Christian Jacobi, Chief Architect for IBM Z Processors, on the New IBM Telum Chip
November 2, 2021
IBM’s new Telum chip fulfills clients’ business imperatives with a new cache infrastructure, optimized core and the ability to embed AI directly into enterprise workloads. First announced at the annual Hot Chips conference, this innovative processor chip enables IBM clients to leverage AI technologies and grow their workloads. Christian Jacobi, Distinguished Engineer and Chief Architect […]
VideoIBM Champion Rob McNelly on the New AIX 7.3 Announcement
October 29, 2021
AIX 7.3 was announced on October 19, 2021. Get the details from Rob McNelly in this video.
ArticlesAIX 7.3 Leverages Power10 Processor to Support Customers’ Hybrid Multicloud and AI Endeavors
October 19, 2021
The new AIX 7.3 release brings customers new ways to integrate their mission critical infrastructure with new and enhanced capabilities. IBM designed AIX 7.3 in response to feedback from customers, particularly around extracting business value from data and supporting their hybrid multicloud strategies. Its new features take advantage of the unique capabilities of the Power10 […]
ArticlesBringing Choice, Consistency and Protection to Hybrid Cloud Strategies
October 13, 2021
Hybrid cloud has quickly grown in popularity, but with this extensive growth it’s more important than ever for organizations to develop strategies that address cost control, IT complexity, cybersecurity threats and data corruption. When developing a hybrid cloud strategy, notes Scott Baker, VP, Storage Product Marketing for IBM, it’s important for organizations to define what […]
ArticlesLatest IBM Storage Announcements Address Key Hybrid Cloud Pain Points for Clients
October 12, 2021
As hybrid cloud environments grow in popularity, organizations must develop strategies that address increasing IT complexity, public cloud costs, cyberattack threats and other data destructive events. Today, IBM in announcing new capabilities and integrations designed to mitigate these pain points—helping organizations reduce IT complexity, deploy cost-effective solutions and improve cyberresilience across hybrid cloud environments. These […]
Carol Woodbury on Security Strategies and Best Practices
October 4, 2021
Charlie Guarino: Hi everybody. This is Charlie Guarino. Welcome to another edition of TechTalk SMB. I am so happy today to sit down and have a nice chat with the former IBM i security architect of IBM i and the current co-founder of DXR Security, a company that helps organizations change their IBM i security one […]
ArticlesThe Cost of Enterprise Downtime
September 30, 2021
Enterprise downtime is now more expensive than ever: Some 44% of firms indicate that hourly downtime costs exceed $1 million to over $5 million, exclusive of any legal fees, fines or penalties. Additionally, 91% organizations said a single hour of downtime that takes mission-critical server hardware and applications offline, averages over $300,000 due to lost […]
ArticlesHow Much Does a Data Breach Cost?
September 21, 2021
For the past 16 years, IBM has published research by the Ponemon Institute in the annual “Cost of a Data Breach Report.” Its 17th report was published at the end of July this year, and perhaps the biggest finding was that 2020 had the highest average cost for a data breach in 17 years. The cost […]
ArticlesRandom and ‘Almost Random’ Numbers on z/OS
September 17, 2021
Random numbers can come in handy. They can be used to create a unique filename, generate a random new password, or randomly select a record. The good news is that we can obtain random numbers on z/OS. Well, at least some of them are random. COBOL and RANDOM A quick look at the IBM Enterprise […]
ArticlesOf Wildcards, Regular Expressions and Mainframe Security
September 14, 2021
As Sigmund Freud might say if he were alive today, “Sometimes, a dash is just a dash.” Of course, if he did, he’d likely be talking about one of the two wildcard characters that do all the heavy lifting in CA ACF2. That’s right: ACF2 only has two wildcard characters—or actually, fewer than two: the […]