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IBM Tweaks Some Power Systems Prices Down, Others Up

March 27, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Back in September and November of last year, with inflation running a bit crazy, IBM raised prices on selected Power Systems hardware and software with the price changes taking effect on January 1 this year. We went into the details back then, of course, but we are being proactive in looking for any price hikes that might come out of Big Blue relating to its Power Systems machines, systems software, and related storage and networking. And, as it turns out, there have been some more pricing actions that you need to be aware of.

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Disaster Recovery: From OS/400 V5R3 To IBM i 7.4 In 36 Hours

March 27, 2023 Jason Hardy

Earlier this year, I wrote an article entitled The IBM Power Trap: Three Mistakes That Leave You Stuck that described how a series of decisions related to how you manage your applications and IBM Power can leave you stuck. A few people reached out to me with questions so I thought it might be appropriate to share a real-life story about one of our customers, we will call them Glass Corp International (GCI), that got caught in this trap and had to be rescued.

With their busiest weekend of the year just days away, GCI, an Ohio-based company, had all …
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The Disconnect In Modernization Planning And Execution

March 27, 2023 Alex Woodie

Feeling confident in your IBM i or mainframe application modernization plans? That could be due to your lack of understanding of what is about to transpire once you begin the project, according to a new survey from EvolveWare.

EvolveWare, the Santa Clara, California, provider of modernization tools, last week released a study called The State of Application Modernization 2023. The 18-page report is based on a fourth-quarter survey conducted by Global Surveyz (that is not a typo) of 200 large American companies in financial services, insurance, and healthcare that are either in the midst of an application modernization …
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Superior Support: One Of The Reasons You Pay The Power Systems Premium

March 27, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

When you are advocating for the Power Systems platform, and the IBM i operating system on top of it, within your organization, you need every bit of evidence you can find that demonstrates the return on investment for that premium price.

Which is why we are pointing out an IDC MarketScape study that Big Blue just posted as a reprint on its download site covering worldwide support services for the global leaders in enterprise IT. You know, companies like IBM as well as Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Cisco Systems, Dell Technologies, Lenovo, Pure Storage, NetApp, Hitachi Vantara, Oracle, Juniper Networks, and …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 13

March 27, 2023 Doug Bidwell

This week, the IBM i community has to take a look at two new security vulnerabilities. There are PTF updates for IBM Navigator for it that you need to look at. The updated details for the PTFs for Navigator for i are in the link in the ACS_NAV worksheet. And there is also a defective PTF you probably need to take a look at, too.

Now, on to the security vulnerabilities.

First, there is Security Bulletin: IBM WebSphere Application Server is vulnerable to cross-site scripting in the Admin Console (CVE-2023-26283), which you can find out more about here. For …
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IBM Tweaks Some Power Systems Prices Down, Others Up

Disaster Recovery: From OS/400 V5R3 To IBM i 7.4 In 36 Hours

The Disconnect In Modernization Planning And Execution

Superior Support: One Of The Reasons You Pay The Power Systems Premium

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 13

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