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Pivoting to an IBM i Career: Don’t Blend In, Stand Out

This transcript is lightly edited for clarity. Charlie Guarino: Hi everybody. This is Charlie Guarino. Welcome to yet another edition of TechTalk SMB. Today I am meeting with Rochelle Petty. Rochelle works in the role of application support and development at Everbrite, a company located in Greenfield, Wisconsin, and her platform is primarily—or exclusively, I […]

Vanguard Compliance Manager with Vanguard Aggregation & Delivery

Vanguard Compliance Manager (VCM) for RACF, ACF2, and TSS is an automated vulnerability assessment solution. VCM assists organizations in passing Security Readiness Reviews (SRR) for z/OS mainframe environments.  VCM eases the auditing burden of an SRR by automating the step-by-step procedures. VCM collects the required information, analyzes the system software installation and configuration accordingly, and […]

The Power of Containers on the Mainframe

Acronyms drive me crazy—and having worked more than 30 years for a company that made its living on acronyms…you can understand why. Enter: zCX, or IBM z/OS Container Extensions. It was released for z/OS 2.4 and provides Docker Swarm as support for Docker containers and cluster management. zCX is the vehicle that allows your IBM […]

Eddy Ciliendo on Object Storage and the Mainframe

Reg Harbeck: Hi, I’m Reg Harbeck and today I am here with Eddy Ciliendo, who is the chief strategy officer at Model9. Welcome, Eddy. Eddy Ciliendo: Hey Reg, glad to be here.   Reg: So I’d like to start by just kind of getting a sense—you’ve got a really interesting background that involves a lot […]

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Hybrid Cloud: The Best of Both Worlds

UNICOM Global’s Neil Evans and Rocket Software’s Phil Buckellew discuss why hybrid cloud is on the rise in the post-pandemic world—and how to get the most out of your hybrid cloud strategy

How to Build a Successful Hybrid Cloud Strategy

Rocket Software’s Phil Buckellew on 3 factors to consider when building a hybrid cloud strategy, and UNICOM Global’s Neil Evans on why hybrid cloud is the de facto post-pandemic model

TechChannel Unveils Interactive Content Platform

What you need to know about TechChannel’s new content platform and partner offerings

iChime: A Virtual IBM i Community

How a casual Zoom meetup turned into a vibrant virtual community fostering IBM i education and connection across the globe

Recognizing TechChannel’s 2023 IBM Champions

The IBM Champions of TechChannel offer invaluable insights and guidance that have shaped the platform into a hub for credible, expert IT content

Hanging Out (Virtually) with IBM Champions, Upgrading an Older HMC and More

Rob McNelly explains how he recently updated an older HMC with the help of IBM Support and gives a reminder about technical debt

The Path to an IBM i Career: Lessons from TechChannel’s Rising Stars

imPower Technologies’ founders Jim Buck and Michelle Lyons were delighted to see several of their past students on TechChannel’s list of 2022 Power Systems Rising Stars. It was less about their courses being mentioned and more about seeing young developers taking lead roles in the community at large. “We are so proud of these talented […]

Scott Klement on REST APIs, DevOps and CICD

Note: This podcast transcript is lightly edited for clarity. Paul Tuohy: Welcome to another iTalk Business with Tuohy. I was about to say it’s great to be joined by an old friend, but when I say old friend, I think just old in that we’ve known each other for awhile. Because you’re nowhere near as […]

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HMC, BMC, VMI, eBMC, FSP, Oh My!

Jaqui Lynch dispels confusion around HMCs, BMCs, Power10 VMI and more—and shares useful commands

DevOps and Hybrid Cloud: A Q+A With Rosalind Radcliffe

Much of Rosalind Radcliffe’s career has been spent ensuring DevOps can be cross platform and cross enterprise, including zSystems as part of hybrid cloud. Most recently, Radcliffe, IBM Fellow and CIO DevSecOps CTO, moved to the client side in the IBM CIO organization, a customer of the DevSecOps products. The IBM CIO’s office is responsible […]

Visualize System Monitor Data for IBM i

My blog Getting Started with IBM i Navigator System Monitors, Revisited explained how to set up system monitors in Navigator for i. Once you have system monitors up and running, you will want to look at the monitor data on a regular basis. There are three options:  Visualize Monitor Data, Visualize Monitor Data (new tab) […]

Building Computing Skills Through the IBM zStudent Contest

Last year, more than 25,000 contestants participated in the 2022 IBM zStudent Contest, designed to teach participants computing skills and help them gain an edge in the enterprise computing industry. This year’s contest centered on sustainable energy, guiding participants through challenges to collect battery parts for an electric vehicle. Students learn and use JCL, z/OS, […]

Women of COBOL Celebrates International Women’s Day

Since 2021, the Women of COBOL video series has been uncovering and overcoming unconscious biases about COBOL and women in technology. What inspired the series? Moderator Misty Decker, director of worldwide AMC product marketing at OpenText (formerly Micro Focus), says, “I have been in the mainframe ecosystem for 30 years now. Over the years, I’ve […]

IBM and Cohesity Collaborate to Offer New Security Solution

On March 2, IBM announced that it is partnering with Cohesity to offer a new Storage Defender solution that includes IBM Storage Protect, IBM Storage FlashSystems, IBM Storage Fusion, and Cohesity DataProtect. IBM Storage Defender uses AI and event monitoring to combat the impacts of breaches and cyberattacks as security risks rise in today’s data-driven […]

Feet of Iron, Heads of Clay: The Counterintuitive Persistence of Legacy Technology

COBOL and the IBM mainframe are nerds. I’ll explain shortly, but first… The term “feet of clay” has become a common part of our language, referring to leaders, organizations and initiatives that have unreliable foundational traits despite the best and most visionary of intentions. Of course, the subtle implications often include that those very attractive […]

A Deep Dive Into Deep Fakes With Dr. Ilke Demir

Charlie Guarino: Hi everybody. This is Charlie Guarino. Welcome to another edition of TechTalk SMB. I’m really thrilled to have join me somebody that I have been reading so much about and have watched so many videos on, and it’s a real delight to have her here. I’m talking about Dr. Ilke Demir, and let me […]

Teaching the New Class of Mainframe Architects

For Bobby Houston, hybrid cloud architect at Kyndryl, the best part about the mainframe is the people. Pat Stanard, Houston’s mentor and chief mainframe architect at Kyndryl, is one of those people. Houston and Stanard met through Aspiring Architects, a program started by Stanard that prepares participants for careers in mainframe architecture. Bobby went through […]

Getting Started with IBM i Navigator System Monitors, Revisited

Dawn May explains how to set up system monitors in Navigator for i

Networking, Hanging NIM Operations and AIX Quirks

Rob McNelly covers how to troubleshoot common NIM issues and AIX tips and tricks

The Staying Power of IBM i: Ask ChatGPT, IBM i Users or IBM

As I mentioned in my last post, IBM i celebrates 35 years in 2023. That’s 35 years of providing an integrated platform which reliably runs businesses of all sizes—and doing it in a way that not only satisfies our customers, but it does it so well that a vast majority of our IBM i users […]

IBM Announces 2023 IBM Power Strategy

Today, IBM announced several updates to IBM Power, as well as its 2023 strategy for IBM Power clients and partners. Ken King, general manager of IBM Power, says, “It is well known but worth reiterating that IBM Power is designed for mission-critical workloads that require superior availability, reliability, security and performance. In other words, it’s […]