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ARCAD’s Deal with IBM for DevOps In Merlin Is Exclusive

September 20, 2023 Alex Woodie

When IBM launched Merlin in 2022, it touted the browser-based environment as a new way to deliver functionality to the IBM i installed base and potentially to distribute third-party solutions. But right now, the only third-party vendor IBM is working with when it comes to Merlin is ARCAD Software, which has exclusive rights to supply the DevOps components within Merlin, according to executives with both companies.

IBM introduced Merlin with great fanfare in May 2022 as a potentially transformative technology. Not only was Merlin the first browser-based integrated development environment (IDE) from IBM, providing an alternative to the powerful but …
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In The IBM i Trenches With: Maxava

September 20, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The IBM i market is a big animal, even here in 2023 more than three and a half decades after the launch of the AS/400, and that means you have to take a lot of pulses to get a sense of what that animal is doing and how it is doing.

This week, we are talking with John Dominic, who is global vice president at high availability and system monitoring software maker Maxava. Dominic has spent his life in the greater Philadelphia metropolitan area, and, like many people in the IBM midrange, was cultivated very locally even though he …
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Is The Cloud On Your IBM i Horizon?

September 20, 2023 Alex Woodie

It’s almost impossible to ignore the enormous pull that the cloud is exerting on the software industry today. Companies that run the IBM i server are also subject to that gravity, although it has different ramifications for their technological future, as well as the decisions they’ll make if they want to run their operations in the cloud.

IBM i shops, almost by definition, are not running on the cloud today, at least not in the public cloud the way it is normally defined. While there are a handful of managed service providers (MSPs) offering private cloud IBM i runtimes, and …
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Four Hundred Monitor, September 20

September 20, 2023 Jenny Thomas

In June, NPR published an analysis of the existential threat artificial intelligence poses to humanity. Hopefully IBM is heeding that warning as it puts into motion its plans to train 2 million people in AI technologies in the next three years. Readers of Monitor know we have been keeping a watchful eye on IBM and how AI is playing a role in its strategy moving forward. We recently shared articles about IBM hiring freezes and layoffs that were attributed to the adoption of AI, and we continue to keep you in the loop on more developments, as you will read …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 38

September 20, 2023 Doug Bidwell

This episode of the IBM i PTF Guide is being put together in honor of that venerable rodeo clown and comedic actor, Louis Burton Lindley, Jr., better known to all of us as Slim Pickens. Because after a bunch of security vulnerabilities were covered in the prior issue that came out on Monday, we are now all caught up after the holiday and there is not a huge amount going on.

But there is always something you need to watch out for. So read on.

Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level since we last …
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ARCAD’s Deal with IBM for DevOps In Merlin Is Exclusive

In The IBM i Trenches With: Maxava

Is The Cloud On Your IBM i Horizon?

Four Hundred Monitor, September 20

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 38

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