Monthly Archives: May 2012

Interesting blog post this morning from Waleed Youssef on IBM’s Expert Integrated Systems blog comparing IBM’s new PureSystems box with the historical AS/400 systems IBM produced in the late 1980s and in the 1990s. Besides the Rochester connection, there’s a lot of … Continue reading →

In what I’d expect to see across the industry, Managed Hosting News (Hostway) is reporting that IBM is imposing additional restrictions on the use of BYOD machines in their workplace. This harkens back to one of my previous posts about … Continue reading →

IT Jungle just published my latest tech tip on solving NetServer access problem. You may have seen this issue where all of a sudden, a user loses their connection to an IBM i NetServer file share and cannot get it back. This tip … Continue reading →

If you’re using a UPS to power critical equipment or to transition power to a generator during a power outage, think about the life span of the capacitors used inside that system. Besides batteries, a large-scale UPS also uses capacitor … Continue reading →

This came up in a Twitter feed the other day so I’d thought I’d reiterate it here. At the iBelieve event, IBM has been quoted as saying that it is projecting support for IBM i past the year 2020. Support … Continue reading →

CIO Magazine has an article this week about the security challenges being posed by companies embracing Bring Your Own Device policies (BYOD). Not to sound dense, but no one’s thought about this before??? The funny thing is I’m thinking they … Continue reading →

This is the stuff that makes me crazy. From Tim Prickett Morgan at IT Jungle. To put it bluntly, IBM’s pricing on the new PowerLinux 7R2 rack-based server, which is only certified to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux or SUSE … Continue reading →

From Jerome Hughes, if you want to find all kinds of images for IBM i for your next presenation, including the round blue “IBM i for business” logo and a whole treaure trove of other IBM i icons, do the … Continue reading →

IT Jungle and other publications are still sifting through some of the IBM i and and Power systems announcements made on April 24th. Tim Prickett Morgan discovered that starting July 10th, IBM will start adding shipping and handling charges to … Continue reading →

On Tuesday, May 15, 2012, I gave a presentation to the Omni User group on Future Directions for the IBM i. I had a blast and the presentation went over very well. Special thanks to Lorraine Morgan, Bill Parks, Jerome … Continue reading →