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How Committed Is Big Blue To The IBM Cloud?

May 23, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Before you get all nervous, I did not ask how committed is Big Blue to the Power Virtual Server. So don’t jump to the wrong conclusion. But we are beginning to wonder just how committed IBM is to the idea of operating a globe-spanning X86 server cloud that competes with the likes of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, and Baidu Cloud.

What got us to thinking about this was an announcement by IBM that it has signed a “strategic collaborative agreement” with AWS, which is just facing the facts that AWS is the …
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Immutable Copies Are Only As Good As Your Validation

May 23, 2022 Stan Wilkins

A system can always be replaced, but the files and objects that comprise the application and the data that makes it useful can fall victim to all sorts of decay, neglect, or abuse in a modern system. And that is why we did backups to tape subsystems, or even tape libraries and then virtual tape libraries based on disk drives for so many years. And for those who cannot afford to have downtime or lost data, the IBM i base has been fortunate to have some of the best high availability clustering ever invented.

With ransomware and malware attacks on …
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Guru: IBM i *USRPRF Security

May 23, 2022 Bruce Bading

IBM i has long enjoyed a reputation of being one of the most securable application servers in the industry. IBM i object encapsulation or object-oriented architecture achieves a level of technology integrity not found in file-based systems such as Unix, Linux, and Windows – as long as QSECUTY is set to 40 or 50.

This advanced technology however does not exclude the IBM i from security risks if your development teams are not practicing (DevSecOps | CSRC (nist.gov)) and (Zero Trust Architecture | NIST).

Let me remind what one of the lead signatories on the Agile …
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ERP Transitions Loom for SAP on IBM i Customers

May 23, 2022 Alex Woodie

Unless SAP changes its plans, the company will end mainstream support for its business software running on IBM i in five years, with an option for extended maintenance through 2030. The looming end of support for the decades-long partnership between the IBM i organization and the German software giant puts about 1,500 joint customers in the tough spot of deciding how to transition away from their current ERP platform. And one they have probably invested a lot of time, money, and effort into.

SAP’s preferred destination for all of its ECC (ERP Central Component) and Business Suite customers – …
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Inflation Pumps Up Global IT Spending, Supply Chain Deflates It

May 23, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

This is not a newsflash, but it is a bit crazy out there on Earth right now. Predicting what spending will be in any industry and for any durable good or service is extremely difficult. But, prediction is what humans do, and the prognosticators at Gartner have done their best to try to figure out where IT spending is going to go in the next two years.

As far as they can tell, global IT spending actually rose by a remarkable 9.5 percent to $4.26 trillion in 2021, with spending being particularly brisk for software and devices (which includes PCs, …
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How Committed Is Big Blue To The IBM Cloud?

Immutable Copies Are Only As Good As Your Validation

Guru: IBM i *USRPRF Security

ERP Transitions Loom for SAP on IBM i Customers

Inflation Pumps Up Global IT Spending, Supply Chain Deflates It

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