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2023 IBM i Predictions, Part 1

January 16, 2023 Alex Woodie

What will happen in the IBM i world in 2023? Your guess is as good as ours, which is why we have corralled some of the most respected names in the industry to gaze into their crystal balls and give their prognostication for the year to come.

Donnie MacColl, the senior director of technical support and GDPR data protection officer at Fortra (formerly HelpSystems), kicks off this year’s batch of predictions with an expectation of more automation, thanks to a lack of skilled employees.

“Automated operations will accelerate along with migration to the cloud,” MacColl tells us. “Automation is key …
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Thoroughly Modern: How To Optimize IT In 2023

January 16, 2023 Jeff Swartz

It should be no surprise to anyone that applications running on IBM i are business critical. In many cases, these crucial systems keep the business alive day-to-day. Working with organizations around the globe, we are seeing a lot of activity happening in the IBM i space to optimize operations and put in new workload models. Many IT organizations are looking at upgrading. This includes implementing tech refreshes and moving to Power10 systems.

Now is the time really to think about what the ideal model is for where to run which applications.

Historically, when companies looked at infrastructure upgrades, they would …
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Is That What You Think Modernization Means?

January 16, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

When most IBM i shops think about “modernization,” what they are talking about is taking legacy applications and in some fashion – and quite possible with many different methods – making those applications work better on newer kinds of clients and/or using newer front-end technologies to make them function better or look better. The researchers at IDC have a more expansive definition of modernization, at least according to a whitepaper that the market researcher recently did on behalf of the Power Systems line at IBM.

That whitepaper, entitled The Key Requirements of Modernization and the Role of IBM Power10, …
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Tune In To The 2023 IBM i Marketplace Survey Webinar

January 16, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Last fall, many of you took part in the 9^th annual IBM i Marketplace Survey that is done by Fortra, formerly known as HelpSystems. And on January 26, Fortra will host the webinar at 10 a.m. Eastern time that will unveil the results of the survey and present historical trends and analysis by a collection of experts.

You can sign up for the webinar at this link, which is free and which will last for an hour.

Among the many topics that will be covered are:
- Power10 adoption and future plans
- How organizations continue to support remote
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 3

January 16, 2023 Doug Bidwell

Last week was pretty quiet in PTF Land, as many of you might have expected. And considering that we were dealing with the Log4J vulnerability nonsense this time last year, we will take that as a bonus and just have Volume 24, Number 2, of the IBM i PTF Guide as a placeholder of sorts. This week is a bit more interesting, but nothing too big as yet. We have another 49 weeks in the year, so no hurry.

Just a reminder to read and heed: IBM Electronic Fix Distribution / IBM Fix Central systems will end support for unencrypted …
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2023 IBM i Predictions, Part 1

Thoroughly Modern: How To Optimize IT In 2023

Is That What You Think Modernization Means?

Tune In To The 2023 IBM i Marketplace Survey Webinar

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 3

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