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Per Alex Woodie at IT Jungle:

Unveiled last month, Xerox Cloud Services enables small and midsized businesses to run their IBM i, AIX, Windows, and Linux applications on servers owned and managed by Xerox and its IT services arm, formerly called ACS. The $21 billion IT services and printing giant is also allowing partners to white label the cloud offering to their own clients.

Good detail here, including Xerox’s belief that there’s a market place for more robust systems than just Intel in the cloud; other companies that provide IBM i cloud services; and why IBM itself hasn’t… Continue reading →

Steve Pitcher is on a one-man campaign to bring all of IBM’s Collaborative Solutions to the IBM i platform. To that end, he’s asking as many people as possible to post the following plea on their Web sites and to register their support for bringing these products to IBM i.

Here’s Steve’s pitch. If you’re an IBM i enthusiast (and I think you know who are), read the following and go to Steve’s Web site if you agree with Steve’s pitch.

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Mochasoft announced today that it is releasing version 2.0 of its Mocha TN5250 emulator for Windows 7.0. They twittered the announcement (@Mochasoft), but there’s no easily found press release on their Web site. The new release was also tweeted as a major bug fixing update.

This follows on the heels of the company releasing Mocha TN5250 for Mac OS X and Mocha TN5250 v1.9 for iPhone/iPad in January.

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Steve Will, the Chief Architect for IBM i, released some refreshed IBM i sales presentation slides that can be viewed (and downloaded) here. There are a lot of nice customer stories here as well as a lot of good informational … Continue reading →

Agan, from Tim Prickett Morgan at IT Jungle this morning: “Last week, in announcement letter 312-020, IBM pulled the plug on a pretty generous IBM i discount deal, and it is not clear how much the removal of this deal … Continue reading →

Tim Prickett Morgan at IT Jungle has the latest on some Power Systems rebates.

Why does IBM love to offer rebates instead of reducing their prices on these machines, according to Tim:

“IBM loves rebates because… Continue reading →

The latest version of Dan Riehl’s SecureMyi Security Newsletter is now available. Dan puts out this newsletter every few weeks, if you want to subscribe.

This issue has… Continue reading →

From Tim Prickett-Morgan at IT Jungle:

Ian Jarman, manager of Power Systems Software at IBM “…said that Big Blue was going to deliver something for IBM i that all virtualized operating systems in the 21st century need: live migration of virtual machines or logical partitions from one physical server to another.”

Jarman said the Technology Refresh program, which allows the company to slip new technology and support for new platforms into the hardware “…without requiring the company to do a complete rebuild of the system as a dot release….was going to be used to bring live partition mobility, Big Blue’s term for one kind of live migration, to Power Systems machines.”

About time. Get the complete story here.

Wonder what this is going to do to the IBM i high availability market?

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From a guest post by Michelle August on Midrange.com, the CAAC is looking for new members. The CAAC serves as the liaison between the community member and IBM [for the IBM i platform]. This has been a very successful partnership … Continue reading →

On Twitter, Steve Will, Chief Architect for the IBM i operating system, is reporting that RPG OA PTFs are available right now, rather than the February 14th date previously announced. Check the RPG Open Access PTFs area of the developerWorks Web site … Continue reading →