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Exploring DevOps Process and Tools

Joseph Gulla

June 19, 2017

In last week’s post, “Exploring Enterprise DevOps,” I wrote that it’s often useful to look at DevOps solutions that IT companies are promoting and intuit the problems that they are addressing. I listed four main areas centered on modernization, testing, speed, risk and language. These include: Discover, understand and analyze enterprise application logic to modernize […]

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John Ehrman on the Value of Assembler

Reg Harbeck

June 19, 2017

Reg Harbeck talks with John Ehrman on his 50th anniversary as a SHARE volunteer about his path to the mainframe and his Assembler expertise. Listen to the interview via the orange play button or read the transcript below. Reg Harbeck: Hi, I'm Reg Harbeck and I'm here at SHARE in San Jose with Dr. John […]

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Take a Holistic View

June 19, 2017

If your enterprise system has gotten more complex over the last few years, with new applications and users, it may be time to revisit your hardware configuration to optimize performance. Companies benefit when they practice taking a holistic view of enterprise systems every two years or so, says Jaqui Lynch, a solutions architect and independent […]

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Let’s Learn About Ublu

Jesse Gorzinski

June 16, 2017

Have you heard about Ublu? It’s a programming language created specifically for IBM i tasks.

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Understanding and Tuning CPU Throughput

Mark J. Ray

June 14, 2017

Few topics related to AIX performance analysis and tuning are more misunderstood than CPU throughput: how databases, applications, middleware and utilities use CPUs in an IBM Power Systems environment. What follows is a basic primer on determining CPU throughput and usage in your AIX systems. By combining this knowledge with performance statistics, you can tune […]

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Promoting IBM i—Triggering Events

Steve Will

June 13, 2017

Before a company launches a platform evaluation, there are often signs, which, if you recognize them, would allow you some time to prepare.

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Smart Buildings Need Smart Grid’s Demand-Side Management to Ensure Sustainability

K.S. Ram Mohan

June 13, 2017

Imagine a city with smart buildings and smart technologies that leverage cloud-enabled, automated metering infrastructure (AMI) platforms deployed by utilities to not only remotely monitor and optimize the building’s energy usage, but also connect with the utility’s backend systems for cost-effective procurement of electricity. This is starting to happen to enable cities to not only […]

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Exploring Enterprise DevOps

Joseph Gulla

June 12, 2017

This week, I am starting a two-part series on enterprise DevOps. Let me begin with the term enterprise then I’ll move on to DevOps. Enterprise Meant Mainframe To many of us, enterprise means mainframe. It wasn’t always that way but when mainframes became an out-of-favor platform in the 1990s, we started using the more indirect […]

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Changing Development and Operating Ideas in IT

Joseph Gulla

June 5, 2017

This week, I’ll finish up this three-part series by exploring application software development and groups that run the software within a company. This area of IT has undergone a significant amount of growth and change over the years due to the enormous success of computer use in business. The Way It Was Not long ago, […]

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David Cutaia

June 5, 2017

  Name: David Cutaia Title: Domino and IBM i system adminstrator, RPG programmer Company Name: Brown & Bigelow Inc. Company’s Function: Promotional material distributor HQ: St. Paul, Minnesota Years in IT: 27 The biggest challenge our data center is facing today is keeping up with the never-ending changes to technology and infrastructure. The next big […]

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