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  • The Other IBM Big Iron That Is On The Horizon

    August 23, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    The Hot Chips conference is underway this week, historically at Stanford University but this year as was the case last year, is being done virtually thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. There are a lot of new chips that are being discussed in detail, and one of them is not the forthcoming Power10 chip from IBM, which is expected to make its debut sometime in September and which was one of the hot items at last year’s Hot Chips event.

    The one processor that IBM is talking about, however, is the “Telum” z16 processor for System z mainframes, and unlike …

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  • IBM i 7.3 Encryption Bolstered With TR8

    April 15, 2020 Alex Woodie

    Customers running IBM i 7.3 got some good news on the security front when IBM announced that the operating system would get support for the latest Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol, version 1.3. And that’s not the only security-related enhancement this group of users received with the new Technology Refreshes.

    Last year, IBM gave IBM i shops the ability to use TLS 1.3, which is strongest publicly available encryption protocol used on the Internet today. TLS 1.3 debuted in the summer of 2018 and has since been adopted by nearly a quarter of sites on the Web, according to surveys. …

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  • IBM i 7.3 And 7.4 Get Their Autumn Tech Refreshes

    October 9, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Big Blue is hosting its IBM Systems Technical University this week, and used the occasion to quietly launch the Technology Refreshes, or TRs as they are known, for IBM i releases 7.3 and 7.4. If you were running around the Venetian Hotel, you could probably stitch together the extent of the updates to the platform, and to be honest, we are still trying to get all of the details, which were not available as we went to press.

    We will tell you what we know now, and then circle back and drill down into the details as appropriate.

    First of …

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  • How IBM i 7.4 Improves Security

    May 1, 2019 Alex Woodie

    The unveiling of Db2 Mirror may have gotten the lion’s share of attention with last week’s introduction of IBM i enhancements. But IBM has also given its customer base some significant security upgrades with the new releases of IBM i, including enhancements to the Authority Collection and support for the latest over-the-wire encryption protocol.

    “Our big things are around those two main themes – availability as well as security,” says Alison Butterill, IBM i product offering manager at IBM. “Those are the two main themes. But we have lots of things across the board.”

    IBM gave customers significant new user-focused …

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