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iSam Blue Offers Choice for IBM i High Availability

August 22, 2018 Alex Woodie

IBM i shops searching for a high availability solution have several options to choose from. One that they might not be familiar with is iSam Blue, a small Utah company that sells a solution called iSB-HA. According to iSam Blue’s president, the company is doing well by competing on affordability and service.

If you’ve followed the history of high availability software on IBM i and its predecessor systems, the name Robert Seal will sound familiar. Before founding iSam Blue, Seal was best known as the original developer for iTera’s data replication software, called Echo2 Seal and iTera parted ways, …
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Debunking Legacy Myths

August 22, 2018 Alex Woodie

In the rush to modernize IT and digitally transform our businesses, legacy systems like IBM i and System z come under increased scrutiny, which is fair. After all, blind loyalty to a particular platform – even Big Blue’s historically stable ones — is a recipe for failure in a dynamic business environment. But when technology providers make questionable claims about the nature of legacy systems in an attempt to sway decision-making, those claims should bear as much scrutiny as the platforms do themselves.

Which brings us to the recent e-book published by First National Technology Solutions and co-sponsored by Dell …
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IBM Adds Mainstream Flash Drives To Power Systems

August 22, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan

We tend to be focused on compute in the IT industry, and the CPUs get a lot of the glory. But the fastest CPU in the world doesn’t amount to anything without peripherals to keep it fed. That is why, of course, that the main frame was called that, after all. There were plenty of other frames surrounding it, making it into a system.

This holds as true for the Power Systems machines as much as any other machine, and whether or not they are running IBM i, too. The good news is that IBM does a fairly good …
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Four Hundred Monitor, August 22

August 22, 2018 Dan Burger

Power9 continues to grab headlines this week, inside and outside the Jungle, as the number crunchers continue to wonder if IBM’s latest release will result in continued good fortune (and good revenue reporting) for Big Blue. AI also stays on the hot topic list, bringing up some interesting (and maybe scary) theories for the future. But using data to your advantage can pay off big dividends and recruiters are starting to look for new ways to find the right talent for the job (think: Moneyball). Surprisingly COBOL popped up on our news radar this week with a refreshing look at …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 20, Number 33

August 22, 2018 Doug Bidwell

This week in IBM i PTF Land is sponsored by snakes. Pythons to be specific. To be more precise, there are vulnerabilities in Python that make it susceptible to denial of service attacks.

Here are the fixes to take care of that. Release 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3 have the same number PTF applicable for all three OS releases:
- 5733OPS Option 2 SI68164
- 5733OPS Option 4 SI67937
Release 7.2 and 7.3 support Python version 2.7/3.6 in the RPM format. You can find out more at this link.

New links this week in the IBM i PTF Guide:
- Cannot Save
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iSam Blue Offers Choice for IBM i High Availability

Debunking Legacy Myths

IBM Adds Mainstream Flash Drives To Power Systems

Four Hundred Monitor, August 22

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 20, Number 33

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