Peder Lundblad
Coming up the ranks in the IBM pre-owned/refurbished systems side of the business in the late 1980s, Peder Lundblad began to work on, build, upgrade and perform field upgrades and installations on the early generation AS/400s, and continued growing as a technical consultant and hands on engineer in the field. In the early 2000s, with an opportunity to work with the managed hosting side of the AS/400 industry, found the passion to architect and deliver IBM i solutions for partners and end users desiring to embrace the platform beyond supporting and managing internally. Almost 30 years later, continues to be an advocate for the IBM i platform and the IBM Storage and Power Systems it runs on, evangelizing the best platform on our little planet.
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Thoroughly Modern: Taking Charge of Your Hardware Refresh in 2022
February 14, 2022 Peder Lundblad
IBM i shops are well known for paying a premium for their systems because they are worth it, but they are also just as well known for hanging onto aging hardware a bit past its prime, which has its own kinds of economic costs in higher maintenance and operational costs as well as the risk of a failure in some key component of the hardware or of having an older operating system release that does not have a key security vulnerability or bug patched.
IBM does a very good job of keeping hardware technology cycles regular, and so there is …
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