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Data Is Streaming Into The Cloud, Including From IBM i

November 14, 2022 Alex Woodie

We are in the midst of a vast migration of data into public clouds, as companies seek to leverage technological innovation occurring in the cloud for competitive advantage. While there are no IBM i runtimes in the public cloud yet, IBM i shops are still getting value by moving their valuable Db2 for i data into the cloud, often using streaming technologies and tools like Apache Kafka and Apache Camel, as well as an updated ETL offering from IBM.

It is tough to understate the magnitude of the transition to the public cloud is having on the $4 trillion IT …
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Court Throws Out Lawsuit From Chinese Power Systems Partner Against Big Blue

November 14, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

It is not often that we get any insight into the geopolitical workings of the Power Systems business that is central to this publication and to all of you who work on the IBM i platform. Often, the only way we learn anything is when two parties sue each other in court. Such is the case with the lawsuit filed against Big Blue back in September 2021 by Beijing Neu Cloud Oriental System Technology. The lawsuit, as it turns out, was tossed out of court last week.

China has presented as many challenges as it has opportunities for all …
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A Few More Power Systems Updates Before 2022 Ends

November 14, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

It has been a pretty eventful 2022 for the Power Systems line, and Big Blue has a few ends to tie up before the year comes to a close. And that means we have a few more things to tell you here and there.

First up, there is a new feature on the high-end “Denali” Power E1080 server announced last September as the first member of the Power10 family of systems that lets customers mix OMI differential DIMM (DDIMM) memory sticks of different capacities on the Power10 single chip module (SCM) that is at the heart of the system.

When …
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IBM Gives Temporary Reprieve For Power8 Core And Memory Activations

November 14, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Big Blue is pretty generous when it comes to having features for past generations of machines available for purchase, even when they are two generations back from whatever it is currently selling. But sooner or later, IBM wants to sell the new machines and it stops selling the old stuff. Even if it is only processor and memory activations on machines that are already in the field, which is the easiest sale in the world because IBM doesn’t really have to do much.

This may be the most profitable kind of sale that Big Blue does, but sooner or later, …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 46

November 14, 2022 Doug Bidwell

This week, you will find much to your surprise that Access Client Solutions 1.1.9.1, which was promised for delivery on December 2 back at the NAViGATE 2022 COMMON conference in St Louis, is out a few weeks early. We saw it available and downloaded it on November 11, which means it is a few weeks early.

ACS 1.1.9.1 follows on the heels of the 1.1.9.0 release that came out in April 2022, with mitigations for the Log4j security vulnerabilities. We don’t know the full set of enhancements yet, but this IBM i – ACS Updates page at Big Blue …
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Data Is Streaming Into The Cloud, Including From IBM i

Court Throws Out Lawsuit From Chinese Power Systems Partner Against Big Blue

A Few More Power Systems Updates Before 2022 Ends

IBM Gives Temporary Reprieve For Power8 Core And Memory Activations

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 46

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