TFH Volume: 34 Issue: 09 Archives

Gird Yourself for Digital Transformation Failures in 2024

February 14, 2024 Alex Woodie

Spring is still more than a month away in the Northern Hemisphere, but change is already in the air when it comes to enterprise IT departments in 2024, who are under the gun to accelerate digital transformation initiatives, particularly those involving artificial intelligence and the cloud. Rosy predictions of business bliss typically accompany the start of these projects, but the reality is most of them are likely to go off the rails and end in IT failures.

That’s the informed opinion of Eric Kimberling, the CEO of Third Stage Consulting and a grizzled veteran of ERP implementations and digital transformation …
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Hybrid Release Management Means Creating An Application Schema

February 14, 2024 Marc Dallas

In a hybrid computing world, no application is an island and similarly no system running those applications and the databases underpinning those applications can be an island, either. And yet, many IBM i shops still behave as if they can be islands when it comes to application release management.

Despite this, based on our own experience and the anecdotal evidence we gather from IBM i shops like yours, there is a clear separation between release deployment in the IBM i world and the “other” release deployments in the enterprise. We need to talk about this.

First of all, application deployment …
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Dynatrace Includes IBM i In Its Observability Bubble

February 14, 2024 Alex Woodie

If you’re looking for an observability tool that supports IBM i, you might want to consider Dynatrace. At first blush, you might suspect the application performance management (APM) experts at Dynatrace have better things to do than to support a proprietary midrange server used viewed as niche by the computing public. But in fact, Dynatrace appears to have devoted substantial resources to supporting the IBM i platform.

Dynatrace is best known for providing enterprise-level APM tools that track down performance issues in complex, multi-tiered applications that involve multiple operating systems, hypervisors, databases, application servers, and sundry other enterprise computing kit. …
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Four Hundred Monitor, February 14

February 14, 2024 Jenny Thomas

To some of you, three words that sound better than “I love you” might be “code compiled successfully.” Just a little Valentine’s humor before we get down to business this week. You will notice our social Calendar is really filling up with lots of new listings for events, so be sure to take a moment to see some of the great learning and networking opportunities that are available to you. In our Top Stories, it won’t come as a shock that AI continues to be a top headline, but we also rounded up some other IBM news to give you …
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Server And Storage Spending To Recover In The Years Ahead

February 14, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

A decade and a half ago, there was a very formal definition of what cloud infrastructure was, and the distinction between what most IT departments acquired or leased and what was rentable in the nascent clouds was obvious. Over the years, the lines have gotten fuzzier, with you being able to acquire systems with utility-style cloud pricing even though they are in your datacenter – just to give one example. Another is something called a bare metal cloud – what you and I might have called hosting in days gone by.

That fuzziness is why we always take any prognostications …
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Gird Yourself for Digital Transformation Failures in 2024

Hybrid Release Management Means Creating An Application Schema

Dynatrace Includes IBM i In Its Observability Bubble

Four Hundred Monitor, February 14

Server And Storage Spending To Recover In The Years Ahead

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