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How Managed Service Providers De-Risk Technologies For Customers

August 21, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

When you run your own IT shop, you can only absorb new techniques and technologies as fast as your people can learn about them. Managed service providers, on the other hand, generally have a higher level of expertise and they spread the cost of learning about and investing in new technologies across hundreds to thousands to tens of thousands of customers, and they can develop expertise across different solutions, targeting various industries and use cases.

But perhaps more importantly, MSPs take the risk out of you trying something new, which makes it far more likely for you to deploy technologies …
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The Science Of Lifting And Shifting To The Cloud

October 11, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Companies in Japan have a long and deep history with IBM computing systems, both its mainframe and its midrange platforms. And in some cases, they have moved from one to the other to maintain the IBM style of integrated systems while attaining the benefits of what many customers still consider the more integrated, less expensive, and easier to use platform that Big Blue offers: Namely, the AS/400 launched in 1988 and its progeny up through the current IBM i generation.

Such is the case with Kosei Securities Co Ltd, which was founded way back in 1961 in Osaka, a …
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Moving To The Cloud Should Be Easier Than Switching Homes

August 29, 2022 Rich Spring

If the modern economy has taught us anything, it is that ownership is sometimes overrated. There are many things that we are accustomed to buying that we might better rent at a slight premium.

The cloud IT infrastructure is one of those things. This new deployment and purchasing model is a boon for the workloads we rely on. Done right, a move to the cloud should be relatively painless, if possibly a little time consuming.

But for a lot of IBM i customers, the idea of moving to infrastructure outside of local control is scary, not because of their fear …
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