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Google Has a Public Power Systems Cloud, Too

September 18, 2019 Alex Woodie

We have been telling you about a prospective Power Systems offering on the Google Cloud for the better part of two years. Well, it looks like Google and IBM went ahead and launched the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offering earlier this year, even if the companies neglected to publicly announce it.

As part of its new “IBM Power Systems for Google Cloud” offering, Google has installed IBM Power Systems S922 servers in US-East 4, a Google Cloud data center in Northern Virginia, and is selling access to slices of IBM i, AIX, and Linux operating systems carved up by …
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IBM i 7.2 End Dates Revealed as Power7 Shutdown Looms

September 18, 2019 Alex Woodie

IBM surprised nobody last week when it announced that it will stop selling IBM i 7.2 next April and cease supporting the operating system a year later. The lead time should give IBM i shops plenty of runway to prepare their upgrade strategies and transition to newer versions of the operating system. A potentially more impactful deadline for those not paying close attention is the end of hardware support for Power7 boxes in less than two weeks.

Last week’s announcement of end of sales and support for IBM i 7.2 and related software products was not unexpected. That’s because IBM …
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IBM Patches Privilege Escalation Flaw In Db2 Mirror

September 18, 2019 Alex Woodie

Much of the Western World may take August off, but apparently not hackers and other off-book computer enthusiasts, as IBM addressed several security problems across its IBM i software family last month. The list of security flaws include a privilege escalation flaw in Db2 Mirror and OpenSSL and BIND vulnerabilities in IBM i itself. Power Systems firmware and Sterling data integration products also saw patches.

The lowlight of the month’s security news arguably goes to Db2 Mirror, the new database clustering technology that IBM released in June with the delivery of IBM i 7.4. The software is designed to provide …
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Four Hundred Monitor, September 18

September 18, 2019 Jenny Thomas

This week, Steve Will, Chief Architect of the IBM i, tweeted out the link this week for new followers. It’s interesting to think there are still new followers popping up, but if you’re one of the Twitter holdout, you might want to consider giving it a try. The Twitter-verse gives us direct access to the movers and shakers of our ecosystem (not to mention the writers of IT Jungle), and it’s a great place to see the chatter around our little ecosystem. Of course, if you still don’t think Twitter is for you, you can always count on Four Hundred …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 21, Number 37

September 18, 2019 Doug Bidwell

First up, IBM has a new support site for IBM i customers coming in October. You can see a video describing this at this link. And now back to our regularly scheduled PTF programming. In this week’s edition of the IBM i PTF Guide, we find that there are new HIPERs and new Security groups for all four current releases – that’s IBM i 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, and 7.4.

We don’t have any new links in the Guide this week, and we came up dry on tips, too. (It is like that some days.)

The Guide at a …
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Google Has a Public Power Systems Cloud, Too

IBM i 7.2 End Dates Revealed as Power7 Shutdown Looms

IBM Patches Privilege Escalation Flaw In Db2 Mirror

Four Hundred Monitor, September 18

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 21, Number 37

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