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  • HelpSystems Adds SkyView Partners To Its Security Assets

    June 8, 2015 Dan Burger

    The IBM midrange has undergone a transformation in the past 10 years. Technologically? Yes, but there’s also an evolving process of vendor acquisitions and an increased interest in managed services. Last week we saw another prize claimed by HelpSystems as it purchased the security vendor SkyView Partners. The move signals HelpSystems’ interest in developing security as a service for IBM i shops with little or no time to accomplish security initiatives.

    The SkyView acquisition is not the first IBM i security company scooped up by HelpSystems. It acquired both PowerTech and Bytware in 2008, and then Safestone in 2012,

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  • Enterprise Server Refresh Cycle Gathers Momentum

    June 8, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    The server refresh cycle is picking up steam, with the market turning in one of the best spurts of growth in the first quarter in many a year and reversing a slight downward trend in server revenues across all vendors and machine types that has been putting pressure on vendors for the past several years since the big bounce after the Great Recession recovery. Some big deals at hyperscale companies, in fact, allowed sales in Q1 2015 to more or less match levels set in the second and third quarters of last year.

    According to the IDC quarterly server tracker,

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  • Managed Service Provider Picks Its Niche

    June 8, 2015 Dan Burger

    If you’re a traditional IBM midrange shop, the idea of managed services provided by a vendor may seem as unlikely as commuting to work in George Jetson’s flying car. But then how do you explain all the managed service providers lining up to do business in the IBM i community? They are all jockeying for position in anticipation of trend toward outsourcing pieces of IT and in some cases, all of IT. Focal Point Solutions Group is carving out a space of its own.

    Here’s a scenario that is not uncommon. An organization is running important applications on the IBM

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  • As I See It: Listen Up And Ignore Me

    June 8, 2015 Victor Rozek

    There’s an old chestnut that says you should hire the young while they still know it all. And what a bargain! Insecurity and confusion masked by arrogance and bravado, all at entry level prices. Who could resist? It’s the curse of the human condition that each generation must learn all things afresh. Unfortunately, ignorance coupled with limited experience offer a ready foundation for making poor career choices–decisions that can color a lifetime.

    And once mistakes codify into lifestyles, they become very hard to correct. By middle age, bad career choices manifest in resentment and regret. I know of no one

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  • Should We Just Call It Power i Now?

    June 8, 2015 Alex Woodie

    “What’s in a name?” Shakespeare wrote so eloquently hundreds of years ago. “That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.” Words may be imperfect representations for the things we encounter in real life, but even the Bard realized that words nonetheless carry a certain power and have a certain life of their own. And when it comes to the midrange server platform that we all know and love, what we call it is a discussion all its own.

    The platform’s official name, per IBM, is “IBM i on IBM Power Systems.” This name

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  • Power8 Iron Gets New I/O Options

    June 1, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    As part of the rollout of slightly faster processors for the entry Power8 processors and the fleshing out of the high-end of the Power Systems line a month ago, IBM rolled out a bunch of new peripheral features and a new set of peripheral expansion units that will allow for Power8 shops both high and low to expand the amount of PCI-Express 3.0 peripherals that companies can attach to their systems than is currently possible on these machines.

    Such I/O and storage expansion is important, given the ever-increasing amount of compute and memory that is being put into ever-smaller system

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  • Thoughts On The Power E850 And I/O Contraction

    June 1, 2015 Hey, TPM

    Sorry to be so late making my comment about your very good article concerning the Power E850 and IBM i. I agree with most of what you said in the article. I have had a couple of exciting conversations about the Power E850 with Mark Olson, who is an old friend from my Rochester days. The E850 brings back memories of when I worked for Rochester as the interface with Software Group and we were always two years behind on support for all the WebSphere products. It was all about the optics of being behind, not about the immediate need

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  • For OpenLegacy, Modernization Is All About the APIs

    June 1, 2015 Alex Woodie

    Modernization means different things to different people. For some in the IBM i space, being modern means adopting a model-view-controller architecture or having a Web user interface, while for others it may mean having a “mobile first” development strategy or using SQL in the database. For the folks at OpenLegacy, modernization means exposing existing business processes using the emerging lingua franca of network-powered computing: The API.

    While OpenLegacy is, ostensibly, a provider of open source legacy modernization tools for IBM i and z/OS shops (it’s right there in the name), the path to modernization that it prescribes is by

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  • Maxava Builds On IBM i Sustainability Efforts

    June 1, 2015 Dan Burger

    Corporate citizenship benefits the community. It helps create and maintain a healthy ecosystem for companies that are invested in the IBM i platform and the dedicated, career-oriented people with jobs that are tied to the system. Not everyone has to contribute to the community, but those that do improve the environment for everyone. Maxava, the New Zealand high availability and disaster recovery software vendor, is a shining example of a company actively supporting IBM i sustainability.

    This will be the fifth consecutive year Maxava has supported the IBM midrange community by offering grants to help fund user group activities

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  • SQL Query And Report Tool Gets The ProData Treatment

    June 1, 2015 Dan Burger

    SQL/Pro 5.0 is the latest in a long line of hard-working IBM midrange computing utilities produced and perfected by ProData Computer Services. Data access, data integration, and the DB2 relational database are ProData’s specialty. The key to the IBM i platform is its database and how developers create applications that ride on top of it. And when it comes to programmer productivity, the Omaha-based tech company gets it. Any database-related development work is going to involve SQL.

    Years ago, when IBM i was known as OS/400, SQL was an unwelcomed stranger. It’s funny how things have changed for those

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