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Watson-Inspired Pattern Matching Drives IBM i Performance Breakthrough

June 9, 2021 Alex Woodie

What do human diseases and IBM i performance problems have in common? For starters, they both can generate quite a bit of data. In the case of the humans, it was enough for IBM to train its AI technology, Watson, to find patterns buried in the data and come up with diagnoses. Now the Danish software company iPerformance is using a variation on that approach with GiAPA, its Global i Application Performance Analyzer.

When iPerformance founder Kaare Plesner saw a demo of IBM Watson developing medical diagnoses, he figured a similar approach could work for sorting through the reams of …
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Certified Pre-Owned Storage: More Than Just A Pretty Price

June 9, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

People tend to think first and foremost about servers when they think of IT infrastructure, but a true system, even if it is a monolithic, standalone server with as few as one or as many as 16 sockets, always includes storage. And in distributed systems that can grow beyond the scale up limits of NUMA machines and scale out to add compute capacity, they always include storage (whether converged on the server nodes or run alongside the cluster on the network) and they also always include networking.

No matter what, storage is a big component of every enterprise system, ranging …
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Security Vendor Shopping Spree Continues for HelpSystems

June 9, 2021 Alex Woodie

HelpSystems quietly nabbed two more security software vendors last month, Agari and Beyond Security, just days after it brought on a new investor, a private equity firm called Harvest Partners Structured Capital.

The deal to bring in Harvest Partners SCF, LP was announced on May 6, when HelpSystems announced that a definitive agreement has been signed for HP SCF to take a minority stake in the company, joining existing investors TA Associates, Charlesbank Capital Partners, HGGC, and HelpSystems employees.

HP SCF principal Chris Peyser, who will take a place on HelpSystems board, lauded the Eden Prairie, Minnesota, company for its …
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Four Hundred Monitor, June 9

June 9, 2021 Jenny Thomas

Remember the days of summer camp? As a kid, summer camp memories might include swimming and hiking, roasting marshmallows, and even feeling a little homesick. Common Europe has reimagined summer camp with the IBM i professional in mind, and you don’t even have to go anywhere to join in on the fun. Common Europe’s Power Summer Camp 2021 Virtual Edition begins running live on the Internet on June 14, and it is free to attend. Topics will include the IBM i, AIX, and Linux operating systems as implemented on Power hardware. You can get more information and find out how …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 22

June 9, 2021 Doug Bidwell

We are playing a little catch up after the Memorial Day holiday here in IBM i PTF Land. It was fairly quiet over the holiday weekend, with a set of PTF updates for the Hardware Management Console. To be specific, take a look at PTFs MH01889 and MH01890, which are an interim fix, or ifix as IBM calls them, for HMC V9 R2 M951 running on virtualized X86 or Power servers, respectively. See this link for more information.

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

PTF Groups 7.4:
- DB2 Web Query for i V2.2.1
- Content
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Watson-Inspired Pattern Matching Drives IBM i Performance Breakthrough

Certified Pre-Owned Storage: More Than Just A Pretty Price

Security Vendor Shopping Spree Continues for HelpSystems

Four Hundred Monitor, June 9

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 22

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