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Beware The Hype Of Modern Tech

April 25, 2022 Alex Woodie

Many IBM i shops are under the gun to modernize their applications as part of a digital transformation initiative. If the app is more than 10 or 15 years old and doesn’t use the latest technology and techniques, it’s considered a legacy system that must be torn down and rebuilt according to current code. But there are substantial risks associated with these efforts – not the least of which that the modern method is essentially incompatible with the IBM i architecture as it currently exists. IBM i shops should be careful when evaluating these new directions.

Amy Anderson, a modernization …
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Why Modernize Your Legacy Monitoring?

April 25, 2022 Ash Giddings

Modernization is everywhere at present, with teams actively looking to bring their business into the 21^st century by transforming applications, framework, underlying platform bases, and supporting software.

The underlying aim of any modernization strategy will vary from business to business, although popular drivers include the need to become more agile in an effort to adapt quicker to the needs of the business, to improve efficiency, and to simplify operations. This exercise provides the opportunity to also free up resources and to address the impact of dwindling expertise, evident in many areas of the market.

Certain to be included in …
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Guru: IBM i Unauthenticated Access

April 25, 2022 Bruce Bading

One of the greatest threats to any network, host, or server is unauthenticated access where an attacker can gain local or remote access with no credentials that can lead to a Critical rating with the following descriptions (CVSS v3.1 User Guide (first.org).

Confidentiality Impact Complete (There is total information disclosure, resulting in all system files being revealed.)

Integrity Impact Complete (There is a total compromise of system integrity, and a complete loss of system protection resulting in the entire system being compromised.)

Availability Impact Complete (There is a total shutdown of the affected resource. The attacker can render …
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The Power Systems And System z Mainframe Cycles Start Anew

April 25, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

If you listen to Big Blue a lot, like we do at The Four Hundred, you know IBM spends a lot of its time yammering about hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence, and how it has domain expertise to help develop applications for very precise problems in very specific businesses and markets. And sometimes in its quarterly financial reports, it can go through the whole hour and not mention Power Systems at all.

But thanks to the beginning of the Power10 product cycle last September with the high-end “Denali” Power E1080 server and the launch of the “Telum” z16 mainframe …
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There Were Actually More Power Systems Price Hikes Than We Thought

April 25, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Last week, we told you about two price hikes on Power Systems hardware, software, and services that were announced on April 13 and take effect for hardware and software on May 7 and for selected Software Maintenances services on July 1.

One of the price changes came in our announcement letter roundup and the other came through the business partner network, and on a hunch on Sunday night with another story still needing to be written, I logged into the IBM announcement letter system to see if anything had happened while I was away last week sitting in the sun …
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Beware The Hype Of Modern Tech

Why Modernize Your Legacy Monitoring?

Guru: IBM i Unauthenticated Access

The Power Systems And System z Mainframe Cycles Start Anew

There Were Actually More Power Systems Price Hikes Than We Thought

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