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Connectria Bringing IBM i Workloads Closer to AWS

November 11, 2020 Alex Woodie

Organizations that want greater integration between their IBM i and cloud systems may be interested in a new offering unveiled yesterday by Connectria. In January, the private cloud company is planning to launch a new hybrid cloud offering that delivers a low latency connection between its hosted IBM i environments and AWS data centers located on the East and West coasts.

Connectria says its new hybrid cloud offering provides an “ultra-low latency direct connection” between its IBM i and AIX resources and Amazon Web Services’ US-East-1 and US-West-1 regions. With just 2 milliseconds of latency between Connectria’s Power Systems …
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LaserVault Gears Up for ProtecTIER Migrations

November 11, 2020 Alex Woodie

ProtecTIER customers that are on the hunt for a new VTL system following IBM’s decision to end support for the product have a number of options available to them. For IBM i shops that are concerned about the speed of their backups, they may want to check out the ViTL offering from LaserVault, a longtime IBM i solution provider.

Speed is one of the big benefits that ViTL brings to the IBM i backup arena, says Rick Wilson, the vice president of sales and solutions for LaserVault, which is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

“We’re not restricted by the size …
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Remain Software Delivers Trio of Updates

November 11, 2020 Alex Woodie

Remain Software last week announced the delivery of new releases of three separate products, including TD/OMS, its lifecycle management tools for IBM i; Gravity, its workflow management system for multiple systems; API Studio, which helps IBM i shops develop and manage API connections to existing software.

TD/OMS, which is Remain Software’s flagship offering, is an application lifecycle management (ALM) tool for IBM i developers. The core of the offering is the Object Management System (OMS), which guides users through the process of defining applications and their associated objects, while additional modules provide more targeted functionality for reporting, impact analysis, …
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Four Hundred Monitor, November 11

November 11, 2020 Jenny Thomas

The world is kind of a mess right now, which might be why companies are looking forward to getting out of this year and want to hit the ground running in 2021. For instance, look at Big Blue. In our Top Stories this week, we see IBM’s new CEO Arvind Krishna is wasting no time with his plans to transform IBM into a hybrid cloud management vendor, as his predecessor Ginni Rometty speculates we are only a quarter of the way into journey to the hybrid cloud. It just goes to show that no matter what phase of quarantine your …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 45

November 11, 2020 Doug Bidwell

There is not a lot of action on the PTF front this week, but we once again want to remind you that the new Technology Refreshes for IBM i 7.3 and IBM i 7.4 are going to be available on Friday the 13th, and so will the Tech Refresh resaves related to them. Also, there is a new version of Access Client Solutions that is due in the first week of December.

Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level:

PTF Groups 7.4:
- HIPERs
- Temporary Storage
PTF Groups 7.3:
- HIPERs
PTF Groups 7.2:
- HIPERs
PTF Groups …
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Connectria Bringing IBM i Workloads Closer to AWS

LaserVault Gears Up for ProtecTIER Migrations

Remain Software Delivers Trio of Updates

Four Hundred Monitor, November 11

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 45

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