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2025: An IBM i Year In Review

January 12, 2026 Alex Woodie

The calendar has flipped over into the new year, bringing with it hope that the next twelve months will unfold in a positive way. It’s also a good time to reflect on what 2025 brought to the IBM i community, and to remember the big news events that occurred in our little sector of the IT market.

January

IBM hired a new vice president of product management for the Power Systems business. Bargav Balakrishnan was promoted to the position, which was previously held by Steve Sibley. Balakrishnan, who has a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, …
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Happy Holidays To All Of You From All Of Us

December 8, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Well, 2025 is almost in the rear view mirror, as hard as that may be to believe. And thank heavens for the holidays – they are literally holy days – that give us a chance to reflect on the year and to spend precious time with family and friends.

As the years go by, time seems to run faster and faster, but that is, in part, an illusion that is caused by the cycle time of the real neural network in your head and decreasing differentiation among functional areas in our brains. Neurons fire less often as we age, and …
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