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IBM’s Crypto Card Now a Cloud Service from FNTS

June 28, 2023 Alex Woodie

IBM i shops that want to utilize IBM’s powerful cryptographical processor card to encrypt transactions but don’t want the hassle of buying and maintaining the setup can now tap into a new cloud-based encryption service that utilizes the IBM crypto card and is managed by First National Technology Solutions.

Representatives with First National Technology Solutions and CLAI PAYMENTS Technologies shared details of their joint IBM i encryption solution at COMMON’s recent POWERUp conference in Denver, Colorado. An executive from IBM, which has given its blessing to the offering, was also in attendance at the session.

The need for encryption …
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Blazing The Trail For VTL In The Cloud

March 29, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Making the decision to move IBM i applications to the cloud is a relatively easy endeavor. But covering all of the bases, particularly when it comes to disaster recovery and business continuity, takes some thought because even though the cloud is an ideal place to do HA and DR, not every cloud does it right. And doing it right often means using a mix of technologies and service providers.

IT managers are thinking of moving their IBM i workloads to the cloud for good reasons. They do the math, they weigh the risks and rewards. They take into account all …
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IBM Debuts GRS, A New Data Replication Service in the Cloud

November 16, 2022 Alex Woodie

If you run your IBM i workloads in the IBM Cloud, there is a new data replication offering available that could help you recover more quickly from a disaster. Dubbed Global Replication Services (GRS), the offering is only available for Power Systems Virtual Server customers running in two IBM data centers at the moment. But IBM says GRS could eventually be used with on-prem Power and FlashSystem deployments, too.

GRS, which IBM introduced in a September 22 blog post, provides asynchronous data replication for IBM i, AIX, and Linux data, as well as failover and failback mechanisms. The offering …
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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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Big Blue Taps FalconStor To Move Data To PowerVS Cloud And Protect It

August 22, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

When IBM i shops want to move some or all of their applications to the cloud, they have a lot of options. But there is still only one cloud that is designed and run by the same company that actually makes the Power Systems server and the IBM i operating system and database platform. And that, of course, is the Power Systems Virtual Server, colloquially known as PowerVS these days.

Over the longest of hauls, we expect that a fair number of IBM i shops will use the cloud in some capacity, and some will move their infrastructure entirely to …
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Kill Three Cloud Scenario Birds With One StorSafe Stone

June 1, 2022 Larry Bolhuis

It is a rare event when you can kill two birds with one stone. But thanks to a new partnership between IBM and FalconStor Software, you may have the opportunity to take down three with one stone. And it’s an opportunity I know well since I collaborated with the FalconStor and IBM teams to bring it forward.

Last month, IBM and FalconStor announced a strategic partnership to make the IBM i platform a better player in the hybrid cloud world that I believe will increasingly be a reality for IBM i users who rely on the platform to support their …
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IBM’s Crypto Card Now a Cloud Service from FNTS

Blazing The Trail For VTL In The Cloud

IBM Debuts GRS, A New Data Replication Service in the Cloud

Moving To The Cloud Should Be Easier Than Switching Homes

Big Blue Taps FalconStor To Move Data To PowerVS Cloud And Protect It

Kill Three Cloud Scenario Birds With One StorSafe Stone

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