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How Kyndryl’s IBM i Customer Base Benefits from the Big Blue Split

March 30, 2022 Alex Woodie

Now that IBM is done with the spin-out of its Global Technology Services (GTS) business, the company that resulted from that spin-out, Kyndryl, is free to pursue its own strategy. For Kyndryl’s considerable IBM i installed base, that freedom will result in a much broader array of technological options and services engagements becoming available to them.

With 500 employees dedicated to supporting its IBM i customers, Kyndryl has one of the biggest IBM i services practices in the world, says Nicolas Le Van Dé, Kyndryl’s IBM i global offering manager.

“I think we are the leader in terms of IBM …
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IBM i Modernization – Life After RPG

March 30, 2022 Jose Caso Jacobs

How an IBM i business approaches legacy application modernization doesn’t differ from application modernization on any other platform. Well, there is one slight difference. Many of those IBM i businesses have the added weight of replacing working legacy applications for the simple fact that RPG fell out of mainstream coding decades ago. The code is efficient and perfectly runs mission-critical apps, but there are fewer and fewer programmers around to maintain that code.

Colleges and universities stopped teaching RPG before Y2K was even a concern. Developers that learned RPG in the 1980s and early 1990s were 30 or 40 years …
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Pledging Backup Assurances in an Unsure World

March 30, 2022 Alex Woodie

Companies are facing increasingly threats to their backups these days. Whether it’s ransomware attacks, migrations to the cloud, or random hardware failures, the possibility of corrupted data looms as big as ever. With World Backup Day taking place tomorrow (March 31), it makes sense to check out the state of backups on IBM i.

The first thing to know is that backup plans appear to be changing at many companies, or at least the mechanism they use to execute the backup. From 2020 to 2021, the percentage of IBM i shops using tape to backup and recover data dropped from …
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Four Hundred Monitor, March 30

March 30, 2022 Jenny Thomas

“We don’t just create business value, we create progress.” That’s the plan from IBM’s Chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna as Big Blue looks to shine the spotlight back on itself. You can read what’s in store for the year ahead in our Top Story below. Our favorite IBM i is getting some extra attention this week, too, as you can read about in our top post under the Redbooks, White Papers, Blogs, and Other Resources section below. It’s nice to see things starting to kick into high gear around our ecosystem after the past year-plus of stagnant waters.

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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 13

March 30, 2022 Doug Bidwell

It’s pretty quiet on the PTF western front. Not that there isn’t always some kind of weird stuff going on . . . because, let me assure you, there is. IBM i customers have all kinds of weird things happening, and that ain’t no April Fool’s joke. But, mercifully, this week, as we end the first quarter and Spring is starting meteorologically as well as calendaricly – yes, I just made that word up – there are only a few things going on.

Once again: To help you with the Log4j security vulnerability, we have created a supplemental spreadsheet as …
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How Kyndryl’s IBM i Customer Base Benefits from the Big Blue Split

IBM i Modernization – Life After RPG

Pledging Backup Assurances in an Unsure World

Four Hundred Monitor, March 30

Top Stories

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 13

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