TFH Volume: 32 Issue: 18 Archives

In The IBM i Trenches With: LaserVault

March 21, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

When somebody says they have been doing the same job for three or four decades, that is a big deal in the 21^st century because that kind of long-term employment is just not something anyone counts on. In the OS/400 and IBM i market, such constancy and longevity is, well, normal. Unremarkable. Expected. Good.

So it is with Brad Jensen, the founder and chief executive officer of Electronic Storage Corporation, a company that is perhaps best known for its LaserVault virtual tape library software, but since the company was founded in 1989 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, it …
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It Is Time To Take The 2022 State Of IBM i Survey

March 21, 2022 Miranda VanHorn

The market for IBM i platform – previously known as the AS/400, the iSeries, and the System i – has seen some remarkable changes over the last decade. New capabilities, including graphical user interfaces and support of open-source languages, have ensured that the platform is more than capable of supporting the needs of today’s businesses.

The annual Profound Logic State of IBM i Modernization Survey looks at trends and attitudes that shape the IBM i modernization market. The data collected gives the entire community a better understanding of the current state of IBM i and the priorities of businesses with …
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Guru: IBM i Experience Sharing, Case 2 – Dealing With CPU Queuing Wait Time

March 21, 2022 Satid Singkorapoom

When we drive our cars, we hope to avoid red lights and traffic jams, because we all hate waiting immobile in traffic. I’m sure that you are aware, fully or subtly, that active jobs in any computer system can encounter wait as well. The IBM i developer team has categorized many types of wait.

In this article, let’s look at CPU Queuing wait time. Let’s see how we can interpret and address it in a sensible way to resolve poor performance. I’ll try to provide you with a useful approach to wait time analysis using a gloriously useful performance reporting …
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How Fresche Fills Security Gap with Trinity Guard

March 21, 2022 Alex Woodie

We live in a world full of security threats. Black hat hackers – some working for themselves and some working for the governments of China and Russia – are constantly probing the Internet, looking for weak links in the information supply chain. With its acquisition of Trinity Guard, Fresche Solutions is determined to prevent your IBM i server from being one of them.

It can be hard to fathom the impact that cybersecurity attacks have on the world, and the enormous pains that some organizations are taking to thwart them. In 2021, ransomware grabbed our attention thanks to large attacks …
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If It Can Move To Cloud, It Will; If It Can’t, It Won’t

March 21, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Cloud is a distribution model more than it is a technology transition in the datacenter, and even before Amazon Web Services launched in March 2006, a lot of us were contemplating returning to the time-sharing, utility model of compute. It was a natural thing after enterprise IT shops dealt with decades of best-of-breed computing and systems integration as well as a wave of outsourcing. If you could pay IBM to run your IT shop as it is, why not just pay someone to create a better one and put it on their books?

This cloud thing – which has the …
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In The IBM i Trenches With: LaserVault

It Is Time To Take The 2022 State Of IBM i Survey

Guru: IBM i Experience Sharing, Case 2 – Dealing With CPU Queuing Wait Time

How Fresche Fills Security Gap with Trinity Guard

If It Can Move To Cloud, It Will; If It Can’t, It Won’t

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