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A screen a story –  Db2 Symmetric Multiprocessing part II

September 6, 2022 by Rudi van Helvoirt Leave a Comment

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

September 4, 2022 by Andy Youens Leave a Comment

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

September 4, 2022 by Staff Reporter Leave a Comment

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! 

August 2, 2022 by Tom Richards Leave a Comment

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

August 2, 2022 by Rudi van Helvoirt Leave a Comment

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

August 2, 2022 by Andy Youens 4 Comments

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!

July 12, 2022 by Tom Richards 1 Comment

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

July 5, 2022 by Staff Reporter 2 Comments

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

July 5, 2022 by Andy Youens 1 Comment

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 […]

A screen a story – Enabling SSL/TLS for IBM Navigator for i

June 23, 2022 by Rudi van Helvoirt Leave a Comment

In today’s world there is a lot of emphasis on IT security. Not strange when the word “Hack” is a word you often hear or read when following the daily news. We all know that there is no better security level possible than security implemented at the source level. I like bringing examples to life […]

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