TFH Volume: 32 Issue: 5 Archives

Building A More Perfect IBM i Cloud On Power10 Iron

January 24, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

As we get closer to the launch of the entry and midrange Power10 machines, we can’t help but think about the innovative uses that these machines might be put to. We think, for instance, that these machines could be the foundation of a new generation – and a new kind – of IBM i cloud based on a mix of entry one-socket Power S1021 and two-socket Power S1022, and Power S1024 machines augmented in a very special way with four-socket Power E1050s.

To one way of thinking, the easiest way to build a big cloud capable of supporting thousands of …
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EvolveWare Sees Growing Demand for Application Rehoming

January 24, 2022 Alex Woodie

The COVID-19 pandemic has acted like an accelerant for IT modernization, as companies seek a better technical base upon which to launch new digital initiatives, often from the cloud. At EvolveWare, which specializes in migrating applications, 2021 brought a flood of business migrating applications off legacy systems, including big iron systems from IBM, and 2022 looks to be just as busy.

Miten Marfatia founded EvolveWare back in 2001 to address what he predicted would be a surge in application modernization in the new millennium. Marfatia had put quite a bit of thought into the company’s business model, and figured there …
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IT Spending Growth To Slow In The Coming Years

January 24, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

It has been a weird couple of years for IT organizations due to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. So many normal patterns have been disrupted that it is sometimes hard to imagine that things can go back to, well, normal. But if the analysts at Gartner are correct, then 2022 will be the year that IT departments start thinking about the future again instead of triaging problems caused by the pandemic, and it will also be a time of more conservative IT spending growth.

Last week, Gartner put out its revised IT spending figures for 2021 and also updated …
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As I See It: The Ideal Workplace, Part 2

January 24, 2022 Victor Rozek

New year, new possibilities. And what better place to start than sharing the experiences and aspirations of IT professionals.

Last month, as 2021 was coming to an end, I asked readers for feedback on how they would describe their ideal workplace; the issues that were important to them, the quality of their working environment, and how they wanted to be treated by their company and its management. I offered a list of issues for consideration, and below is a summary of their responses.

The first question was a variation of the classic “paper or plastic” dilemma. Would you prefer to …
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Some Good Advice About Log4j Mitigation Gotchas

January 24, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The Apache Log4j logging utility written in Java and available since the end of the Dot Com Boom in early 2001, has been installed far and wide into many systems and systems software packages in the more than two decades it has been available. And that is why the zero-day security vulnerability discovered by Chinese computing giant Alibaba on November 24 last year and revealed on December 9 has caused so much concern.

Log4j is everywhere and that means the Log4Shell vulnerability that Alibaba described makes it particularly scary. But before we get into some of the mitigation advice that …
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Building A More Perfect IBM i Cloud On Power10 Iron

EvolveWare Sees Growing Demand for Application Rehoming

IT Spending Growth To Slow In The Coming Years

As I See It: The Ideal Workplace, Part 2

Some Good Advice About Log4j Mitigation Gotchas

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