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Fresche Takes On IBM i Security With Trinity Guard Acquisition

March 14, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

There are things that you worry about that you can’t do anything about, and there are things that you worry about that you actually can do something about – and have a fiduciary responsibility to do. Death and taxes are in the former category, and the security of mission-critical IT platforms are in the latter.

Fresche Solutions, which expanded from its core application and database modernization business with the acquisition of Abacus Solutions last October, has been on the hunt to do more deals to help IBM i customers tackle the hard problems they face and give them new …
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Thoroughly Modern: IBM i Security Is No Longer Set It And Forget It

March 14, 2022 Amal Macdonald

For most IBM i shops, who are busy creating and maintaining the applications that run the business and who are not just chronically understaffed but structurally understaffed, the smartest thing they can do when it comes to security is give up.

You heard that right. They need to put their arms in the air and surrender, absolutely and completely.

No, we don’t mean they need to open all of the ports on their server, turn off the firewall, and let the ransomware and malware in and let the hackers and phishers do whatever they will. What we do mean by …
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Prepping For Supply Chain Crunches with Manhattan Associates

March 14, 2022 Alex Woodie

As the provider of the warehouse management software used by many of the top brands in the country, Manhattan Associates has a better view into the current supply chain crunch than most. That shouldn’t surprise you. But what may surprise you are the actions the company has been taking for years to prepare itself and its customers for shocks not unlike the current one.

“We’ve been really busy the last five or six years cooking up some pretty cool new things,” says Adam Kline, senior director of product management at Manhattan Associates. Kline is the product manager for WMi, …
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IBM Brings OpenShift Cluster Management Native On Power Iron

March 14, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

If you went out to GitHub and grabbed the source code for the Kubernetes cloud controller, you could compile it in C/C++ or set up the runtimes for the Python chunks of it, and you would probably find some Go buried in there and you could the toolchain and get the raw Kubernetes to work on Linux partitions; you might even be able to get it to run natively on AIX, and if you were really clever, you might even be able to get it to run on IBM i.

But you wouldn’t have very much that was useful given …
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Log4j Security Hole Found In OmniFind Text Search Server

March 14, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Who would have thought that a logging utility written in Java and available for more than two decades could cause so much trouble? But that is the nature of the Log4j security vulnerability, which has been installed in all kinds of systems software and which had a Log4Shell vulnerability that was discovered by Chinese computing giant Alibaba on November 24 last year and that was revealed to the world on December 9 as a zero-day vulnerability.

There are several areas of the IBM i software stack that use the Log4j logging utility, which is one of the many Apache open …
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Fresche Takes On IBM i Security With Trinity Guard Acquisition

Thoroughly Modern: IBM i Security Is No Longer Set It And Forget It

Prepping For Supply Chain Crunches with Manhattan Associates

IBM Brings OpenShift Cluster Management Native On Power Iron

Log4j Security Hole Found In OmniFind Text Search Server

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