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IBM Readies Power Systems Announcements For February 23

February 1, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The word on the street is that IBM is getting ready to do a slew of announcements relating to its Power Systems platform at the end of this month, specifically on February 23. Generally speaking, the announcements are going to focus on IT infrastructure modernization, cloud computing, and application modernization, which are obviously things that a lot of the IBM i base in particular has to consider here in 2021.

As best as we can figure, IBM is going to tell business partners in the Power Systems channel a bit about what is happening on February 9, two weeks before …
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COVID-19: A Great Time for Application Modernization

February 1, 2021 Alex Woodie

If your IT department has been waiting for the right time to start your digital transformation, then you’re in luck: With hundreds of millions of folks around the world stuck in their homes and largely limited to interacting via the Internet, the COVID-19 pandemic and economic lockdown represents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build new digital channels to reach them.

COVID-19 is taking a brutal toll on our country in terms of lost lives and lost livelihoods. There’s no upside to that, no way to spin that into a positive. But for IBM i shops that, for whatever reason, have resisted …
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Guru: A Philosophically Engineered Approach to the Processing of Parameters, Take Two

February 1, 2021 Ted Holt

A strange thing happened to me recently. I was writing a new program and like a good programmer, was not reinventing the wheel. I was calling a utility program that calculated the values I needed. However, this utility program, which had always worked correctly, was giving me invalid data. How is it possible that a program can work properly for a long time and suddenly go bad?

The answer to this question was ably answered by Rick Cook, who wrote “Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying …
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Sometimes Folks Only Learn The Hard Way About Keeping Software Current

February 1, 2021 Rob McNelly

School’s been out for me for a very long time, but I still enjoy learning. I gain a sense of satisfaction whenever I learn something new. Specific to technology, exposure to new concepts helps me understand how things work together. I cannot count the number of times where I watched over someone’s shoulder, or watched someone on a shared screen, to learn about a new tool or technique, or a different way to set up my desktop or environment.

Watching and listening to people is my preferred way to learn, but other forms of education – reading IBM Redbooks and …
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Talk Is Cheap, Action Is Costly

February 1, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Companies pick the platforms for their mission critical systems so they can run them for decades. And it is a very, very big deal when they decide to change those platforms. And, furthermore, it is a hell of a lot harder to change these platforms than many people think, and that is because most of the value of those platforms is locked up in the applications and databases that run atop the servers, operating systems, and middleware.

It is with this in mind that we always take any survey data that asks IT executives if and when they are going …
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IBM Readies Power Systems Announcements For February 23

COVID-19: A Great Time for Application Modernization

Guru: A Philosophically Engineered Approach to the Processing of Parameters, Take Two

Sometimes Folks Only Learn The Hard Way About Keeping Software Current

Talk Is Cheap, Action Is Costly

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