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Profound Rolls Out Node.js Development Services

April 11, 2018 Alex Woodie

IBM i shops that want to get into Node.js development but lack the technical know-how to work with the language may be interested in a new professional service unveiled by Profound Logic last month in which the company will do the actual development work for you.

Node.js has become one of the most popular development languages for a variety of reasons, including the way it unifies JavaScript for back-end and front-end work, the modular nature of Node.js apps, and the overall agility it gives to developers, particularly those building real-time apps that need to run across multiple platforms. The fact …
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Jack Henry Banking On De Novos Surge

April 11, 2018 Alex Woodie

The future of computing might be headed to clouds, blockchain, and analytics everywhere, but that doesn’t mean it’s the end of big iron. In fact, banking software developer Jack Henry & Associates reports that sales of its flagship IBM i-based SilverLake software are going strong, particularly among de novo banks in the past year.

Jack Henry has a solid reputation for developing banking software used by midsized banks and credit unions. The Missouri company has more than 9,000 customers, including a fair number that use SilverLake, which is considered a best-in-class banking platform.

In recent months, Jack Henry has been …
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Human Error Driving Data Breaches, Studies Find

April 11, 2018 Alex Woodie

Preventable errors – including clicking on malicious links sent as part of a phishing attack and misconfiguring servers and network devices – account for a large number of data breaches, according to a pair of studies released last week by IBM and Baker Hostetler.

In IBM‘s annual X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2018, the company concluded that “inadvertent insiders” — or employees who unwittingly cause security incidents through negligent actions – accounted for two-thirds of all the records that were comprised in 2017. IBM says nearly 3 billion records were compromised last year, which is actually down from the 4 …
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Four Hundred Monitor, April 11

April 11, 2018 Dan Burger

“Hey, Pops! How many people died in the Digital Revolution?” This week in Monitor you’ll find a story that provides an aerial view where the path of disruptive technology is as easy to follow as a F5 tornado. The Rochester Post Bulletin describes what its town has seen. And what about the American Dream? The story from ProPublica records eyewitness sources from places where some of the heaviest casualties took place.

Technology’s impacts on society should be recognized for what they are. So, don’t bypass the Forbes article with insights on how to lead a company and its inhabitants through …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 20, Number 14

April 11, 2018 Doug Bidwell

There are a bunch of nips and tucks for the IBM i operating system in this week’s edition of the IBM i PTF Guide, but nothing that will keep you awake at night as sometimes happen on all platforms in the enterprise.

If you are running encryption on your backups, you may want to take a look at this link. The issue is that tape processing fails if the QTADECRYPT data area is found in QUSRSYS and if the keystore file listed in the QTADECRYPT data area is missing from the system. All current releases – IBM i …
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Profound Rolls Out Node.js Development Services

Jack Henry Banking On De Novos Surge

Human Error Driving Data Breaches, Studies Find

Four Hundred Monitor, April 11

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 20, Number 14

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