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Questions Arise Over IBM’s New Cloud Backup for IBM i

October 31, 2016 Alex Woodie

IBM raised some eyebrows with the recent release of its Cloud Storage Solutions for i, which enables IBM i shops to back up and archive DB2 and IFS data to its SoftLayer cloud. Much of the initial feedback to IBM’s first native cloud solution for IBM i was positive. But some IBM business partners are already questioning whether the solution will be actually useful for customers as it now stands.

Cloud Storage Solutions for i was a part of IBM’s big October 11 announcement for IBM i 7.3 Technology Refresh 1 (TR1) and 7.2 TR5. The software, which carries product

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Don’t Overlook These Network Auditing Improvements in IBM i 7.3

October 24, 2016 Alex Woodie

What is going across those network cables connecting your IBM i server to the outside world? It’s not always easy to tell, and IBM hasn’t exactly made it easy. But thanks to new security event types and exit points released earlier this year in IBM i 7.3, you can get deeper visibility into network traffic and make your company’s SIEM system work better with your IBM i along the way.

The focus over the past few weeks has been on IBM i 7.3 Technology Refresh 1 and IBM i 7.2 TR5. There is a lot of good stuff in there,

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IBM Opens Up Coherent Protocols For Power Chips

October 24, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan

In case you did not get the memo, IBM is dead serious about promoting the Power architecture as a credible alternative to the Xeon architecture from Intel and the various upstarts that want to take a piece of the processing action in the datacenter. The OpenPower Foundation, formed a little more than three years ago, is the center of gravity for the Power push, but Big Blue has aspirations for some of its technology that go well beyond its own chips.

That is why IBM is forming the OpenCAPI Consortium, a group of like-minded IT suppliers and customers who

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Cross-Platform Development Targets Code Management

October 24, 2016 Dan Burger

The IBM i platform has a reputation that is both good and bad. It is powerful, dependable, securable, manageable, but highly proprietary. Being proprietary means the system and the people who support it on often on their own island. That wasn’t a problem for many years and some shops can still live with that. For others, the “doesn’t play well with others” description doesn’t cut it any more. So IBM is working to change that.

You probably noticed. Going from proprietary to open is not a quick fix. But compared to the days when almost everything in enterprise computing was

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Mad Dog 21/21: Achilles And The iPhone

October 24, 2016 Hesh Wiener

In the 5th century BC, a Greek philosopher named Zeno invented clever, paradoxical puzzles. In the most famous, he argues that swift Achilles, racing a turtle that has been given a very modest lead, can never catch that torpid tortoise. Twenty-one centuries later, two geniuses simultaneously and independently used Zeno’s view of infinity and the infinitesimal to create calculus. It took another 500 years for Steve Jobs’s magnificent iPhone to newly define the infinite as Apple sold more than a billion devices, spawned a trillion dollar business, and inspired new forms of social and economic organization.

Zeno’s inspirational

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Knowing Node

October 24, 2016 Dan Burger

Node.js is not just one of many open source components that are riding in the IBM i bus these days. It is the one that is most talked about these days. There are many notable IBM i open source passengers on the bus including, the Apache web server, Java, PHP, MySQL, Ruby, Python, and Perl. IBM has done a good job making the platform less proprietary. But Node.js is the one to watch.

If you haven’t been introduced to Node.js, the first thing to know is that it is mostly referred to as Node. The .js, which is a reminder

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On Your IBM i Radar Now: GDPR

October 19, 2016 Alex Woodie

IBM i shops that have European customers, take note: In about 18 months, you will need to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), or face hefty fines. That’s not much time to come to grips with a data privacy law that’s been called “PCI on steroids” and an “IRS audit of your data,” but that’s the reality nonetheless.

If you’re wondering what the heck this GDPR thing is, you’re not alone. A survey conducted by Dell last month indicates that fewer than 20 percent of company representatives were even aware of GDPR. But as the old saying goes,

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One on One with HiT’s Giacomo Lorenzin

October 19, 2016 Alex Woodie

Some people say data is the new oil. If that’s true, then what better business to be in than selling tools to the data miners? That’s basically what HiT Software does. IT Jungle recently caught up with Giacomo Lorenzin, the managing director for the BackOffice Associates subsidiary, to talk about what’s driving business, the latest in data integration tools, and the state of the industry.

This is a condensed version of a Q and A that was conducted via email.

IT Jungle: First of all, how’s business? How are sales of IBM i software going?

Giacomo Lorenzin: The

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Customers React Positively to IBM i Alerting Tool from Kisco

October 19, 2016 Alex Woodie

When Kisco Information Systems launched its $400 alerting tool in 2015, there were questions whether a relatively simple product would resonate with IBM i shops. A year later, Kisco is delivering a second version of iEventMonitor, and customers are singing its praise.

Kisco launched iEventMonitor in March 2015 with a basic premise: provide monitoring and alerting of key IBM i resources like QSYSOPR and QSYSMSG queues, the job queue, message queues and storage and CPU monitoring.

While other vendors developed tools that could automatically respond to events on an IBM i server, Kisco eschewed the extra functionality that would increase

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Agilysys Delivers Upgrades to Back Office and Customer-Facing Software

October 19, 2016 Dan Burger

The notion that what goes on in the IT departments of companies in the gaming industry translates into IT departments of every other business is not a long-shot bet. The gaming business–casinos and their tentacles that reach into restaurants and lodging–is as customer-focused as any business you can name. And, as many of you know, it’s a bastion of IBM midrange computing–an important niche in the IBM i ecosystem.

Developments here often fan out to other industries when business efficiencies and increased revenue generation opportunities have been demonstrated.

Agilysys, with its property management, inventory and procurement software Stratton Warren

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