• 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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