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IBM Kills Off Fax/400, But Alternatives Are Available

August 19, 2024 Alex Woodie

IBM will cease supporting Facsimile Support for i, commonly known as Fax/400, with the next release of the IBM i operating system, it announced last month. That tees up an opportunity for third-party vendors like Fresche Solutions and others to fill the void for a communication technology that is still used by businesses.

The IBM Facsimile Support for i (5798-FAX) product was not among the group of 16 IBM i products that IBM initially withdrew from sales and support with its discontinuance of support letter back on May 7, the same day that it announced the latest technology refreshes (TRs) …
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AI In The Cloud: The PowerVS Advantage

August 19, 2024 Tom Horan

The relentless advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) necessitates a robust infrastructure that can manage complex data, deliver powerful processing, and scale efficiently. While traditional on-prem solutions have their merits, the cloud model is modern. By fusing the control and performance of best-in-breed high-performing systems in the cloud with the flexibility and scalability of the model, organizations can elevate their AI workloads to new heights of efficiency and innovation.

The foundation of this strategy is PowerVS, IBM’s robust cloud platform for running enterprise applications. Watsonx.ai is IBM’s generative AI and scientific data platform that enables the use of AI models. PowerVS …
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IBM Kills Off Entry Power Server Hardware Subscription, Old Features

August 19, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Big Blue has been talking about offering a complete IBM system, including hardware, software, and support, as a single offering and under a single price, for more than two years now. The company talked about it back in July 2022, and we got the full scoop on pricing on the IBM i System Subscription, the first instantiation on the Power S1024 server, back in September 2022.

This looked like the wave of the future, with a single per user cost of around $50 per month per user for a machine, which as we pointed out at the time, is …
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IBM Tweaks Power10 Hardware: Fatter Memory, Other Stuff

August 19, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

We haven’t seen a lot of hardware announcements this year from Big Blue for the Power Systems platform, and you really should not expect much in the way of new hardware when Power11 systems are expected to be launched in 2025 and the Power10 machines have been in the field since late 2021 for the Power E1080 and since July 2022 for the rest of the line.

To be fair, we did have the entry “Bonnell” Power S1012 machine come out in May this year. So it has not been a total drought. But hardware launches are not on an …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 32

August 19, 2024 Doug Bidwell

You knew that this was not going to last forever. We had a few weeks where there were not any security vulnerabilities in the IBM i stack, and now you have three you need to attend to this week. There are some patches for WebSphere middleware as well.

Let’s start with the security issues.

First, we have Security Bulletin: Multiple Vulnerabilities in IBM Java SDK affect IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty due to July 2024 CPU, which you can read all about here. The affected products include:
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Affected Product(s)					Version(s)
IBM WebSphere Application Server			
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IBM Kills Off Fax/400, But Alternatives Are Available

AI In The Cloud: The PowerVS Advantage

IBM Kills Off Entry Power Server Hardware Subscription, Old Features

IBM Tweaks Power10 Hardware: Fatter Memory, Other Stuff

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 32

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