At a recent IBM i event, a discussion on cloud for IBM i was a divisive topic. Whilst we have a great platform with IBM i, to ensure it’s longevity and avoid the ‘legacy’ tag, it’s important to understand how IBM i can offer cloud and cloud-like capability and economics. In our latest blog, we […]
A screen a story – Db2 Symmetric Multiprocessing part II
The sayings are “practice what you preach” or the more down to earth expression “eat you own dogfood”. Eating your own dog food is a phrase that refers to the internal use of a company’s own products or services in its day-to-day operations. So over the years I have been advising customers to purchase a […]
ActiveMQ
I’ve got a little home project that I’ve been looking at for a while. In this article, I’ll prepare our IBM i for that project. It will involve some IoT devices sending data to the IBM i. To receive that information the IBM i, will be using the Open Source package ActiveMQ. What is ActiveMQ? […]
Why IBM i continues to deliver excellent ROI for manufacturing and distribution
IBM technology has been a key part of enterprise IT since the 1980s with platforms such as AS/400, iSeries, System i and IBM Power Systems and operating systems such as OS/400, i5/OS and IBM i. This technology is prized for its superior performance, stability and dependability. In addition to performance benefits, it has always offered […]
Power10 for the masses is finally here!
In June, IBM announced the replacement for the popular 1, 2 and 4 socket Power servers which make up the mainstay of the Power installed base. If you missed it, Northdoor have covered the highlights in performance, security and scalability in our latest blog. With significant CPW improvement per core – such as 2.8X […]
A screen a story – Db2 Symmetric Multiprocessing
Part of the announcement of IBM i 7.5 was a change in what is entitled as part of the base operating system with IBM i. If you want a complete list of the Price Change(s): Price Decrease on Selected IBM i Sofware Products please have a look at the spreadsheet which is available for download […]
An Advanced Job Scheduler
In this article, I’ll be going back to good old green screen, well for some parts of this article! Nested in the IBM i 7.5 OS announcements made by IBM in May 2022, was the statement that half a dozen or so licensed programs will now be included within the cost of the OS. Great […]
It’s official – IBM have now launched their Power10 Scale out range!
Whilst IBM’s Enterprise range did come out back in September 2021, that provided for the high-end Power clients only. With this release of low and mid-range servers, the capability of Power10 is made available to everyone. In a nutshell, the key benefits of Power10 are; Enhanced Security – Power10 includes 4 Crypto engines per core, […]
Bring Power to the cloud with Northdoor and Skytap
For organisations that run their x86 workloads on Azure, Skytap offers the ability to bring IBM Power workloads into the same cloud, co-located for low latency and high performance. With your AIX, IBM i and Linux on Power workloads in Azure, you benefit from flexible capacity and pricing with no need to refactor or re-write […]
An Ansible Environment Setup
Firstly, thank-you to all those who attended my Ansible workshop and presentation of Visual Studio Code at the i-UG conference at Northampton in June. It was great to be back presenting and meeting up with friends. This article is related to this event. The Power servers for the event, were kindly provided by Rowton IT […]
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