TFH Volume: 32 Issue: 11 Archives

The State Of The IBM i Base 2022, Part One: The Operating System

February 14, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

You probably already figured this out, but we love data here at The Four Hundred, and we are always particularly keen on any data that helps us to understand the IBM i ecosystem better. And that is why we always look forward to the annual IBM i Marketplace Survey report that comes out in January each year from HelpSystems, and because we are thankful for the data they gather, we help push the survey every year and also participate in the webinar for it as well as a donation to the IBM i community.

IT Jungle co-editor Alex Woodie …
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Thoroughly Modern: Taking Charge of Your Hardware Refresh in 2022

February 14, 2022 Peder Lundblad

IBM i shops are well known for paying a premium for their systems because they are worth it, but they are also just as well known for hanging onto aging hardware a bit past its prime, which has its own kinds of economic costs in higher maintenance and operational costs as well as the risk of a failure in some key component of the hardware or of having an older operating system release that does not have a key security vulnerability or bug patched.

IBM does a very good job of keeping hardware technology cycles regular, and so there is …
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Guru: Backup to an NAS using RSYNC

February 14, 2022 Dan Devoe

Like many small shops, we use a simple tape drive to backup most of our libraries and the contents of the IFS. Each workday, the tape would be changed and the previous tape taken home by someone in IT in case of a disaster.

But then, COVID hit – there was no one in the office to switch tapes and the same tape was being used to perform nightly backups. What if we discovered a problem with the data from two nights ago? Ordinarily, we would restore one or more libraries or files from the appropriate tape.

I set up …
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IBM Revs FlashSystem Line, Adds Cyber Vault

February 14, 2022 Alex Woodie

IBM last week debuted new members of its family of NVM-Express all-flash storage arrays, including the FlashSystem 7300 and FlashSystem 9500 arrays. It also launched a new release of the SAN Volume Controller (SVC) and rolled out the Cyber Vault to thwart ransomware.

The FlashSystem 7300 replaces FlashSystem 7200 in the all-flash hierarchy of IBM systems, delivering a 25 percent performance boost. According to IBM’s hardware announcement, each 2U device will feature two node canisters, each with two 10-core Intel Cascade Lake processors and 128 GB of cache standard (with options ranging up to 1.5 TB). The array has …
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Big Blue At Your Power Systems Service

February 14, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

IBM may have spun off its managed services and system hosting businesses into Kyndryl, but it still has a sizable remaining technical support, systems integration, technology consulting, business transformation, and application operations business that represents close to 40 percent of its revenues. And so it is very keen on selling Power Systems shops all kinds of services.

To that end, IBM made two announcements last week regarding the Power Systems hardware platform.

The first, in announcement letter 222-033, is a new plan to offer Software Maintenance – what IBM i shops and resellers and even IBM itself usually call …
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The State Of The IBM i Base 2022, Part One: The Operating System

Thoroughly Modern: Taking Charge of Your Hardware Refresh in 2022

Guru: Backup to an NAS using RSYNC

IBM Revs FlashSystem Line, Adds Cyber Vault

Big Blue At Your Power Systems Service

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