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IBM’s Competitive Analysis For The Power10 Midrange Machine

August 29, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

For as long as there has been a Power architecture, way back in 1995 with the advent of the custom “Cobra Muskie” PowerPC AS chips, the rule of thumb for performance is that the Power core did twice the work of an Intel core designed for server workloads. This was true in 1993, when Intel jumped in the server racket with gusto, and it is true 31 years later as the entry and midrange Power10 machines in the same performance class as the top-end X86 iron from Intel and AMD are starting to ramp.

This performance gap on cores is …
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Moving To The Cloud Should Be Easier Than Switching Homes

August 29, 2022 Rich Spring

If the modern economy has taught us anything, it is that ownership is sometimes overrated. There are many things that we are accustomed to buying that we might better rent at a slight premium.

The cloud IT infrastructure is one of those things. This new deployment and purchasing model is a boon for the workloads we rely on. Done right, a move to the cloud should be relatively painless, if possibly a little time consuming.

But for a lot of IBM i customers, the idea of moving to infrastructure outside of local control is scary, not because of their fear …
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Kisco Makes Moves In the IBM i Security Business

August 29, 2022 Alex Woodie

When he took ownership of Kisco Systems from his dad, Richard, last year, Justin Loeber pivoted the company to focus almost exclusively on IBM i security. With recent updates to the company’s security tools in the books and more in the works, Loeber is positioning the company to ride the security wave for the long haul.

If COMMON’s recent announcement that it is launching a new security conference called i on Security 2022 in St. Louis this fall is any indication, then it appears that awareness of security vulnerabilities is on the upswing. That is good news for companies …
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Two Weeks Of Webinars On IBM i Security

August 29, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Security through obscurity was never a good OS/400 and IBM i security strategy, even though it was a commonly held belief by many in the base. Over the decades, the interconnected of systems has become more pronounced and security threats in the IT world have ramped up and – there are related, but not exclusively causal, relationships between these two phenomena. Suffice it to say, the need to be more proactive about system and application security has never been greater.

Well, unless you count next year. And the year after that. And the year after that. . . . …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 35

August 29, 2022 Doug Bidwell

Hello good people of IBM i Land. To start off, a reminder that the Memo To Users for supported releases were last updated April 2022. Clients should review the full “What’s New” details to understand recent changes and impact these may have. See the Links tab in the guide to access the Memo for your release, and, check periodically. these should be considered living documents, meaning, they evolve over time, and as such, read frequently!

Also, ADMIN2 is back at 7.5! IBM turned it off at earlier releases to mitigate the log4j vulnerability in those releases. At V7R5 GA, the …
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IBM’s Competitive Analysis For The Power10 Midrange Machine

Moving To The Cloud Should Be Easier Than Switching Homes

Kisco Makes Moves In the IBM i Security Business

Two Weeks Of Webinars On IBM i Security

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 35

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