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Who To Consult With On Your Cloud Strategy, And Who To Manage It

May 18, 2026 Doug McMaster and John Klockenkemper

If you run IBM i, you already know what operational discipline looks like. Tightly governed security models. Decades of validated business logic embedded in RPG and DB2 for i. Systems of record that have been running continuously since before “the cloud” was anything more than a weather term. Your platform is not fragile – it is, in many ways, the most stable and secure thing in your data center.

But the world around IBM i has changed. As we discussed in our previous IT Jungle article, the latest IBM i Marketplace Survey data confirms what most shops already know: …
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You Are Much More Than Power Systems, And So Are We

April 13, 2026 Doug McMaster

The AS/400 was born in the age of minicomputers, but that was also when the rise of the personal computer started and eventually led to the revolution of client/server distributed computing. Not only was computing shifted to the PCs on our desks, but also out to file servers, print servers, and application servers that ran all kinds of different platforms, including NetWare, SCO Unix, OS/2 Server, rarely a variant of Unix, what would become Windows Server, and more recently Linux.

Eventually, Windows Server and Linux became not only Web infrastructure and application serving platforms but ran relational databases and sometimes …
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