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Power10 Entry Machines: The Power S1024 And Power L1024

August 8, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

This is fourth part of our in-depth coverage of the entry and midrange Power10 machines that were announced on July 12 and that started shipping a few weeks later. This week, we go over the last of the machines that can run the IBM i operating system, the Power S1024 and its quasi-Linux-only companion, the Power L1024.

We already went through the Power S1014, the Power S1022s, and the Power S1022 and its quasi-Linux-only variant, the Power L1022. And next week, we will take a look at the midrange Power E1050 – which does not support the IBM i operating …
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Thoroughly Modern: Latest IT Trends – Bring Security, Speed, And Consistency To IT With Automation

August 8, 2022 Alan Hamm and Chris Koppe

The irony of many IT departments is that they have spent many decades automating aspects of the business, literally encoding business processes and interactions with customers, partners, and suppliers to make those processes consistent and fast, but many of the processes used in the IT department itself are done manually and rely on the “tribal knowledge” of the system and application experts.

This is not only not necessary in many cases today, thanks to a myriad of automation tools that can be brought to bear on IT operations, but it is also dangerous and extremely risky. The systems that run …
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Big Blue Unveils New Scalable VTL For IBM i

August 8, 2022 Alex Woodie

IBM has unveiled the iDSI620, a new virtual tape library (VTL) for the IBM i server, developed by its business partner, Dynamic Solutions International, that scales incrementally via 1 TB chunks up to 240 TB of storage capacity.

The iDSI620 is designed to keep pace with customers rapidly expanding data environment without requiring new hardware, according to IBM.

“With iDSI620, there is no disruption to your data protection as your capacity or performance needs change,” IBM states in its July 26 software announcement. “You can simply add a storage license to your existing solution.”

As a customer’s data …
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As I See It: Thank God It’s Thursday

August 8, 2022 Victor Rozek

The five-day workweek is generally attributed to Henry Ford, although it actually originated some 18 years earlier. In 1908, a New England cotton mill adopted the practice so Jewish workers would not have to toil on their Sabbath from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. Ford, who ironically was a virulent antisemite, not only embraced the idea but made two notable improvements: His five-day workweek was limited to 40 hours; and, employees did not suffer a decrease in pay.

At the time Ford was paying $5 per day, which doesn’t sound like a princely sum, but his employees were actually able …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 32

August 8, 2022 Doug Bidwell

It has been a very quiet week on the PTF front for IBM i, which is a good thing after several weeks of lots of security vulnerabilities and other tweaks to the system.

Just a reminder that we have moved V7R1M0 from the weekly update to the 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 …
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Power10 Entry Machines: The Power S1024 And Power L1024

Thoroughly Modern: Latest IT Trends – Bring Security, Speed, And Consistency To IT With Automation

Big Blue Unveils New Scalable VTL For IBM i

As I See It: Thank God It’s Thursday

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 32

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