TFH Volume: 32 Issue: 7 Archives

The IBM i Cloud Just Got More Frictionless With Virtual Serial Numbers

January 31, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

If the cloud is to be successful, it has to do more than provide a new deployment and pricing model for IT organizations. It has to also maintain and retain some of the important practices in use by the IT department. One of the big disconnections between on premises IBM equipment and capacity sold in the cloud has been the serial number that identifies a machine, which is a kind of birth certificate and Social Security number for each box that comes off the IBM factory lines.

That serial number is used to identify the machine for technical support purposes …
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Learning To Drive Fast On The DevOps Roadmap

January 31, 2022 Andrew Ireland

Maturity doesn’t come with the passing of time, but with experience, whatever age you may start doing something. So it is with DevOps. In many ways IBM i teams have been ‘ahead of their time’, deploying small code increments to production fast and often. However we are seeing that requirements in integration and hybrid cloud are pushing the boundaries in DevOps transformation, and that to avoid costly, high-risk migration projects in the future it is important to act now and start taking further steps on that IBM i DevOps maturity journey.

Full DevOps maturity depends on sharing development methods and …
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Focal Point Buys UCG Technologies, On The Hunt For More IBM i Deals

January 31, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

There is a wave of acquisitions underway in the managed service provider (MSP) and technical support services businesses of the IBM i market, with companies trying to amass the skillsets to provide a more complete stack of services to IBM midrange shops. The acquisitions are also being fueled by a business model of cross-selling across merged company portfolios and getting the size necessary to expand into new geographies and to find new customers as IBM i shops confront the growing complexity of their infrastructure and looming shortages in skilled IBM i personnel.

That, in a nutshell, is why Focal Point …
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IBM Says Nothing About Power Systems In Q4

January 31, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

In the wake of its spinout of the Kyndryl managed services business, which represented about a third of the company’s revenues and employees, Big Blue has changed the way it organizes its groups and divisions which, generally speaking, more accurately reflects what it sells and the underlying systems business that is International Business Machines.

Which is great. We have been kvetching about this since 2016, the last time IBM reorganized its business and its financials, so hooray. And we did a preview of the new financial reporting segments, and how IBM backcast them into 2020, with our own revenue …
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DSC Bullish On IBM i Cloud Growth

January 31, 2022 Alex Woodie

You may know Data Storage Corporation as the company that provides hosted high availability and disaster recovery services. But the New York company has moved beyond its roots in data storage with its fast-growing cloud hosting business, where it runs hundreds of IBM i environments on behalf of its customers. With the great cloud migration just starting for Power customers, there’s a considerable upside for companies like DSC.

Data Storage Corporation was one of the first IBM business partners to get into the cloud business. It started building its IBM i cloud in earnest in late 2012, and launched it …
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The IBM i Cloud Just Got More Frictionless With Virtual Serial Numbers

Learning To Drive Fast On The DevOps Roadmap

Focal Point Buys UCG Technologies, On The Hunt For More IBM i Deals

IBM Says Nothing About Power Systems In Q4

DSC Bullish On IBM i Cloud Growth

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