TFH Volume: 33 Issue: 5 Archives

Power Systems Did Indeed Grow Revenues Last Year

January 30, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Back in September, when Blue Blue took a huge write-off to offload some of its pension and retirement burdens to an independent third party, it posted a pretty hefty $3.21 billion net loss. But IBM’s underlying business was functioning about as well as it could under the circumstances and it was reasonably profitable and looking ahead to pretty good Power10 and System z16 upgrade cycles. We forecast that IBM would actually grow revenues for Power Systems for 2022, and according to our model, IBM indeed has done it.

And by a much larger margin than the company has grown overall, …
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The IBM Power Trap: Three Mistakes That Leave You Stuck

January 30, 2023 Jason Hardy

IBM Power has long been known as a stable, reliable hardware platform and as a result companies have leveraged it to run their most critical business applications. For many, it has become so ingrained in their business that they would never choose to migrate away from it.

But for some, IBM Power has become a trap from which they can’t escape. This is not a malicious trap that suddenly jumps up and grabs you but rather a trap that is triggered by a series of decisions made over time with each compounded by the previous. So, what are these decisions …
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Big Blue Decrees Its 2023 IBM Champions

January 30, 2023 Alex Woodie

IBM this year celebrates a bumper crop of IBM Champions, those technology experts who also display “extraordinary advocacy” for IBM products. In total, there are 839 IBM Champions hailing from 60 countries around the world, while in our little neck of the IT wood, there are about 90 members from the global IBM i community who gained the honor.

IBM launched the IBM Champions program in 2008 as a way to honor IBM customers and business partners who not only are subject matter experts but who also are active in the community. Today, there are 11 categories for the IBM …
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As I See It: The Good, the Bad, And The Mistaken

January 30, 2023 Victor Rozek

Writing a comprehensive history of IT would prove daunting if not impossible. The milestones are well documented, but not the steps between. From the legions of unsung programmers who developed the systems we take for granted, to the effects of social media that are both private and collective, IT is a complex swirl of the good, the bad, and the mistaken.

Since hindsight lends itself to clarity (albeit flavored with arrogance), let’s start with the mistaken. The grandest of all IT prediction fails belongs to none other than IBM’s legendary Thomas Watson. Back in 1943 he opined that, “There is …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 5

January 30, 2023 Doug Bidwell

Here’s a question for you: Are you using encryption to download software fixes from IBM? You may not know, and worse yet, you may not know how to figure that out. This is important because as we warned you last fall, IBM’s Electronic Fix Distribution and Fix Central systems will end support for unencrypted fix downloads starting on February 15 of this year.

That gives you two weeks and a day to figure it out. And this document from IBM helps you figure it out and tells you what to do.

Aside from this, it has been pretty quiet in …
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Power Systems Did Indeed Grow Revenues Last Year

The IBM Power Trap: Three Mistakes That Leave You Stuck

Big Blue Decrees Its 2023 IBM Champions

As I See It: The Good, the Bad, And The Mistaken

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 5

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