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2024: An IBM i Year In Review

December 4, 2024 Alex Woodie

It’s hard to believe that yet another year is coming to a close. As 2024 rolls to its merciful end, it’s time for us to take stock of the major events and announcements that impacted the IBM i community.

January

News broke in late January that revenue in IBM’s Power Systems business grew for the second year in a row in 2023. TPM’s model showed $1.53 billion in external Power Systems sales for the year, which was a hair above the 2022 figure, which was a hair above the 2021 figure. It’s not 2010-era numbers, when the figure was north …
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Innovate To Deliver Your 2025 Vision

December 4, 2024 Richard Dolewski

IT innovation refers to the process of introducing continuous improvement by leveraging technology, services, and solutions to empower IT service delivery. Innovation involves strategically implementing holistic solutions to enhance current and future efficiency across the organization. With fast-paced technological advances (AI, Cloud, Security, Resiliency) disrupting all industries, these future outcome-based technologies create hesitation and pause to what’s achievable, required now, and relevant to your company’s strategic plans.

Innovation must bring changes to the core delivery of IT-related services that drive increased efficiency thus making IT services delivery less costly, less time-consuming to implement, automated to improve services levels, and further …
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Security Top of Mind as Massive Hacks Continue

December 4, 2024 Alex Woodie

The calendar indicates peace and joy, but instead a sense of dread and fear permeates business, as the number and scope of security breaches grows and new regulations loom on the horizon. Ransomware, in particular, is proving itself to be a thorny issue for companies of all sizes, including IBM i shops.

The latest mega-hack involved Chinse state actors infiltrating the American telecommunications backbone, where they not only accessed huge numbers of call detail records (CDRs) – which they used for counter-espionage purposes – but also read text messages and listened to Americans’ phone calls.

Known as Salt Typhoon, the …
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Four Hundred Monitor, December 4

December 4, 2024 Jenny Thomas

We made it! This is the final installment of Four Hundred Monitor in 2024. We have enjoyed following the news with you all year long, and while we are looking forward to more in 2025, we’re also looking forward to the holiday break. What can we expect in the new year? You’ll see in our top article below that IBM’s CEO is enthusiastic about the year ahead, and you don’t need a crystal ball to know that we will be talking about all things AI and GenAI. Our Calendar has dried up for now, but we expect it to start …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 46

December 4, 2024 Doug Bidwell

First time in a long, long while there are pre-requisites for a Technology Refresh. Sorting out the contingencies will keep us busy for the rest of the year!

Here’s the word from IBM: OSP-Technology Refresh : Prereq licensed internal code PTFs, which you can find out more about at this link. These are the pre-reqs for the Technology Refreshes:
- IBM i 7.5: SJ02898
- IBM i 7.4: SJ02897
There are also a number of other issues – three to be specific – that have been reported to Big Blue and that have been issued tweaks to correct them. They are …
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2024: An IBM i Year In Review

January

Innovate To Deliver Your 2025 Vision

Security Top of Mind as Massive Hacks Continue

Four Hundred Monitor, December 4

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 46

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