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  • Forced Windows Migration Failures

    November 28, 2016 Dan Burger

    Here’s what 90 percent of the companies don’t do before, during, and after making the decision to migrate from IBM i to Windows. They don’t plan the way they would for any other major business event. Quite possibly that’s because management doesn’t understand the system they currently have and how it works, nor do they understand what the new system entails. Hasty decisions can be costly decisions. Hundreds of thousands of dollars are wasted.

    A recent blog post by Bob Losey on LinkedIn casts a critical look at these migrations and why so many of them are failures.

    Bob Losey

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  • IBM Cuts Core And Memory Pricing On Entry Power Iron

    November 14, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    We are always trying to get IBM to do more to promote the IBM i platform and the Power Systems hardware that comprises the physical part of that platform. In days gone by, Big Blue used to make very public and loud pronouncements regarding its ability to bring customers more value for the dollar, often above and beyond the Moore’s Law capacity increases that are just part of the chip business and usually at the tail end of the product cycle as we are now with the Power8 machines that have been shipping since April 2014.

    IBM is not as

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  • Vulnerabilities In 3DES Encryption Put It Out To Pasture In IBM i

    November 14, 2016 Alex Woodie

    IBM i customers should stop using 3DES, also known as Triple DES, ciphers due to the SWEET32 vulnerabilities that could leave sensitive information unprotected as it moves between client and server via the OpenSSL and OpenVPN protocols. This was the gist of a security alert sent last week by IBM, which also issued new PTFs to address the problems in its own IBM i products.

    On November 4, IBM issued security bulletin N1021697, which discussed what to do about so-called SWEET32 security vulnerabilities in OpenSSL and OpenVPN. The security problems, which are detailed in CVE-2016-2183 (for OpenSSL) and

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  • IBM i Shops Do Less To Get More Done

    November 14, 2016 Dan Burger

    Offloading workloads seems to be a popular pastime for more and more IBM i shops. Some of that work goes to other platforms, but we also see the managed service providers (MSPs) with IBM i capabilities picking up jobs. Traditionally this has been disaster recovery service, but production environments are headed that way as well as shops take a closer look at internal IT staff capabilities and set business priorities. Workload distribution has become a strategic necessity.

    The trend of moving production IT environments to managed service providers continues to be steady among midsize companies with IT staff tied up

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  • Mad Dog 21/21: Of Possible Interest

    November 14, 2016 Hesh Wiener

    Jacob ben Wolf Kranz was, in the second half of the 18th century, the Preacher of Dubno or, in Yiddish, the Dubner Magid. Dubno is a small city in the Ukraine. Two and a half centuries later, Virginia Rometty, the Big Cheese of Big Blue, appears to have heard at least one of the Magid’s tales. Assisted by the Magid’s sagacity, Rometty has soothed the savages of the sell side, beguiled the barbarians of the buy side and inveigled that illustrious investor on the outside, the Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffet.

    Janet Yellen: The head of the Federal Reserve Bank

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  • You’re Hired! Finding Your Next IBM i Pro

    November 14, 2016 Dan Burger

    The skills shortage dilemma for IBM i shops is a reality. It’s also an excuse. New technologies are being introduced rapid fire in IT and each has a learning curve that is being handled by people who choose to do so. It takes time and effort. This is enterprise computing. It’s slightly more difficult than learning to play the kazoo. But nearly every IBM midrange system admin or RPG programmer started out being thrown into the deep end of the pool.

    You don’t find new employees with the enterprise skill sets of someone with 10, 20, or 30 years of

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  • Is the IBM i Skills Shortage Accelerating Platform Migrations?

    November 9, 2016 Alex Woodie

    There are a lot of headwinds working against the IBM i platform, including a high up-front cost, a legacy perception, and executives who automatically default to X64 technology with technology decisions. These are all external challenges that the IBM i community can’t do much about. But there’s one headwind that’s internal to the IBM i community: A growing lack of personnel with the requisite IBM i skills.

    One company that’s transitioning off the IBM i platform due, in part, to a lack of skills is PRGX. For decades, the Atlanta, Georgia, company used IBM‘s midrange server to automate many

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  • Iowa MSP Teams with Vision for Hosted HA

    November 9, 2016 Alex Woodie

    In the market for hosted high availability? There’s a new IBM i offering now available from Iowa managed service provider (MSP) LightEdge Solutions, which teamed up recently with Vision Solutions to put MIMIX and iTERA Availability on its private Power Cloud.

    LightEdge Solutions is a 20-year old IT services firm based in Des Moines that hosts and manages systems on behalf of its clients. The company currently has two data centers, including a 20,000 square-foot facility in Altoona, Iowa, and another located in the underground “SubTropolis” business complex in Kansas City, Missouri. The company is currently building two additional

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  • DSI Tries Virtualized Backup and Recovery for Power Systems

    November 9, 2016 Dan Burger

    Dynamic Solutions International, a company known for its line of virtual tape library (VTL) systems designed specifically for IBM i shops, just released virtualized backup and recovery software pre-built to handle deduplication, replication and encryption. It’s called DSI Restore and it’s implemented onto a VMware environment. DSI says it new backup and recovery virtual appliance is aimed at companies that find traditional cloud-based solutions cost prohibitive.

    DSI considers the backup and recovery appliance on VMware as an opportunity for IBM i shops to save money compared to the cost of adding Linux/VIOS partitions to a separate Power Systems backup

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  • How IBM i Fared in Top ERP List

    November 9, 2016 Alex Woodie

    Every year, Panorama Consulting comes out with a list of the top ERP systems and vendors. The list for 2016 has the usual suspects in it, as well as a decent representation of ERP systems that run on the IBM i platform.

    While there’s no hard data on the matter, anecdotal evidence suggests that enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are the primary type of application that customers run on IBM i servers. Whether companies develop their own software or buy a shrink-wrapped product from a vendor, most companies that run the IBM i server bought it to run a core

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