TFH Volume: 33 Issue: 19 Archives

Stacking Up IBM i On Entry Power10 Iron Against Windows Servers

April 3, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Because of the dearth of commercial benchmarks that are run on IBM’s Power Systems machines these days, it is hard to make direct comparisons between machines based on Big Blue’s Power10 processor and the Windows Server and Linux platforms – generally an X86 system based on a processor from Intel or AMD. But it is not impossible to do.

And it is an important exercise not because you are thinking of moving off the platform, which of course you are not contemplating, but because by doing this math you can show that it is not really much cheaper to buy …
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Why Modernize Applications? The Reasons Might Surprise You

April 3, 2023 Alex Woodie

A wave of interest in application modernization seems to be cresting over IBM i and mainframe shops in the United States and Europe, and it’s having some unanticipated impacts. We’re also getting a better understanding of what’s motivating companies to jump into these potentially risky projects, which is a topic that EvolveWare touched on in its latest report.

EvolveWare, which develops modernization tools for mainframe and IBM i applications, discussed several aspects of modernization in its report on modernization released last month. Our first take on the report, which is titled The State of Application Modernization 2023, focused …
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Machine Customers Are Not Customers Who Buy Machines

April 3, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The world is getting truly strange. I can appreciate that in a world where hundreds of millions to billions of users all make use of humongous applications that have hundreds to thousands of calls to microservices application snippets and service. But somehow, I just cannot make the leap to something that Gartner is now calling “machine customers.”

The term came to light, for us at least, two weeks ago when two market researchers at Gartner – Don Scheibenreif, distinguished vice president analyst and leader of Gartner’s research on customer experience, and Mark Raskino, also a distinguished vice president analyst as …
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Four Hundred Monitor, April 3

April 3, 2023 Jenny Thomas

We may have flipped the page on the calendar, but the new month didn’t free us from the same issues that have been plaguing 2023. This week’s headlines bring us more news of layoffs and security worries, which we should probably expect to be par for the course in the foreseeable future. It’s not all bad news, though, and we have offered some resources and expert advice below to help you weather the coming weeks. Before you go, be sure to check the latest additions to our calendar for more in-person and online learning opportunities. Here’s wishing for a successful …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 14

April 3, 2023 Doug Bidwell

The IBM i 7.4 Technology Refresh 8 marker PTF is out, and we see it in HTTP Server Group 26. Nothing special so far, just the indication that it is out, but nothing on 7.3 or 7.5 groups, yet – only 7.4. Thank you, Jozef in New Zealand, for catching that, and sharing it! The Four Hundred collective thinks the IBM i TRs might be coming on April 11, but that has not been confirmed by Big Blue as yet.

We mostly suspect this will happen because that is when ITJ Editor Alex Woodie scheduled a trip to Hawaii with …
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Stacking Up IBM i On Entry Power10 Iron Against Windows Servers

Why Modernize Applications? The Reasons Might Surprise You

Machine Customers Are Not Customers Who Buy Machines

Four Hundred Monitor, April 3

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 14

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