TFH Volume: 31 Issue: 12 Archives

Big Blue Rolls Out Red Hat Power Stack

February 15, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

A few weeks ago, we told you about some of the announcements that Big Blue was packaging up for Power Systems hardware and separately for the combination of its Red Hat systems software stack and Power Systems iron for on premises datacenters. These announcements are slated to go out on February 23, as far as we know, but the IBM Announcement Letter system often has other ideas and sometimes even violates the company’s own embargoes, as if it has a mind of its own.

(For all we know, something that old and so full of data does have a mind …
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A Conversation With Carol Woodbury on IBM i Security

February 15, 2021 Dawn Winston

Carol Woodbury has been a one of the most active and respected voices on IBM i security for decades. She is also an award-winning and internationally recognized speaker and writer on IBM i security. She has authored several books addressing IBM i security and is the only author with commercially available books dedicated to the topic.

Currently, Carol Woodbury is the president, chief technology officer and co-founder of DXR Security. Precisely’s product marketing director, Dawn Winston, had a virtual Q&A session where she had a chance to discuss Woodbury’s insights on the current state of IBM i security.

Dawn Winston: …
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Guru: When An Outer Join Is An Inner Join

February 15, 2021 Ted Holt

When is a boy not a boy? When he’s abed! When is a door not a door? When it’s ajar! When is an outer join not an outer join? (Sorry, no dad joke here. Three dad jokes in one paragraph would have been too many, don’t you agree?) Let me answer that last question.

In my work I often see outer joins that are not really outer joins, but inner joins. Oh, based on what I’ve heard from IBM, the query engine may treat them as outer joins, but the result set is the same as that produced by an …
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Weighing The Hidden Costs Of Open Source

February 15, 2021 Alex Woodie

One of the perceived benefits of using open source software is cost. It’s often free to obtain, and users can get technical support au gratis through community supported websites. But what is often missing from that equation are hidden costs associated with running that software in production environments. An IDC report commissioned from IBM seeks to put a number to those costs.

In production environments, where the risk of a business interruption due to IT issues is high, companies must make the conscious decision to dedicate some of its staff’s time to supporting a given piece of open source software, …
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What Does This Year Look Like For IT Spending?

February 15, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Those who run businesses always keep two sets of data in their heads. One set is how their own business is doing relative to itself over past months, quarters, and years. And the other is how the economy at large is doing. Figuring out the correlation between the two, and what to do as these two data sets converge – or don’t – is essentially the task of upper management. It’s an art, not a science.

Around this time every year, we like to take a survey of what the big IT consultancies say in regard to IT spending to …
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Big Blue Rolls Out Red Hat Power Stack

A Conversation With Carol Woodbury on IBM i Security

Guru: When An Outer Join Is An Inner Join

Weighing The Hidden Costs Of Open Source

What Does This Year Look Like For IT Spending?

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