TFH Volume: 27 Issue: 54 Archives

Why Not Overclock Power Chips For IBM i?

August 28, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Remember way back in 2000, when Intel, the world’s largest chip manufacturer and now the world’s dominant supplier of processors in the datacenter, said that it would be able to deliver processors that run at 10 GHz by 2011. Well, that was six years ago, and that sure as hell did not happen then and it is not going to happen now. But if anyone can crank the clocks high on a processor, it is IBM with its Power and System z engines, and we think it can push them a little higher and give certain customers who …
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Syncsort CEO Discusses Vision Deal, Product Plans

August 28, 2017 Alex Woodie

Josh Rogers isn’t one to get overly animated, at least in an over-the-top “Ra Ra” kind of way. But in a conversation with IT Jungle last week, there was no disputing the Syncsort CEO’s excitement at closing the acquisition of Vision Solutions and the prospect of delivering big data integration products to a new pool of IBM i customers.

To quickly recap: In early July, Centerbridge Partners, a large equity capital firm, acquired controlling stakes in both Vision Solutions and Syncsort, and announced plans to merge the two companies under the Syncsort brand. Two weeks ago, the vendors formally …
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Guru: Legible Hexadecimal

August 28, 2017 Ted Holt

Since I am a normal red-blooded human being, I try to make life as easy as possible for myself. I don’t do very well in general, but occasionally I manage to afford myself a bit of comfort. Recently I had to deal with long strings of hexadecimal digits. Trying to read that stuff was more than I could deal with, so I wrote a function to help me.

It’s easy to think of hexadecimal literal as strings because they contain the letters A through F. However, they are not strings, but numbers. We use the letters A through F for …
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As I See It: So You’re Thinking About Retirement

August 28, 2017 Victor Rozek

If your IT career spanned the AS/400 years, you may be of an age when you are considering retirement. Certainly, if both your health and your bank account are reasonably robust, retirement can be as sweetly anticipated as a tax refund. The prospect of leisure and travel, or just putting a halt to the daily grind, exerts a strong gravitational pull. But reality is like the spellchecker of the imagination: it corrects misconceptions.

We are, in fact, absurdly encouraged to view decline as the Golden Years. Retirement has long been romanticized by everyone from the AARP, to financial planners, to …
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Investing In IBM i: Adventures In Venture Capital

August 28, 2017 Dan Burger

The IBM i community was stirred last month when Vision Solutions, the dominant software vendor in the high availability arena, was acquired by a private equity company that believes the IBM i market is worthy of an investment estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars. That’s some serious cash. In addition to buying software, intellectual property, and a significant customer base, this private equity firm’s deal commands attention among IBM i observers who have seen investments lead to consolidation of software and service providers.

For now, it looks like a trend without end for a handful of vendors …
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Why Not Overclock Power Chips For IBM i?

Syncsort CEO Discusses Vision Deal, Product Plans

Guru: Legible Hexadecimal

As I See It: So You’re Thinking About Retirement

Investing In IBM i: Adventures In Venture Capital

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