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2019 Predictions: IBM i Trend Spotting

January 23, 2019 Alex Woodie

What will happen in the IBM i community this year? Maybe IBM will launch a public cloud service? Or IBM i shops will find the budget to get busy with application modernization? It’s really anybody’s guess, which is why IT Jungle solicited predictions from prominent names in the community to get their take on what will happen this year.

The wider IT community is moving quickly to adopt next-gen development methodologies, and those will increasingly find their way into the IBM i community in 2019, predicts Dan Magid, vice president of solution sales with Rocket Software.

“2019 will bring …
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Public Cloud Dreaming For IBM i

January 23, 2019 Alex Woodie

Is the IBM i community suffering from a bad case of cloud envy? While we profess to love our servers, it’s difficult to sit by and watch as our Windows and Linux colleagues tap into unlimited storage and compute resources offered by public cloud vendors. Maybe that will all change in 2019, but it’s not looking likely.

Public cloud vendors have invested hundreds of billions of dollars to build massive data centers around to world to house scads of cheap X86 servers and storage resources. Tens of thousands of companies have moved some or all of their computing stacks into …
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SEA Adapts Messaging App For MSPs

January 23, 2019 Alex Woodie

When it comes to managing workloads and applications, managed service providers (MSP) have a unique set of requirements. Due to these requirements, MSPs that run IBM i workloads often end up building their own systems management and monitoring software. With a new release of its message management software, Software Engineering of America (SEA) now has an out-of-the-box solution for MSPs.

Over the past few years, we’ve seen a steady uptick of interest in private cloud environments hosted by MSPs. In the IBM i space, there are now dozens of MSPs operating in the market, including many former IBM business partners …
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Four Hundred Monitor, January 23

January 23, 2019 Jenny Thomas

While most of us are still transitioning into the New Year, according to Ginni Rometty, IBM’s CEO, Big Blue is already a company of the future. After heavily investing in the future in the recent past, Rometty says it is now time for consistent performance. You can watch her entire discussion about what’s to come for IBM and tech in general in 2019 at the first link below. Here in the Jungle, the New Year brought new life to some old tech tips in the most recent of Four Hundred Guru Classic. Find the link to the latest issue …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 21, Number 3

January 23, 2019 Doug Bidwell

You might be feeling like this is your lucky day, what with getting two PTF guides in one week and all. But there isn’t much new going on in the latest PTF Guide following Monday’s edition. There are no new links to share, but we do have a tip you might find helpful:

Did you know you could set the defaults on the SAVE menu Opt 21 by using Opt 20 on the same menu? This will save you a lot of writing!

There are no new defectives this week, but here is the usual rundown of the last defective …
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2019 Predictions: IBM i Trend Spotting

Public Cloud Dreaming For IBM i

SEA Adapts Messaging App For MSPs

Four Hundred Monitor, January 23

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 21, Number 3

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