cloud and managing all aspects of that system will always cost companies more money, right?
Wrong.
Here’s the part of the math that people rarely do, and that we do each time we close another cloud and managed services deal for an IBM i …
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With IBM i Security, You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know
March 23, 2022 Ron Venzin
It is not enough to be worried late into the night about the security of your mission critical systems. The IT managers who are in control of the infrastructure at IBM i shops, who also have a lot of Windows Server infrastructure and a smattering of Linux and AIX systems, too, need to actually do something about security. And they have to do something more than just rely on the legendary security of the IBM i platform.
Security software for the IBM i platform has been around since the early days of the commercial Internet, and while a handful of …
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