TFH Volume: 29 Issue: 67 Archives

Entry Server Bang For The Buck, IBM i Versus Red Hat Linux

November 11, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan

In last week’s issue, we did a competitive analysis of the entry, single-socket Power S914 machines running IBM i against Dell PowerEdge servers using various Intel Xeon processors as well as an AMD Epyc chip running a Windows Server and SQL Server stack from Microsoft. This week, and particularly in the wake of IBM’s recent acquisition of Red Hat, we are looking at how entry IBM i platforms rate in terms of cost and performance against X86 machines running a Linux stack and an appropriate open source relational database that has enterprise support.

Just as a recap from last week’s …
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On Your IBM i Radar Now: CCPA

November 11, 2019 Alex Woodie

Companies in the United States were understandably hesitant to comply with a European law dictating how they collect and use data about customers, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). But American companies won’t so easily overlook the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA), a GDPR-like law that goes into effect in 2020.

According to HelpSystems‘ 2019 IBM i Marketplace study released earlier this year, 28 percent of IBM i shops adhere to GPDR. That was up significantly from 2018 (the year when GDPR went into effect), when just 12 percent of IBM i shops followed the law. GDPR was the …
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Guru: Better Check Constraints

November 11, 2019 Ted Holt

This article has three purposes. If you use check constraints in your database, the purpose is to help you make better use of check constraints. If you don’t use check constraints, the purpose is to encourage you to use them and to point you in the right direction. If you already know all this stuff, the purpose is to goad you to email me and teach me something I don’t know.

The purpose of check constraints is to keep invalid data out of the database. That may seem unnecessary. Isn’t that what the applications are supposed to do? Yes, but …
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As I See It: Speech On Steroids

November 11, 2019 Victor Rozek

When Guttenberg first started cranking out Bibles, the religious authorities who dominated life and discourse in the 15th century were cautiously optimistic. Not only could it save monks years of lugubrious work copying and illustrating the volume, but they assumed this new technology would be used solely to propagate a Medieval version of approved speech.

But of course that didn’t last long.

Since its Feudal inception, communication technology and free speech have always had a turbulent and tenuous relationship. The easier it became to disseminate information, the more efficient the spread of heretical, seditious, and unpopular ideas. And the more …
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Private Cloud Spending Steady, Public Cloud Declines

November 11, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan

It is interesting to watch the progress of the transition from traditional bare metal machines running discrete workloads on separate systems to cloudy infrastructure that is virtualized and is therefore more malleable and also allows for the utilization to be driven up on systems.

Perhaps the most interesting thing is that the traditional, monolithic architecture is going away over the long term, but in the short term, cloudy infrastructure – at least determined by the amount of money that regular enterprises as well as the hyperscalers, cloud builders, and other service providers spend – rises and falls and is still …
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Entry Server Bang For The Buck, IBM i Versus Red Hat Linux

On Your IBM i Radar Now: CCPA

Guru: Better Check Constraints

As I See It: Speech On Steroids

Private Cloud Spending Steady, Public Cloud Declines

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