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  • As I See It: ITCare

    January 13, 2014 Victor Rozek

    If you’re a mouse but aspire to grow into something as large as an elephant, evolution may oblige you, but it will take about 24 million generations–give or take a mass extinction. But there are faster ways. You could become a government program. Conceived through the biological mastery uniquely resident in the U.S. Congress, a mouse built to government specifications instantly becomes an elephant. Just add money.

    Thus we have the grotesque specter of Obamacare. All 1,990 pages of it. Neither fish nor fowl, it crawled out of the primordial ooze of the healthcare lobby, a fully formed pachyderm. But

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  • IBM Preps Flashy Servers For January Launch

    January 13, 2014 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    It looks like Big Blue is going to get the jump on its server competitors in previewing its next generation of flash-enhanced servers based on Intel‘s Xeon processors. IBM has an announcement scheduled for January 16 that will include the top brass from its System x, PureFlex, BladeCenter, and Flash Systems business units, but don’t be fooled. Anything IBM does for System x it will eventually do for Power Systems.

    As it has been doing for the past several years, IBM will be hosting a webcast to launch its new systems and their flashy storage, and you can sign

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  • Reader Feedback On All Your IBM i Base Are Belong To Us

    January 13, 2014 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Timothy,

    Merry Christmas and best wishes to you and your staff. I can’t tell you how much we enjoy your analysis and the thoughtful articles you, Dan, and Alex write. IBM should create a Media BP class and invest some co-op marketing funds in you given what you do to educate people about IBM Power Systems.

    I want to make a couple additional points in reference to your article, All Your IBM i Base Are Belong To Us.

    Lately, we’ve seen a steady trickle of small customers who have been running old software on old boxes, transferring their entire

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  • IBM Carves Out Watson Business Headquartered In The Big Apple

    January 13, 2014 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Big Blue wants its analytics business to grow to $20 billion by the end of 2015, and it wants its Watson question-answer machine to do more to help the company make those numbers. And so, last week in New York, Big Blue created a new business unit, called the Watson Group, to further commercialize the technologies that are at the heart of the Jeopardy! playing system.

    IBM has been working with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, WellPoint, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Cleveland Clinic, and Elsevier on various uses of the Watson expert system in the medical field. Sloan Kettering is

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  • IT Jungle Editor Added To RPG Summit Speakers

    January 13, 2014 Dan Burger

    Ted Holt, senior technical editor of the “Four Hundred Guru” newsletter published by IT Jungle has been selected to the cadre of speakers lined up for the next RPG & DB2 Summit, which will take place March 18 – 20, in Grapevine, Texas. Holt joins a group of instructors that includes Jon Paris, Susan Gantner, Paul Tuohy, Scott Klement, Aaron Bartell, Mike Pavlak, Mike Cain, Tom McKinley, and Barbara Morris. Paris, Gantner, and Tuohy are the proprietors of System i Developer, the training and education organization that stages the twice annual Summit conferences.

    Holt has been on the

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  • Enterprise Software Dominates IT Spending Forecast

    January 13, 2014 Dan Burger

    How’s that IT budget for 2014 coming along? Got that executive seal of approval, or are you still noodling revision number 13? Most budgets in the IBM midrange will likely remain flapjack flat compared to a year ago, but overall worldwide IT spending is predicted to pick up speed. According to the analysts at Gartner, IT spending will tiptoe upward at a 3.1 percent pace reaching a projected total of $3.8 trillion in 2014.

    One of the expected economic drivers will be enterprise software led by customer relationship management (CRM), a marketing and sales department favorite, and supply chain

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  • US Jobs Hit By Big Chill–IT Workers Relatively Warm

    January 13, 2014 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Blame the bad weather that blanketed much of the country in December. Last Friday, the Labor Department reported that the U.S. economy only added 74,000 net new jobs, which is a lot less workers than is needed to be hired for the unemployment rate to come down and, more importantly, is needed to get people who have long since stopped working getting a paycheck again.

    According to the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of people who were unemployed in the United States went down by 490,000 to 10.4 million in December, which should be

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  • All Your IBM i Base Are Belong To Us

    December 16, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    In last week’s issue of The Four Hundred, I gave you my best estimate of what the current distribution of machines by processor family and software group was based on some information I have heard through the grapevine from IBM and my own estimates. The data showed a number of remarkable things, among them the fact that there are some pretty old machines out there in the installed base despite the massive improvements in price/performance with successive generations of Power-based systems in the past decade.

    What can be done to ensure that this base of customers, which accounts for

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  • IBM i In The Middle Of Infrastructure Overhaul

    December 16, 2013 Dan Burger

    Emerging markets are the accelerator and brakes on the IT spending bus. Countries in Latin America, India, Russia, and particularly in Asia have are expected to drive IT growth to a much greater degree than the mature markets, where businesses are advancing with one foot on the brake pedal. IBM, like any other multinational organization knows where the treasure is hidden. And the IBM i benefits from globalization just like everything else.

    Asia has mature markets–Japan and Hong Kong being the prime examples–where the economy is more in line with the United States, Canada, and Western Europe, which have

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  • 2013: An IBM i Year In Review

    December 16, 2013 Alex Woodie

    As we get ready for 2014, it is worth taking a look back at 2013 and seeing the year that was in the IBM i midrange marketplace. From new servers and operating systems to new security flaws and new business ventures, it was an eventful year. So sit back, grab a beverage, and prepare to reminisce on the IBM i year that was.

    In January, computer security was a front-page news item after several critical vulnerabilities were discovered in Java, including a zero-day vulnerability that hackers were actively exploiting in lieu of patches from Oracle. It turns out that

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