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New GM Wants To Push IBM Power With Hybrid Cloud And AI

November 13, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Three months ago, the Power division within IBM’s Infrastructure group got a new general manager. This changing of the guard happens every couple of years as Big Blue moves executives around so they can get managerial experience across different lines of business, and this time around, it is Tom McPherson who has been tapped for the top job in the division that is the home of the IBM i platform.

McPherson got his bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Rutgers University in 1990 and got his master’s degree in computer engineering from Syracuse University in 1994. We don’t …
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IBM Finally Comments On Db2 Web Query For i Withdrawal

November 13, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

A little more than a month ago, in announcement letter AD23-0691, IBM abruptly announced the end of marketing for all variations of the Db2 Web Query for i data analytics tool.

At the time, neither IBM nor its partner, TIBCO Software – which is part of Cloud Software Group, a conglomerate that owns TIBCO (which bought Information Builders and Spotfire), JasperSoft, and Citrix Systems (which includes products from Citrix, NetScaler, ShareFile, and XenServer) – had anything to say about the partnership between IBM and TIBCO/Information Builders coming undone.

But something has happened between Big Blue on the one hand …
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IBM To Add Generative AI To QRadar

November 13, 2023 Alex Woodie

If you feel that cyber crooks are getting the upper hand, you’re not alone. Studies show cybercrime volume booming while security professionals struggle to connect the dots and keep up. One possible route forward was presented last week by IBM, which announced that it will add generative AI capabilities to its QRadar SIEM tool.

Security information and event management (SIEM) tools are the sharp end of the stick for security-loving organizations, as they are where the hard work of assembling security data from all of the various components in the modern IT stack (including IBM i) and then trying to …
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IDC Boosts IT Spending Forecasts For 2023 And Beyond

November 13, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

If you asked 1,000 IBM i shops why they were paying a premium for their IBM i systems, all of them would tell you two things: The excellence of the database management system that is at the heart of the IBM i platform and the reliability of the underlying Power Systems hardware and the IBM i operating system that has the Db2 for i database embedded within it.

As it turns out, data management, which includes databases as well as file systems and other storage, is the largest component of spending on server and storage infrastructure in 2022, and it …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 46

November 13, 2023 Doug Bidwell

There’s a bunch of stuff going on this week in IBM i PTF Land. So let’s just get to it.

First, we have a security vulnerability, which you can find out more about in Security Bulletin: IBM i is vulnerable due to a flaw in Samba which could allow an attacker to bypass security restrictions (CVE-2023-4091), located at this link. The issues can be fixed by applying a PTF to IBM i. IBM i releases 7.4, 7.3, and 7.2 will be fixed. The IBM i PTF number for 5770-SS1 contains the fix for the vulnerability.
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New GM Wants To Push IBM Power With Hybrid Cloud And AI

IBM Finally Comments On Db2 Web Query For i Withdrawal

IBM To Add Generative AI To QRadar

IDC Boosts IT Spending Forecasts For 2023 And Beyond

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 46

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