• Four Hundred Monitor, January 25

  January 25, 2023 Jenny Thomas

  Have you noticed there is national day for just about everything? Just in the month of January, we have national chocolate-covered cherry day, national bean day, national houseplant appreciation day, and national dress up your pet day, to name just a few. As it turns out, we are now in the middle of a week that our industry should probably be celebrating a little bit louder. Data privacy week, which runs from January 22 through 28, was created by the National Cybersecurity Alliance to help spread awareness about online privacy, and educates citizens on how to manage personal information, and …

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• Four Hundred Monitor, December 14

  December 14, 2022 Jenny Thomas

  This is it! The last Monitor of 2022. While we are grateful to have survived another year in the Jungle, the idea of a few weeks off is sounding pretty good about right now. We do have one more issue of The Four Hundred for you to look forward to coming up this Monday, but after that, we will be on recharge mode until 2023. Before we go, here’s one last look around our ecosystem, starting with an opportunity for you to influence the direction of our favorite IBM i. The whole team at IT Jungle wishes you a happy …

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• Four Hundred Monitor, December 7

  December 7, 2022 Jenny Thomas

  We are back from the Thanksgiving break, but not for long. Just because there are only a few weeks remaining on the calendar doesn’t mean there is any shortage of news and happenings in and around our IBM i ecosystem. We’ve got a few news bites for you, as well as some resources that might come in handy as we wind down 2022. We are looking to fill up our calendar in 2023, so please sure to pass any events our way. Four Hundred Monitor will wrap up for the year next week, but before we go, let’s take a …

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• Four Hundred Monitor, October 5

  October 5, 2022 Jenny Thomas

  To some people, October means pumpkins, apple picking, and cozy sweaters. But in this world, October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, which was launched by the National Cybersecurity Alliance and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in October 2004. “Awareness” is the key word describing the “holiday,” the point being you want to create cyber awareness to help your organization manage risks and change employee behavior. We write about cybersecurity here in the Jungle quite a bit, basically for the same reasons. We hope by keeping you informed that you, and your organization, will take steps to be safe. Happy October. …

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• Four Hundred Monitor, September 28

  September 28, 2022 Jenny Thomas

  Podcasts are all the rage right now. You can find one on most any topic, and it seems just about everyone has one. Podcasts aren’t just for the famous, anyone can have one. But if you’ve visited your favorite platform for music and looked at the podcast category, you probably felt a little overwhelmed. There are so many podcasts out there, it’s hard to know where to start. So to that end, in this edition of Monitor, instead of Top Stories, we sought out some podcasts relevant to our industry that you might want to give a try during your …

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• Four Hundred Monitor, September 14

  September 14, 2022 Jenny Thomas

  Labor Day is a turning point in the year. Summer comes to an end. Students are all back to school. And the beginning of conference season, which means the news cycle will start ramping up. It’s also time for the now 9^th annual Marketplace Survey from HelpSystems. Your responses give us a snapshot of how organizations running IBM i are using the IBM Power hardware and the operating system, and lets us take the pulse of entire community. It’s worth a few minutes of your time, and you’ll have an opportunity to look at the results once all of …

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• Four Hundred Monitor, August 17

  August 17, 2022 Jenny Thomas

  Summer may be winding down as the kids head back to school, but the IT ecosystem is heating up with lots of news and events for you in this week’s Monitor. September and October are historically very busy months in the Jungle, but after the slower pace of the past couple of years, people seem ready to get back to business. Before you read on, a quick reminder about our series the entry and midrange Power10 machines by our fearless leader Tim PM. This week’s installment is the fifth in the series and it’s worth your time to catch up. …

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• Four Hundred Monitor, August 3

  August 3, 2022 Jenny Thomas

  Summer is heating up, but you won’t catch IBM lounging in the shade. Big Blue has been busy with more than Power10. As we look around our ecosystem this week, we see IBM has its hands in many pots, with Arvind Krishna being named one of the most influential executives of 2022. You can catch up with all the IBM news below, plus we have some new resources and calendar items for you. And if you haven’t been following our coverage of Power10, you should take a minute go on the deep dive with our very own Tim Prickett Morgan. …

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• Four Hundred Monitor, July 20

  July 20, 2022 Jenny Thomas

  We’re always watching for the health of our ecosystem, and one of the easiest indicators on how thing are going is to watch the bottom line. This week, IBM reported a better-than-expected second fiscal quarter 2022 during its financial analyst conference call, and the analysts seem to agree the reasonable, although no one seems to be celebrating too hard as the worry of possibility of weakening IT spending looms in light of unprecedented inflation. But it’s OK to remain hopeful that the good trends will continue, and there’s more good news to go through, like the first article in Tim …

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• Four Hundred Monitor, July 13

  July 13, 2022 Jenny Thomas

  In the Jungle, our editors keep you informed by talking to the industry movers and shakers and relaying what they learn. (In fact, if you missed Tim’s inside scoop on Power 10, be sure to read the Top Story below.) Next week, you have the opportunity to ask your own questions of IBM i Chief Architect Steve Will during an Able One webinar on July 19. You can get the details and link for the webinar in the Chats, Webinars, Seminars, Shows, and Other Happenings section below, and take the opportunity to ask your Power10 and IBM i 7.5 questions. …

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