How much data is the average IBM i site changing on a daily basis? And what would it look like in the real world? Those are the questions posed by Maxava’s Simon O’Sullivan in an intriguing new blog post on the HA specialist’s website. O’Sullivan points out that a single transaction can be made up […]
IBM i user groups urged to apply for cash grants
International HA specialist Maxava is once again giving $50,000 away to IBM i-related user groups. The firm’s Maxava iFoundation announced the new funding pool today to help user groups to “grow and strengthen within the IBM i community”. Now in its fifth year, its latest round of funding follows a record year of cash granted […]
New product round-up: IFS gets multi-threaded replication and better monitoring
As previewed exclusively by PowerWire back in November last year, Maxava has released a new version of Maxava HA with fully dynamic multi-threaded IFS replication. Replication speeds have long been an Achilles heel for some real-time solutions that have only been able to run IBM i IFS replication in a single-thread mode or with very […]
Multi-threaded replication speeds IFS backups
Maxava is gearing up to introduce multi-threaded IFS replication to help firms back up their ever-increasing mountains of data faster. According to the HA specialist, IBM i replication solutions have generally only been able to run IFS replication in single-threaded mode until now. This, in effect, drip-feeds data replication – which can be a problem […]
Soltis & Co keep the faith with iBelieve Tour
You’ll be able to catch some of the biggest names in the Power i industry around Europe in November. Dr Frank Soltis, father of the AS/400, Steve Will, IBM’s head of Power Systems and Trevor Perry, leading evangelist for the platform, all feature on this year’s iBelieve Common Europe Tour. The iBelieve roadshow will visit […]