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The Pivotal Year Ahead For Big Blue And IBM i Shops

January 10, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

When we look back on it many years from now, this year, 2022, will be a pivotal year in the history of the Power Systems platform from Big Blue, which was commercially significant starting in February 1990 when the RS/6000 was launched but which obviously traces its roots through the IBM i and OS/400 branches of the Power Systems family tree all the way back to the System/3 launched in July 1969 just 10 days after humans first landed on the moon.

There are different kinds of pivot points in the history of the IBM midrange platforms, including the launch …
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IBM i Community Predictions For 2022, Part 1

January 10, 2022 Alex Woodie

While the month and year ostensibly are just values in the date field, when the calendar flips over from December to January, things feel different. There’s a greater sense of hope and optimism for what the new year will bring. Coming off another calamitous year filled with COVID-19, perhaps it’s we need that even more so this year.

It has become an IT Jungle tradition to ask members of the IBM i community at the start of the year for their predictions. This year is no different, and so we’ll kick off the first part of our (most likely) two-part …
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The Great Resignation Intersects Application Modernization And Digital Transformation

January 10, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Depending on how you want to look at it, today is March 680, 2020, or January 10, 2022. It is too early to tell if it is actually a new year or just the penultimate one stretched out unnaturally by biological circumstance. We remain hopeful that 2022 will represent something of a return to normal, but we also know that we can never return to the way things were in 2019. Too many people have had too much time to think about their careers, and a very large number of people are considering job changes or have already jumped ship …
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IBM And Samsung Go Vertical To Push Transistor Density On Chips

January 10, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Big Blue might have sold off its IBM Microelectronics chip fabrication operation to GlobalFoundries many years ago, but that does not mean that the company does not still do a reasonably large amount of fundamental research into chip maker techniques and tricks. Transistor, chip, and packaging research and development is a big portion of the patent portfolio at IBM and continues to be so because Big Blue still has some of the smartest chipheads on the planet working for it because IBM wants to ensure there is a roadmap for future Power and System z processors and because it can …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 1

January 10, 2022 Doug Bidwell

While we were away on holiday, the Log4J and Log4Shell vulnerabilities hit the enterprise systems of the world, including the IBM i platform. So right off the bat here with the first edition of The IBM i PTF Guide in 2022, we want to point you to Big Blue’s Log4j/Log4Shell on IBM i update, which will help you figure out if you are vulnerable. See more at this link.

Here are the Security Bulletins for this:

Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Apache Log4j (CVE-2021-44228) affects Power HMC V9

Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Apache Log4j (CVE-2021-44228) affects Power HMC V8

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The Pivotal Year Ahead For Big Blue And IBM i Shops

IBM i Community Predictions For 2022, Part 1

The Great Resignation Intersects Application Modernization And Digital Transformation

IBM And Samsung Go Vertical To Push Transistor Density On Chips

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 1

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