2018 IBM i Marketplace Survey Archives

It’s Your Last Chance To Take The IBM i Marketplace Survey

October 29, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan

We are coming down to the final stretch and we need you to take a few minutes and participate in the IBM i Marketplace Survey that has been done for the past several years by HelpSystems. The survey takes the pulse of the IBM i community and gives us some insight into what you all are up to.

The community has to express its needs if it ever hopes to steer IBM’s behavior, and Big Blue is more open about this process than many IT suppliers even if it might not feel like it sometimes. So this is your chance …
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It’s Time To Take The IBM i Marketplace Survey Again

October 22, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Another year has come and gone, and it is once again time to take the pulse of the IBM i community and see what is exciting and raising that pulse and what is not.

We truly are a community, and it helps to know what is going on. IBM doesn’t provide much insight into how the Power Systems business is doing, much less the IBM i platform within it, so we have learned to rely on surveys by user groups and by the major software vendors in the community to try to figure out what is going on out there …
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The Persistence Of The IBM i Platform

February 5, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Talking about switching platforms is one thing, and it is relatively easy if you are talking about moving from Unix infrastructure servers based on RISC servers to machines that are going to run essentially the same workloads on Linux systems based on X86 processors. Leaving the IBM i fold, particularly for customers who have created their own applications, is another matter entirely.

That, in a nutshell, is one of the main reasons why the IBM i platform, in its many different incarnations in the past 30 years, has persisted. The database is the stickiest piece of software in the datacenter, …
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The IBM i Base Is Ready To Move On Up

January 22, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Even the most eager hyperscaler or cloud builder in the world has to let a server sit in place, running workloads, for at least three years to get good value on the dollar spent, and in many cases, machines are repurposed to be in the fleet for longer than that. And no company can accept the risk of changing all machines at the same time, for obvious reasons other than cost, because such a change could be very disruptive to any business. Enterprises tend to have less spare iron and fewer techies, and so they are even more conservative, and …
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Security Still Dominates IBM i Discussion, HelpSystems’ 2018 Survey Reveals

January 17, 2018 Alex Woodie

HelpSystems released its much-anticipated annual survey of the IBM i installed base this week and the least surprising finding is this: Security remains the biggest concerns of IBM i shops. However, while security dominates the discussion, the survey revealed that most IBM i shops have no concrete plans to do much about it.

HelpSystems started its annual Marketplace Survey way back in 2014 (with the first survey published in early 2015), and over the years it’s become one of the most cited references for data about the IBM i installed base. Other vendors conduct surveys too, and IT Jungle …
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It’s Your Last Chance To Take The IBM i Marketplace Survey

It’s Time To Take The IBM i Marketplace Survey Again

The Persistence Of The IBM i Platform

The IBM i Base Is Ready To Move On Up

Security Still Dominates IBM i Discussion, HelpSystems’ 2018 Survey Reveals

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