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Breathing New Life Into Your POWER7 And POWER7+ Systems

November 30, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan

This is a hard lesson for people to learn, but savvy IT organizations certainly do learn it – some decades ago, some only now. And that lesson is that not every application slowdown and performance bottleneck in a system is directly related to the clock speed or throughput of the central processor. While the processors are indeed central, a system is comprised of main memory, storage, and network I/O, and tuning up a machine as many times as not means bolstering these other components to help the CPU better do the job that is latent in its particular feeds and …
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OpenLegacy Expands Big Data Partnerships

September 16, 2020 Alex Woodie

Over the past few months, OpenLegacy has established new partnerships with a handful of tech firms patrolling the big data waters, including Talend, Collibra, and BigID. According to the legacy application modernization specialist, it’s all part of an effort to help its IBM i and mainframe customers upgrade their applications and experiences.

OpenLegacy is unique among IBM i modernization vendors in its approach. The company’s software allows customers to expose legacy applications, such as those written in RPG, via APIs and Web services.

Now the company is bringing several partners into that API-driven approach. For instance, its partnership with Talend …
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Thoroughly Modern: The Smart Approach to Modernization – Know Before You Go!

September 14, 2020 Daniel Crépeau

In today’s rapidly changing digital economy, the ability to keep up, compete and quickly adapt is critical. Every industry, from transportation and logistics to banking, retail, insurance and even manufacturing, is facing business challenges that are forcing them to think about how they can manage change and be ready when disruption occurs.

Like many others, your organization probably had to evaluate how your systems could adapt to the changes that occurred over the past several months. Here’s an example that you might have seen in your own neighborhood: Restaurant #1 has been developing the ability for customers to place orders …
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Driving System TCO With IBM Global Asset Recovery Services

September 9, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan

When economic times are uncertain, that means by necessity that IT budgets are also uncertain, and saying that IT is the core of the business and that software is eating the world does nothing to change these hard, cold, capital facts. And that is why in these times people often turn to used, refurbished, certified pre-owned, or even remanufactured IT equipment instead of trying to get the acquisition of a PC, laptop, a smartphone, a switch, a storage array, or a server by the bean counters in the accounting department.

This is no different than what many of us experience …
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IBM Global Financing Deals To Push Power E950 And E980 Sales

September 24, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan

As we have pointed out many times before, Big Blue is not just a creator and manufacturer of technology, but as one of the largest renters and lessors of equipment with vast access to capital and a relatively strong balance sheet, it is also effectively a large bank focused on IT. And more times than not, it takes IBM Global Financing – and the economic might that parent IBM brings to bear – to close the deal, as much as any hardware or software technology does.

At the moment, IBM is focused on increasing sales of the midrange “Zeppelin” and …
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Breathing New Life Into Your POWER7 And POWER7+ Systems

OpenLegacy Expands Big Data Partnerships

Thoroughly Modern: The Smart Approach to Modernization – Know Before You Go!

Driving System TCO With IBM Global Asset Recovery Services

IBM Global Financing Deals To Push Power E950 And E980 Sales

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