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Talking Digital Transformation With The New And Prior CEO

September 9, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Here is a situation that each and every IT manager and chief information officer has experienced and will continue to experience: Having a very long conversation with the president or chief executive officer of their company about how to engage in or continue with digital transformation and the application and database modernization that this entails. And sometimes, that conversation will happen as a new person takes the helm of the company.

That’s precisely what we did this week, but with a twist or two. We are not an IT manager or CIO, but rather an observer in the boardrooms of …
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Software Change Management Has To Change With The DevOps Times

September 9, 2019 Philippe Magne

It is easier to change a system or a software development stack than it is to change the habits and preferences of people. People are the biggest friction in adopting new technologies – right up until the moment they are not. And then they are easy. So it is with any technology, and the transition from traditional software change management to open source DevOps tools is no different.

It is ironic, perhaps, that the change comes last to the tools that track the changes. But the move to DevOps is as inevitable as it is desirable, flexible, and valuable.

Over …
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Guru: I’m A Number, You’re A Number, Everybody’s A Number

September 9, 2019 Ted Holt

Do you, like Bob Seger, sometimes feel that you are nothing more than a number? Me too. That’s because to many people, that’s exactly what we are. And if there’s one thing that computers are good at, it’s assigning numbers — to orders, to accounts, to invoices, to transactions, and of course, to people. Since we have to make the computer assign numbers, we may as well learn the modern way to do it.

In my earliest days of programming, I would store the last assigned of a series of numbers in a data file. (The S/34 and S/36 …
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IBM And Inspur Power Systems Buck The Server Decline Trends

September 9, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan

For the first time in 11 quarters – in other words, since the final quarter of 2016 – the server market contracted. And not just because the hyperscalers and cloud builders were cutting back on spending as they consumed the vast amount of compute capacity that they bought in 2018. Enterprises pulled back on spending, too, and every geographic region and every category of server had declines as well, many of these due to their own independent cycles and some due to macroeconomic effects.

As we reported back in July, the Power Systems business grew 3 percent at constant …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 21, Number 35

September 9, 2019 Doug Bidwell

Good people of IBM i Land, in this latest edition of the IBM i PTF Guide you will see that there are new HIPERs and Security groups for all four of the operating system releases. If you are on V7R1, please read the HIPER cover letter – there are over 100 fixes that are not on the cume and lots of dependencies. Please read and heed! And note that the PTFs for vulnerabilities below are not in this new Security group!

There is a new DB2 for IBM i group for version 7.2, and a new version of MGTools …
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Talking Digital Transformation With The New And Prior CEO

Software Change Management Has To Change With The DevOps Times

Guru: I’m A Number, You’re A Number, Everybody’s A Number

IBM And Inspur Power Systems Buck The Server Decline Trends

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 21, Number 35

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