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Get Help To Batten Down The Hatches On Your IBM i

November 28, 2022 John Fehr

If you have a person on your IT staff that understands the complexities of aggressive malware, ransomware, viruses, and other kinds of hacking and is actually jazzed by this sort of thing – in a good way, a white hat kind of way – and who knows how to use security tools and a deep knowledge to defend your IBM i (and probably your Window Servers ) against such attacks, well bully for you. And if they work for next to nothing, you must be living in some sort of dream world.

For the rest of the IBM i community, …
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Flash Storage Is Table Stakes For Any IBM i Cloud

October 31, 2022 Andrew Johnson David Fahrenkrug

After a long wait, the IBM i market is finally entering the true cloud era, one where utility pricing, performance, flexible capacity, and managed services are all available for companies running the IBM i operating system and RPG, Java, PHP, and sometimes COBOL applications against the Db2 for i relational database.

But there are clouds, and then there are things that should not rightly be called a cloud.

And we think that if you are a modern cloud, then your primary storage has to be flash and that there is no place for a hard disk drive based on spinning …
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The Security Awareness Of People Is The Important Firewall In IT

September 19, 2022 John Fehr

Your company can have the best firewalls, the best intrusion detection and protection systems, and the best sensors and filters all wrapped around the IT organization. Your company can have the IBM i platform, legendary for its rock-solid security, locked down with the tightest security, and everyone can change their strong passwords frequently. Your company can have administrators using tools to monitor exit points and the Integrated File System that can be a breeding ground for viruses. Your company can have firewalls and antivirus software installed on every desktop, laptop, tablet, and smartphone that comes in contact with your infrastructure. …
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Managed Cloud Saves Money By Cutting System And People Overprovisioning

June 22, 2022 Ron Venzin

For most IBM i shops in the world, a unit of compute, storage, or networking on a cloud or a unit of time for a skilled IT specialist is always going to cost more than what it costs to have such talent in house. And so, you would think, putting an IBM i system in the cloud and managing all aspects of that system will always cost companies more money, right?

Wrong.

Here’s the part of the math that people rarely do, and that we do each time we close another cloud and managed services deal for an IBM i …
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With IBM i Security, You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know

March 23, 2022 Ron Venzin

It is not enough to be worried late into the night about the security of your mission critical systems. The IT managers who are in control of the infrastructure at IBM i shops, who also have a lot of Windows Server infrastructure and a smattering of Linux and AIX systems, too, need to actually do something about security. And they have to do something more than just rely on the legendary security of the IBM i platform.

Security software for the IBM i platform has been around since the early days of the commercial Internet, and while a handful of …
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Focal Point Buys UCG Technologies, On The Hunt For More IBM i Deals

January 31, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

There is a wave of acquisitions underway in the managed service provider (MSP) and technical support services businesses of the IBM i market, with companies trying to amass the skillsets to provide a more complete stack of services to IBM midrange shops. The acquisitions are also being fueled by a business model of cross-selling across merged company portfolios and getting the size necessary to expand into new geographies and to find new customers as IBM i shops confront the growing complexity of their infrastructure and looming shortages in skilled IBM i personnel.

That, in a nutshell, is why Focal Point …
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Get Help To Batten Down The Hatches On Your IBM i

Flash Storage Is Table Stakes For Any IBM i Cloud

The Security Awareness Of People Is The Important Firewall In IT

Managed Cloud Saves Money By Cutting System And People Overprovisioning

With IBM i Security, You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know

Focal Point Buys UCG Technologies, On The Hunt For More IBM i Deals

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