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2022: An IBM i Year in Review, Part One

December 14, 2022 Alex Woodie

Well, it’s that time of year again – time to look back on the year and contemplate what happened. It was another eventful year in the midrange, with new servers and new operating systems. The IBM i user and vendor communities also worked to make it a rewarding year.

2021 started innocently enough back in . . .

January

Cybercriminals earned a gazillion demerits for their early 2021 Christmas present to cybersecurity professionals: Log4j, the most critical security vulnerability to hit the IT world in years. With a perfect CVSS severity rating of 10, Log4j sent security professionals scrambling in …
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What AWS Supply Chain Can Offer IBM i Shops

December 14, 2022 Alex Woodie

Amazon Web Services says its new machine learning-powered Supply Chain offering can provide better forecasting of inventory shortages, as well as predict demand for goods in all manner of supply chains. That includes companies in the consumer goods supply chain, in which many companies rely on IBM i-based applications to keep the goods moving.

Following years of success building infrastructure and platform solutions, AWS has been creeping up the stack into the application business lately. Usually this is done in partnership with ISVs that supply the software to run atop the sprawling AWS infrastructure. But increasingly, the cloud giant is …
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The Steady Growth Of The Low Code Movement

December 14, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

With IT talent in short supply and expensive as too much demand chases too little supply – a hard concept to get your brains around with over 42 million software developers working around the world creating and maintaining software that has an economic value in excess of $1 trillion a year – it is no surprise that some are looking to low code tools to help automate some aspects of their business.

Low code is not just happening in the datacenters of small and medium businesses writing new applications to take on new problems and add new functionality to systems. …
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Four Hundred Monitor, December 14

December 14, 2022 Jenny Thomas

This is it! The last Monitor of 2022. While we are grateful to have survived another year in the Jungle, the idea of a few weeks off is sounding pretty good about right now. We do have one more issue of The Four Hundred for you to look forward to coming up this Monday, but after that, we will be on recharge mode until 2023. Before we go, here’s one last look around our ecosystem, starting with an opportunity for you to influence the direction of our favorite IBM i. The whole team at IT Jungle wishes you a happy …
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IBM Bolsters Fed Business with Octo Buy

December 14, 2022 Alex Woodie

IBM is buying Octo, a Reston, Virginia-based provider of IT solutions to the Federal government. The acquisition, which was announced last week, is expected to close before the end of the year and should bring IBM expertise and manpower to help federal agencies modernize their operations in specific areas, including data science, AI, big data, security, and the cloud.

Octo was founded in 2006 by Mehul Sanghani to provide IT solutions to federal agencies. Over the years, the company has won some prestigious contracts. In March 2020 it signed a $50 million deal provide the United States Patent and Trademark …
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2022: An IBM i Year in Review, Part One

January

What AWS Supply Chain Can Offer IBM i Shops

The Steady Growth Of The Low Code Movement

Four Hundred Monitor, December 14

IBM Bolsters Fed Business with Octo Buy

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