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LightEdge Acquires Connectria To Round Out Each Other’s Power Play

April 22, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

If there is a large group of IT customers who pay a premium for a premium product but who are also going to be experiencing a skills shortage in the coming years, then you want to be in the position of selling them networking, compute, and storage capacity in the cloud or in co-location facilities. And you also want to be able to sell them add-on managed services to get a bigger share of their overall budget while also helping them to get more things done.

That, in a nutshell, is why LightEdge Solutions is acquiring Connectria Hosting. Both companies …
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What Degree? Kisco’s RCL Fellowship Spotlights Value of Training, Hard Work

April 22, 2024 Alex Woodie

Having a college degree is certainly one path to having a career in IT. But it’s not the only one, a point that Kisco Systems president Justin Loeber is making with the latest round of the Richard C. Loeber Fellowship, which is now accepting applications.

It’s not that Justin Loeber is adamantly opposed to college degrees. After all, the current Kisco Systems owner eventually received a diploma in environmental science and public policy, which he called “a passion play.”

But his father, Rich Loeber, never got a college degree. Despite proving his worth in data processing at a railroad and …
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Guru: Web Concepts For The RPG Developer, Part 1

April 22, 2024 Chris Ringer

Way back in the 1990s, I recall accessing data with only RPG III F-Specs. But nowadays some of that critical data may live in the cloud. The good news is tools like HTTPAPI and RXS and SQL functions like SQL HTTP are available to access that remote data from the IBM i. But what you may not know is how to actually format components in those HTTP requests.

Here I will discuss some techniques to build those components in an HTTP request before sending it across the web.

HTTP Get Versus Post

The two most common methods for an HTTP …
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Gartner: IT Spending To Grow Faster Than Expected In 2024

April 22, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The adoption of generative AI by enterprises and the acceleration of the rates of use of IT services from outside consultants to get stuff done is going to boost IT spending higher than expected this year, according to the prognosticators at Gartner.

In terms of aggregate dollars, the effect if the latter is much larger than the former. The broad IT services category is now expected to account for $1,520 billion in spending worldwide this year, up 9.7 percent compared to last year and representing a $19 billion increase from the forecast that Gartner made in January. It will not …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 16

April 22, 2024 Doug Bidwell

It is an interesting time out there in PTF Land, so brace yourself. There are four security bulletins and two security warnings about potential denial of service vulnerabilities. Let’s do the security bulletins first and then the denial of service issues.

First, we have Security Bulletin: IBM i Access Client Solutions is vulnerable to an infinite loop or out of memory error due to vulnerabilities in Apache Commons Compress, which you can find out more about at this link. The affected product(s) include IBM i Access Family versions 1.1.2 – 1.1.4, and versions 1.1.4.3 – 1.1.9.4. The issue can …
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LightEdge Acquires Connectria To Round Out Each Other’s Power Play

What Degree? Kisco’s RCL Fellowship Spotlights Value of Training, Hard Work

Guru: Web Concepts For The RPG Developer, Part 1

HTTP Get Versus Post

Gartner: IT Spending To Grow Faster Than Expected In 2024

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 16

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