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Balancing Supply And Demand For Impending Big Power10 Iron

August 9, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

It is always an exciting time when Big Blue is rolling out a new processor generation – well, with the exception of the Power6+, which IBM did not really talk about at all and tried to pass off as a Power6 until I figured that out. And I have to admit, IBM used the Power6+ architectural tweak and a refinement of the 65 nanometer chip manufacturing process (as opposed to an expected 45 nanometer process shrink) to still cram two whole processors into a dual chip module to radically expanding the throughput performance per socket, and it was impressive …
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Thoroughly Modern: Making Quick Wins Part Of Your Modernization Strategy

August 9, 2021 Chris Koppe

IT leaders are being asked to do way more than keep the lights on these days. For many, the recent pandemic has exposed the need for organizations to provide effective digital experiences and enable remote work. At the same time, many industries experienced revenue loss and as a result, have fewer resources.

Understanding where to focus efforts can be key in helping you drive the best value and stay aligned with company goals. Success often lies in striking a delicate balance between addressing modernization needs and working within reduced budgets.

The path to modernizing IBM i applications is paved with …
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Guru: The Deception of Fractional Labeled Durations

August 9, 2021 Ted Holt

Hey, Ted:

We measure certain processes in tenths of an hour. For whatever reason, we cannot make date/time arithmetic work properly when dealing with this data. There must be something that we don’t understand — what we’re doing seems simple and straightforward. Can you help?

— One Confused Reader

What this reader wants to do makes perfect sense. He wants to take a value like 8:00 AM, add a fractional number of hours to it, let’s say 1.1, and come up with 9:06 AM. Let’s try an example.
```
declare global temporary table StampData
 ( Stamp   timestamp );
    
insert into session.StampData 
```
…
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Security Alert: The Anti-Alfred E. Newman Effect

August 9, 2021 Alex Woodie

For years, business leaders resembled Alfred E. Newman when it came to security. If “What, me worry?” wasn’t their motto, then it was something awful close. But amid a slew of high-profile cyberattacks on the nation’s infrastructure, corporate and government officials are – finally – starting to get the message.

“The Summer of Ransomware” began in May 2021, when hackers shut down the largest gasoline pipeline on the East Coast. That attack was followed by several other high profile attacks that shut down schools, meat processing plants, and healthcare networks in the U.S. and Western Europe. There has also …
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Sundry IBM Announcements Of Relevance To Power Shops

August 9, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

This is a particularly calm part of the Power Systems product cycle, and an unusually calm time in the IT market in general. So there ain’t a lot going on out there. But there are a few items from Big Blue that we wanted to make you aware of.

In announcement letter 621-011, IBM is rolling out a variant of software-defined networking, called IBM Cloud Networking appropriately enough, that can be used to interconnect instances of its X86, Power, and z machinery on the IBM Cloud public cloud to each other and to other cloud services through a series …
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Balancing Supply And Demand For Impending Big Power10 Iron

Thoroughly Modern: Making Quick Wins Part Of Your Modernization Strategy

Guru: The Deception of Fractional Labeled Durations

Security Alert: The Anti-Alfred E. Newman Effect

Sundry IBM Announcements Of Relevance To Power Shops

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