• Last Chance To Be A Part Of The IBM i Marketplace Survey

  November 1, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Soon, Forta will close out its annual IBM i Marketplace Survey, so now is your last chance to participate and help us all better understand what is going on in the IBM i on Power Systems community.

  The IBM i Marketplace Survey and its accompanying report and the webinar that goes over the results of the survey, which are both presented each February, are an invaluable resource for the IBM i community. This is particularly so since IDC, Gartner, Forrester, and the other IT market researchers and consultancies have long since stopped tracking Power Systems in any kind of detail …

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• Time Is Running Out To Take The IBM i Marketplace Survey

  October 25, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  By now, you are no doubt getting a little tired of us asking you to take the annual IBM i Marketplace Survey. It is beginning to sound a little bit too much like NPR and PBS during pledge drives. And for that, we truly apologize. But, we do want to have as many of you take the survey so we get the best sense of what is happening in the IBM i base that we can get.

  The results of this survey are an invaluable resource for the IBM i community. This is particularly true since IDC, Gartner, Forrester, …

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• So You Wanna Take Another IBM i Survey, Right?

  October 23, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  It is hard to believe that it has been a decade since the IBM i Marketplace Survey was conceived of by the late Dan Burger of IT Jungle and Tom Huntington of HelpSystems, now known as Fortra.

  As you might imagine, we miss Dan every day, and we are committed to the mission that he had to better understand what is going on in the IBM i base. Time is running out for you to participate and have your voice heard and your IBM i shop is counted. Please take a moment and take the survey, which you can do …

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• How Are You Doing, And What Are You Doing?

  October 18, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The IBM i Marketplace Survey is still open, and it is time for you to take a moment and let us know what is going on in your IBM i shop.

  The annual survey, which is in its tenth year now, and its accompanying report and the webinar that goes over the results of the survey, are an invaluable resource for the IBM i community. This is particularly true since IDC, Gartner, Forrester, and the other IT market researchers and consultancies have long since stopped tracking Power Systems in any kind of detail and certainly don’t spend a lot of …

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• Please Take The IBM i Marketplace Survey

  October 16, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Can you believe it? This is the tenth year that Fortra, formerly known as HelpSystems, is taking a survey of the IBM i customers base so it can put together a report to tell us what is going on in the community surrounding the platform that we are all depending upon in some fashion.

  The IBM i Marketplace Survey and its accompanying report and the webinar that goes over the results of the survey, which are both presented each February, are an invaluable resource for the IBM i community. This is particularly so since IDC, Gartner, Forrester, and the other …

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• This Is Your IBM i Market, And Therefore Your Annual Survey

  October 4, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  It has been a decade since the IBM i Marketplace Survey was conceived of by the late Dan Burger of IT Jungle and Tom Huntington of HelpSystems, now known as Fortra. We miss Dan a lot, and you don’t want to miss a chance to help the community better understand itself, which is what all of us at IT Jungle and at Fortra really are after as we ask you, once again, to take the survey.

  We are coming into the home stretch of the 10^th annual IBM i Marketplace Survey. That means time is running out for you …

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• It’s Time To Tell Us How It Is And What You’re Doing

  October 2, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The IBM i Marketplace Survey and its accompanying report and the webinar that goes over the results of the survey are an invaluable resource for the IBM i community. This is particularly so since IDC, Gartner, Forrester, and the other IT market researchers and consultancies have long since stopped tracking Power Systems in any kind of detail and certainly don’t spend a lot of time on the IBM i portion of it.

  Big Blue itself may have lots of insight into its customer base, but it certainly shares very little of that information with the IBM i community. (We get …

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• The IBM i Marketplace Survey Needs Your Input

  September 27, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  It is hard to believe it, but this is the tenth year that Fortra, formerly known as HelpSystems, is taking a survey of the IBM i customers base so it can put together a report to tell us all how we are doing.

  The IBM i Marketplace Survey and its accompanying report and the webinar that goes over the results of the survey, which are both presented each February, are an invaluable resource for the IBM i community. This is particularly so since IDC, Gartner, Forrester, and the other IT market researchers and consultancies have long since stopped tracking Power …

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• A Peek Inside Fortra’s Cybersecurity Catalog, And Its Cyber Future

  June 12, 2023 Alex Woodie

  The evolution of Fortra, formerly HelpSystems, from a small IBM i systems management and monitoring provider from the Minneapolis area into one of the top 10 cybersecurity solution providers with an estimated $800 million in annual revenue is an interesting story, and one that we have already written. But what, exactly, does Fortra do in the security realm?

  The cybersecurity space is changing quickly at the moment, as hackers look to exploit vulnerabilities in software and human processes. Lots of security software vendors are trying hard to keep up with the rapidly evolving threat landscape, so where does …

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• Fortra Issues 20th State of IBM i Security Report

  May 24, 2023 Alex Woodie

  IBM is celebrating 35 years of its midrange platform next month, and there is no doubt it will be an exciting moment for the IBM i community. But there’s another occasion you might not be aware of: the 20th annual State of IBM i Security Study, which was issued last month by Fortra (formerly HelpSystems).

  Back in 2004, the security experts at PowerTech took it upon themselves to analyze the configurations of customers’ actual iSeries and AS/400 servers (there were still AS/400s around) and write a report sharing what they found. As you might imagine, the state of security, as …

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