TFH Volume: 28 Issue: 2 Archives

Power Systems And The Spectre And Meltdown Threats

January 10, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Speculative execution is something that has been part of modern processors for well over a decade, and while it is hard to quantify how much of a performance benefit this collection of techniques have delivered, it is obviously significant enough that all CPUs, including IBM Power and System z chips, have them. And that, as the new Spectre and Meltdown security holes that were announced by Google on January 3 show, turns out to be a big problem.

Without getting too deep into the technical details, there are many different ways to implement speculative execution, which is used to …
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Three IBM i Trends To Watch This Year

January 10, 2018 Alex Woodie

Happy New Year! As we roll out of bed and shake off the cobwebs of 2017, it’s worth taking some time to think about what 2018 will bring to the IBM i ecosystem, and what it could mean to IBM i professionals, in hopes of getting off to a hot (or maybe just less cold) start to the new year.

Here are three big trends to keep an eye on as the months gradually turn into a year. It starts off with everybody’s favorite topic, security.

1. Focus on Security

When the calendar flipped to 2017, there was a palpable …
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Syncsort Strikes Again, Buys Trader’s For HA

January 10, 2018 Alex Woodie

Syncsort yesterday announced the acquisition of Trader’s, the French firm behind the Quick-EDD line of high availability software for the IBM i server. It’s the second deal for an IBM i software firm in as many months for Syncsort, which nabbed HA giant Vision Solutions last summer.

The deal for Trader’s gives Syncsort and Vision Solutions a third major high availability product to sell, in addition to the iTera Availability and MIMIX Availability products. Perhaps more importantly, Trader’s gives Syncsort a stronger global presence, particularly in Europe but also Asia.

“The addition of Trader’s extends our market-leading position in providing …
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Four Hundred Monitor, January 10

January 10, 2018 Dan Burger

Simultaneously looking forward and looking back does not require eyes in the back of your head. It does require good vision in both directions though. What we’ve learned in the past year (and the years before that) are lessons that are useful in moving organizations forward. Maybe you missed some technology that came to market under your radar. That’s where a guy like Paul Tuohy comes in handy. Tuohy doesn’t miss much when it comes to IBM i application development. Here’s what he saw in the past year that can be useful in the years ahead. And there’s more than …
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IBM i PTF Guide, The Last Four Weeks

January 10, 2018 Doug Bidwell

IT Jungle went on hiatus in the middle of December, as it does every year, but the PTF beat just keeps on rolling even if the presses don’t. So that means we have a backlog of IBM i PTF Guides to get through here in the first week of publishing The Four Hundred here in 2018.

Let’s take them in chronological order so we don’t lose our minds.

In Volume 19, Number 50 of the IBM i PTF Guide, there was not much happening that week because the holiday season was in even fuller effect. I found the following …
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Power Systems And The Spectre And Meltdown Threats

Three IBM i Trends To Watch This Year

1. Focus on Security

Syncsort Strikes Again, Buys Trader’s For HA

Four Hundred Monitor, January 10

IBM i PTF Guide, The Last Four Weeks

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