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  • The Server Refresh Cycle Loses Steam

    June 13, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    With one way of looking at it, the server market that drives the IT business is very mature and relatively flat, which shows demand for compute (and in some cases storage) remains steady and healthy. But in another way of looking at it, in a world obsessed by growth and often demanding it to drive revenues, profits, and stock prices, the server market has taken a dip and this is bad news.

    Which way is it? Like an electron, perhaps, it is neither and both at the same time.

    What we can tell you is that the box counters at

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  • For Sale: IBM i Is A Buyer’s Market

    June 6, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    There is an old adage that it is 10 times as expensive to acquire a new customer as it is to keep an existing one happy. I think that whoever lived in those times and coined that phrase did not live in an economic period dominated by the cheap money that was made available–some would say necessary–to keep the global economy humming along or recovering relatively quickly when it falters.

    I think it is maybe a hundred or a thousand times easier to buy a company with a set of established customers than it is to acquire them one at

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  • HelpSystems Fills Encryption Gap With Linoma Buy

    June 6, 2016 Alex Woodie

    Despite all the IBM i security vendors that HelpSystems has bought over the years–and there have been at least five of them–the company has lacked one key security capability valued by enterprises: encryption. With last week’s deal to acquire Linoma Software, the Minneapolis software vendor has finally obtained that encryption capability for IBM i.

    HelpSystems has been experiencing heavy demand for IBM i encryption capabilities, says CEO Chris Heim. “I wouldn’t say we lost sales because of it, but we definitely wanted to offer a full solution to our customers and that’s why we wanted to check that encryption

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  • Modernization Prioritization Based On Observation

    June 6, 2016 Dan Burger

    Amidst all the chatter in the IBM midrange community, nothing rises above the catch-all category of modernization. Just about anything that’s done to the system, including brushing the dust off an old AS/400, seems to qualify as modernization. But, after separating the wheat from the chaff, there is real modernization being done and with it comes the realization that the IBM i is as modern as you allow it to be.

    After years of Earl Scheib paint jobs–We’ll paint your car for $99–modernization efforts have become better planned, better executed, and better suited for a future that extends

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  • Mad Dog 21/21: Qubit’s Rubes

    June 6, 2016 Hesh Weiner

    In May, IBM said it would give the public a free taste of quantum computing: IBM is providing free access to a five-qubit quantum processor in the cloud, surrounded by support facilities to enable friendly experimentation. The offering has garnered a lot of favorable press coverage. This stunt is reminiscent of the unveiling of Angler, an augmented cell phone first shown at Comdex in 1992 to press acclaim. Two years later, in August 1994, Angler had evolved into an actual IBM product, the Simon Personal Communicator. Six months and 50,000 units later, Simon was gone.

    IBM Simon:

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  • Learning From Experience

    June 6, 2016 Dan Burger

    I’ve got good news and bad news. I’ll give you the good news first. We’re never too old to learn something new. The bad news? Don’t ever expect to graduate. Learning is a never-ending process, or at least is should be. Taking breaks from learning is a good idea, but calling it quits is not. My mother used to tell me: What counts most is what you allow yourself to learn after you think you know enough.

    While attending the COMMON Annual Meeting and Exposition a couple of weeks ago in New Orleans, I met with Kevin Mort and Manzoor

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  • Fresche Brings the Heat(map) to Legacy Modernization

    June 1, 2016 Alex Woodie

    Before embarking upon a legacy modernization project, it’s important to do your homework. Not all IBM i screens are equal, but figuring out which ones are the most widely used is neither easy nor straightforward. This is the challenge that application modernization vendor Fresche Legacy hopes to resolve with the new heatmap solution that it’s building for its Newlook modernization suite.

    Guessing how users interact with legacy IBM i applications can lead to erroneous conclusions about how to proceed with legacy modernization. Instead, Fresche says the new heatmap software it’s developing will allow customers to gather usage data from the

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  • Profound Logic Taps Node.js and COBOL For New Directions

    June 1, 2016 Dan Burger

    We’re hearing a lot about Node.js as open source topics are discussed with greater frequency in the IBM i community. On the other hand, COBOL gets far less attention than it deserves considering that 80 percent of enterprise business applications run on this sturdy code. Profound Logic, one of several IBM i vendors leading the way in modernization efforts, is including both these languages in its product roadmap. Profound’s CEO Alex Roytman explains why and why now.

    Let’s begin with Node.js. IBM i support for open source software has increased in recent years, but open source is not new

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  • CNX Widens Reach with Sencha Deal, Focus on Modernization

    June 1, 2016 Alex Woodie

    Look out: CNX is going global. The Chicago-based provider of IBM i development tools just signed a partnership deal with Sencha that will see the Silicon Valley firm distributing Valence around the world. CNX also just released Valence version 5, which brings a number of new features, including a stronger focus on modernizing RPG applications.

    Scott Mullarkey, Sencha’s vice president of global alliances and professional services, says CNX’s desire to have a global footprint led to an extension of the OEM partnership the two companies signed in 2008.

    “Ninety-five percent of their [CNX’s] business is U.S.-based. They do not have

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  • ARCAD ‘DROPS’ Deployment Management Into DevOps Pack

    June 1, 2016 Dan Burger

    If you could improve your application and systems software management, what would be the overall effect on your organization be? Greater efficiency and higher productivity come to mind. And the ripple effect touches nearly every employee, customer and business partner. In organizations that depend on the IBM i running on Power Systems, the focus typically begins on the system and on technical components. For the greater good, a multi-platform approach that focuses on functions is the better choice.

    Application development is the backbone of many IBM midrange shops and managing that function has led to greater efficiencies through the planning,

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