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IBM i Finds A Youthful Swagger Down In Texas

May 23, 2018 Alex Woodie

The IBM i platform and ecosystem may not be what they once were. Thirty years of relentless OLTP processing will do that to you. But if COMMON’s POWERUp 18 conference this week in San Antonio is any indication, the box itself and the ecosystem it supports are far from dead.

Signs of life in IBM i-land were evident everywhere at the Marriott Rivercenter, the hotel where about 1,000 IBM i professionals, vendors, and IBMers spent the past four days holed up for COMMON‘s annual conference, which was renamed POWERUp.

Here are some of the highlights of the show, which …
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Syncsort Talks Rebranding, IBM i Product Strategy

May 23, 2018 Alex Woodie

Think you know Syncsort? Who the company is and what it does? Well, you might want to take a fresh peek, because the company that acquired Vision Solutions and a handful of other IBM i software firms is on the move. In fact, it used the COMMON POWERUp 18 conference in San Antonio this week to begin rolling out a long-awaited company rebranding and major product refresh – including its new Fusion unification strategy and several new IBM i products.

First of all, the company will continue to be known as Syncsort. The executives leading the Pearl River, New …
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Massiello Named First Lifetime Champion for Power

May 23, 2018 Alex Woodie

Pete Massiello has been a mainstay of the IBM i community for decades. He’s the president of iTech Solutions, a former president at COMMON, a respected technical authority on the platform, an in-demand speaker, and part of the inaugural group of IBM Champions for Power Systems in 2011. Now he can add one more title to his resume: Lifetime Champion for Power Systems.

IBM this month announced that Massiello is the first Lifetime Champion for Power, an event for which he was not prepared. “It was a surprise to me,” he said, before quickly adding “It’s a huge honor, an …
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Four Hundred Monitor, May 23

May 23, 2018 Dan Burger

COMMON stole the spotlight this week with its POWERUp 18 event in Austin, Texas. IT Jungle’s own Alex Woodie was our boots on the ground at the show, giving us the inside scoop from the opening session and what appears to be a bright future for IBM i and the Power business. And we would be remiss if we didn’t mention the continued celebrations of the 30th anniversary of our beloved platform. If you haven’t been reading The Four Hundred this week, you have been missing out. After you catch up here, take a look below at what’s happening …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 20, Number 20

May 23, 2018 Doug Bidwell

Hello good people of IBM i Land. We are back in the Wednesday edition of The Four Hundred, our usual home, but during the summer the IBM i PTF Guide may end up at the tail end of the Monday edition of the newsletter depending on the vacation schedule for the Wednesday edition. The news tends to be light in the summer, as you all know, so we often consolidate to one publication a week.

In any event, there is not much going on with IBM i and related systems software in terms of patches. This stands to reason …
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IBM i Finds A Youthful Swagger Down In Texas

Syncsort Talks Rebranding, IBM i Product Strategy

Massiello Named First Lifetime Champion for Power

Four Hundred Monitor, May 23

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 20, Number 20

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