• Some Insight Into Those Future Power7+ Processors

  July 9, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  A few weeks ago, I told you that IBM was getting ready to start talking about its future Power7+ and System zNext processors at the Hot Chips conference at the end of August. Like you, I am an impatient sort when it comes to getting some insight into future processors from any vendor, and I like to poke around and see what I can find out about these chips as soon as possible because it is interesting and useful to know as much as possible as soon as possible. I like rummaging around the Internet for processor roadmaps and such

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• Help/Systems Buys Safestone To Boost Power Systems Security

  July 9, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  System management, security, and database query software maker Help/Systems has been on an acquisition tear for the past six years, and has done it again with a deal to buy British security software maker Safestone Technologies. The Safestone buy marks the third acquisition by Help/Systems in the past 13 months and demonstrates that the company is serious about extending from its IBM i base out to AIX and Linux platforms. Safestone has offices in the Yorkshire burg of Sheffield and in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, west of London. Like PowerTech and Bytware, two formerly independent security companies that were acquired

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• IBM i Marketing Plans Get The iManifest Touch

  July 9, 2012 Dan Burger

  Boosting the public image of the IBM i operating system is a pretty steep mountain to climb. It is widely misunderstood, often mischaracterized, and repeatedly underestimated by those who are less familiar with it than they are with nuclear fusion. Any faithful follower of the IT Jungle publications knows about iManifest and how the Japanese have used it for brand-specific promotions while it has remained bed-ridden in the United States and the European, Middle East, and Africa markets. Well, look who just got out of bed. It’s iManifest EMEA. What have they done? They’ve come up with a focused plan

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• As I See It: The Visionary

  July 9, 2012 Victor Rozek

  He was a world-class marathon runner, but he is not known for that. He was a defender of human rights, but neither is he known for that. He is better remembered for having shortened a long and terrible war, and for being an originator of the field that remade the world in the last half-century. That field is computer science, and his name is Alan Turing. Yet given his many achievements and with everything to live for, why then did he commit suicide at the age of 42? Turing was a child of the British Empire. His father was a

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• IBM Goes BYOD With VDI

  July 9, 2012 Alex Woodie

  As business computing workloads are being moved from on-premise locations into the “cloud,” it begs the question: What happens to the personal computing environments that people rely on to access legacy client/server applications? Many cloud apps can be accessed directly from a Web browser, but some apps still require a full client running under a Windows or Linux operating system. In June, IBM announced a new virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution aimed at bridging the gap between client/server apps and the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) revolution. Organizations today face a two-pronged challenge of meeting the modern BYOD mandate while simultaneously keeping a

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• IBM Lets You Take PureSystems For A Spin On SmartCloud

  July 9, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The new PureSystem modular and hybrid systems from IBM are both familiar and different at the same time, and will require a little tire kicking before customers are comfortable making the switch from standalone machines to converged boxes. That’s why IBM is offering trial capacity for 90 days to customers who want to take PureSystems out for a spin. The offer, which you can sign up for here at IBM’s developerWorks development web site, was quietly announced on June 1 as a beta program and is available in 59 countries around the world spanning all geographies. The PureSystems are back-ending

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• Avnet Eats The Rest Of Magirus

  July 9, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The big keep on getting bigger, and now master reseller Avnet has ponied up an undisclosed sum to acquire Magirus Group, an IT distributor based in Stuttgart, Germany. Magirus has operations across Western Europe and is in every country except Ireland, Finland, and Norway; the company also has operations in the Middle East, centered in Dubai. The company was founded in 1981 and back in October 2007 when Avnet acquired the IBM and Hewlett-Packard systems distribution business from Magirus, the company had sales in the range of €700 million (about $996 million) and had over 600 employees; the IBM

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• IT Spending Creeps Up A Tiny Bit In North America

  July 9, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The good news is that IT budgets are on the rise in the United States and Canada, according to a recent poll of IT shops performed by Computer Economics. The bad news is that the growth is not very much and is only a tiny bit more than was seen in 2011. Computer Economics just finished up talking to more than 200 IT departments in North America for its IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2012/2013 study, which was just released and which is based on the twice yearly survey that the company does across small, midrange, and large enterprises.

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• The Job Market’s Irresistible Attractions

  July 9, 2012 Dan Burger

  Big recruiting companies, like Dice, keep themselves in the news by continually collecting information from their clients–companies on the search for skilled employees and talented individuals looking for work–and then packaging that data for the media. It’s one of the key elements of content marketing, and Dice is very good at it. When jobs are your business, and so many people want a job or a different job, your information is in demand, especially if the information pertains to hiring trends (sorry, not this month) or the most sought after skills. (Bingo!) If you have these skills, you might

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• PHP Web Development Gets RPG Summit Spotlight

  July 9, 2012 Dan Burger

  When PHP, the Web application development language of millions, was brought into the IBM i community, there was a gag reaction. Not surprising because developers had just recently Java forced down their collective throats during the memorable “Learn Java or learn to flip burgers” era. But as it turned out, PHP has been much easier for RPG developers to swallow and its popularity has continued to grow. “I think the advent of PHP has had a far greater impact in many ways than anything else (even Java) has done,” says Jon Paris, an RPG and IBM i advocate, author, instructor,

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