Informing the IBM Community

Author: Staff Reporter

  • The 2019 Common Europe Congress

    The 2019 Common Europe Congress adds IBM experts to agenda including the latest announcements and education on OS 7.4 and Db2 Mirror; Luxembourg, Europe; 20 May 2019.  The Common Europe Congress (CEC), a technical association event centered around IBM i technology, has newly added more world-known IBM experts to their annual Congress agenda.  Steve Will,…

  • IBM i Security Best Practices – Presented by Jeff Uehling

      Security best practices and regulatory compliance are a constantly moving target. In this webinar, Syncsort’s Product Management Director for Security Solutions, Jeff Uehling, shares what he’s learned over the past 30 years regarding IBM i security best practices. Key topics include: Why you need to run at security level 50 – and the exposures…

  • Raz-Lee Security Announces ICAP Client for iSecurity Anti-Virus

    iSecurity Anti-Virus has been enhanced to support the new ICAP Client. With this solution, the actual virus scanning is performed outside the IBM i, by organizational servers. This solution is important for organizations with multiple LPARs (logical partitions), especially if these LPARs are using parts of a processing unit. ICAP, the Internet Content Adaptation Protocol…

  • Raz-Lee Security Announces iSecurity Safe-Update

    Raz-Lee Security Announces iSecurity Safe-Update: Regulate the Use of File Editors in IBM i Production Environments. Nanuet, New York – April 4, 2019 – Raz-Lee Security Inc announces the release of iSecurity Safe-Update, the solution that protects production environments against updates made by unauthorized programs such as file editors or the interactive Start SQL (STRSQL)…

  • i-UG’s International i-Power is back and this time it’s bigger than ever!

    International i-Power is returning to Milton Keynes on the 11th & 12th June and this year the agenda is the largest it has ever been! Continuing with the great success in 2018 the System i-Developers (SiD for short) team are returning this year to deliver lectures to developers who work on IBMi and POWER systems.…

  • Community Matters

    Communities or User Groups are a great source of education as well as networking opportunities with experts and your fellow peers, if you are not part of one you should be, here’s an example why. I attended a User Group meeting organised by i-UG (UK) in February and was treated to some great sessions, one…

  • 48 Hours in POWER

    There is a great Travel Guide to IT Transformation that IBM Power Systems are presenting where you can virtual travel around the globe and visit companies / organisations that are employing POWER Systems to deliver technology solutions that are quite honestly ‘eye opening’, and at the end of each short story there are links to…

  • IBM i: The Most Amazing IBM Product We Have Heard Of

    Today I read an article in eweek about IBM i from a reporter who had attended the IBM Think 2019 conference in San Francisco, encountered IBM i for the first time and thought he had stepped into an alternative universe. It was a nice article to read because it was from an ‘outsider’ or to…

  • Fifth Annual IT Marketplace Survey Reveals Ongoing Reliance on IBM i to Support Critical Business Needs

    HelpSystems announced today that its fifth annual IBM i Marketplace Survey Results reveal not only that the IBM i platform continues to be a top choice for IT professionals, but also that investment in the platform is growing. More than 750 IT professionals from around the world participated in the annual survey, which has become…

  • A10 NETWORKS THUNDER® CONVERGENT FIREWALL SELECTED FOR 5G NETWORK DEPLOYMENT

    A10 Networks Thunder® Convergent Firewall selected for 5G network deployment by major Japanese mobile carrier Theale, UK. – 9th January, 2019: A10 Networks (NYSE: ATEN), a leading provider of intelligent and automated cybersecurity solutions, today announced a major Japanese mobile carrier has selected the A10 Thunder® Convergent Firewall (CFW) Gi/SGi firewall solution for its 5G production network, to support…

  • Bring simplicity and affordability to HA with PowerHA for IBM i

    System stability is one of the main reasons that IBM i continues to be a force in the market almost 30 years after the launch of the AS/400. Over the years, many anecdotes have circulated about i machines continuing to support the core business despite floods, fires or even being walled up during data centre…

  • IBM i: Reflections on Mirroring

    Every organisation running its core business on IBM i, regardless of size, must be able to keep its system and business application up and running during planned and unplanned outages, caused by events like application failure, data corruption, power outage or extreme weather events. Depending on the criticality and size of the business, some organisations are…