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IBM Hikes Memory Prices On Power8 And Power9 Iron

June 11, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan

It is a problem that all server makers are facing: Raw DRAM and flash memory prices have been rising for the past year and a half, yet they are loath to raise their own prices because such rude spikes will actually curtail demand for servers given the sizes of the slices of the server cost pie that main memory and now flash memory comprise. When memory prices started rising at the end of 2016, most people thought it would not last for more than a few quarters, but the DRAM and flash makers are happy to make more dough doing …
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Profound Logic Shows Off Innovation At PowerUp

June 11, 2018 Alex Woodie

The recent COMMON PowerUp 18 conference was a tour de force for Profound Logic, which not only showcased major enhancements to its flagship Web and mobile development tool for IBM i, Profound UI, but also swept the IBM Innovation Awards with two customer success stories.

Let’s start with the Innovation Awards. Every year, IBM and COMMON highlight the innovative work that two companies do with their IBM i systems, including first and second place. While IBM i modernization vendors are usually well-represented in the nominations and eventual winners, we’ve never seen clients of the same modernization vendor take both first …
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The IBM i Base Is Ready To Move On Up

January 22, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Even the most eager hyperscaler or cloud builder in the world has to let a server sit in place, running workloads, for at least three years to get good value on the dollar spent, and in many cases, machines are repurposed to be in the fleet for longer than that. And no company can accept the risk of changing all machines at the same time, for obvious reasons other than cost, because such a change could be very disruptive to any business. Enterprises tend to have less spare iron and fewer techies, and so they are even more conservative, and …
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Investment And Integration Indicators For IBM i

January 22, 2018 Dan Burger

Steve Will can talk a blue streak. IBM, sometimes referred to as Big Blue, pays Will to do that. As chief architect of the IBM i operating system, he has a lot of other responsibilities, too. One of them is to listen. He travels around the world talking with and listening to IBM i customers.

Last week, Will stopped by Southern California to attend the OCEAN user group meeting in Orange County. In his keynote session, he talked about IBM i strategy (that’s a bigger part of his job than listening), investments, and commitment to the future of the platform. …
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Guru: Using Curl To Interact With Web Services

January 22, 2018 Jacob Holt

There have been times where I have had to collect or enter data into vendor websites. While usually this was not a hassle, it was an uncommon function of my job. However, it wasn’t long before the standard business process got unbearable. I began looking for ways to automate those tasks by using the command-line program Curl to get and post data to vendor web services.

Curl is an open-source program that supports a plethora of internet protocols for transferring data. With its wide-ranging parameters, this program offers much power for automating tedious tasks. But just like other highly flexible …
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Syncsort Finds Security Key To Business Resilience

January 22, 2018 Alex Woodie

Syncsort is keeping up the tradition started 10 years ago by Vision Solutions, which it now owns, by publishing a State of Resilience report. This year’s report focuses the spotlight heavily on one particular aspect of IT operations that’s on everybody’s minds following a turbulent 2017: security.

After surveying 5,632 IT professionals from January through July of last year, Syncsort found that security was the initiative at the top of most IT pros’ minds. Looking out over the next 24 months, security emerged as the top initiative, accounting for 49% of the votes, followed by high availability.

Specifically, IT professionals …
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IBM’s Systems Group On The Financial Rebound

January 22, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan

We like to start with the good news here in 2018, and the good news is that IBM had a very good quarter in its systems business, so we can all start breathing a little easier and Hitachi can put that checkbook away because Big Blue ain’t going to be selling off its System z and Power Systems business any time soon.

(We are joking there. We think. . . . and hope.)

In the final quarter of 2017 ended in December, the mainframe saw sales shoot up 71 percent thanks to the System z14 refresh that started in …
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IBM Hikes Memory Prices On Power8 And Power9 Iron

Profound Logic Shows Off Innovation At PowerUp

The IBM i Base Is Ready To Move On Up

Investment And Integration Indicators For IBM i

Guru: Using Curl To Interact With Web Services

Syncsort Finds Security Key To Business Resilience

IBM’s Systems Group On The Financial Rebound

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