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AI Is Coming for ERP. How Will IBM i Respond?

September 8, 2025 Alex Woodie

A wave of artificial intelligence is beginning to wash over the enterprise resource planning software market, changing the nature of how businesses process automation gets done. IBM i has been a solid platform for running ERP systems for decades. But how will the new generation of AI-enabled enterprise apps get to IBM i?

When it comes to automating business processes, ERP packages have been the primary means for achieving it for the past four decades. The big monolithic apps from SAP, Oracle, Infor, and dozens of others have driven trillions of dollars in value by providing a …
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The Power And Storage Price Wiggling Continues – Again

September 8, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Here we go again . . . again. The people in charge of setting global prices for Power Systems and Storage products are rejiggering prices. In announcement letter AD25-1477, dated September 1 and effective on October 1, prices are changing in global markets due to changes in the foreign exchange rates between the United States and those countries.

To be specific, the following countries are seeing the following price changes:
- Japan, 3.5 percent
- India, 2.1 percent
- Philippines, 1.4 percent
- Hong Kong, 1.2 percent
- New Zealand, 0.6 percent
The interesting bit is that back in early July, IBM had cut prices …
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LaserVault Adds Multi-Path Support To ViTL

September 8, 2025 Alex Woodie

LaserVault is shipping a new release of its virtual tape library software that is likely to find a warm reception among customers who need different retention periods for their IBM i backups. By enabling ViTL 4.0 to support multiple storage paths to backend storage appliances, it’s allowing customers to reduce the amount of data they store and giving them an overall more efficient backup environment.

ViTL is the name of LaserVault’s flagship virtual tape library (VLT) for IBM i, which the company (also known as known as Electronic Storage Corp) launched back in 2018. The product, which emulates …
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As I See It: Spacing Out

September 8, 2025 Victor Rozek

Computer rooms have always been somewhat problematic to build and maintain: Raised floors, 24/7 air conditioning, a reliable power supply, and, for larger installations, a backup power source. These requirements were spendy but manageable at least until the rise of AI. To put it bluntly, AI is a resource hog, addicted to excess. Its drugs of choice are land and energy.

The future of datacenters is unfolding in Abilene, Texas. There, Project Stargate is under construction, and the mega-scale OpenAI datacenter can hardly be called affordable. Its estimated cost is $500 billion. The facility includes a whopping eight million square …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Numbers 34, 35, And 36

September 8, 2025 Doug Bidwell

We are determined to get back in synch with the publication schedule of The Four Hundred and the IBM i PTF Guide, so this week you get three issues of the latter inside of one issue of the former, a necessity because PTFs never rest even if publications do take a breather every once in a while.

In Number 34, this was the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level we did on August 23:

PTF Groups 7.6:
- HIPERs – High Impact Pervasive
- Group Security
PTF Groups 7.5:
- HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
- Group Security
PTF Groups 7.4:
- HIPERs
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AI Is Coming for ERP. How Will IBM i Respond?

The Power And Storage Price Wiggling Continues – Again

LaserVault Adds Multi-Path Support To ViTL

As I See It: Spacing Out

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Numbers 34, 35, And 36

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