TFH Volume: 32 Issue: 50 Archives

Modernization Starts with the Business, and the Tech Follows

July 20, 2022 Alex Woodie

The COVID-19 pandemic sent shockwaves through business, changing the way companies operate and resetting customer expectations. Businesses that can’t keep up with these evolving needs face long-term headwinds in terms of competitiveness. Implementing a modernization strategy is paramount for companies in these situations, but where do you start?

While business closures from COVID-19 were bad, they could have been a lot worse. A 2021 study released by the Federal Reserve concluded that 200,000 establishments closed as a result of the pandemic. That was lower than a study from a year earlier that found 400,000 establishments could close. “Actual exit is …
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Service Express Buys iTech Solutions, iInTheCloud

July 20, 2022 Alex Woodie

It was a “double i” acquisition day recently for Service Express, the IBM business partner that completed acquisitions of iTech Solutions and iInTheCloud on July 5. The moves give Service Express a much bigger presence for IBM i cloud services in the US after it completed a similar deal in the UK.

Based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Service Express broke into the IT market decades ago servicing DEC and VaxAlpha accounts. Over the years, the company has grown its presence in the IBM market, providing hardware systems, solution sales, and managed services, in addition to managed services, IT asset disposition, …
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ATS Group Looks For Patterns In The IT Chaos With Galileo Suite

July 20, 2022 Alex Woodie

If you’re having trouble keeping track of a busy IT environment, you’re not alone — many organizations are in the same boat as you. But when you check out many observability tools, you’ll often find they don’t even know how to spell “IBM i.” That is not the case with Galileo Suite, a collection of IT monitoring and observability tools from Advanced Technology Service Group that supports a range of operating systems, including IBM i.

IT Jungle caught sight of Galileo Suite at the recent COMMON POWERUp conference in New Orleans, where the company behind the suite, ATS Group, …
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Four Hundred Monitor, July 20

July 20, 2022 Jenny Thomas

We’re always watching for the health of our ecosystem, and one of the easiest indicators on how thing are going is to watch the bottom line. This week, IBM reported a better-than-expected second fiscal quarter 2022 during its financial analyst conference call, and the analysts seem to agree the reasonable, although no one seems to be celebrating too hard as the worry of possibility of weakening IT spending looms in light of unprecedented inflation. But it’s OK to remain hopeful that the good trends will continue, and there’s more good news to go through, like the first article in Tim …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 29

July 20, 2022 Doug Bidwell

Please note that we will be moving V7R1M0 from weekly update to archive. Anything new we are informed of that impacts IBM i 7.1, we will post here in the What’s NEW! Section at the top of the story. Also, if you have any IBM i 7.1 requests going forward, we will do our best to provide responses for. Thank you for your readership and support!

To begin with, there are Save and Restore Enhancements for IBM i 7.5, which you can find out more about here. RSTUSRPRF USRPRF(*ALL) no longer requires a dedicated system. The progress message displayed …
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Modernization Starts with the Business, and the Tech Follows

Service Express Buys iTech Solutions, iInTheCloud

ATS Group Looks For Patterns In The IT Chaos With Galileo Suite

Four Hundred Monitor, July 20

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 29

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