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Register for the ‘How Personal Experiences Shape Corporate Inclusion’ Webinar

TechChannel

April 1, 2021

Join us on April 28, 2021 at 11:00 CST // 12:00 EST for “How Personal Experiences Shape Corporate Inclusion”—the second webinar of the Making Our Strong Community, Stronger collaborative initiative on diversity, equity and inclusion. This collaborative initiative is inspired by a question to mainframe leaders about diversity: “What are you doing about it?” Hear […]

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Cloud POS Adoption Skyrockets in Retail Equipped With AI-Based Capabilities

Saloni Walimbe

April 1, 2021

Until recently, the go-to solution for most brick and mortar retail stores to save their point-of-sale (POS) data, including product price lists and transaction records, was local platforms. These include a range of solutions, from on-premises PCs or servers to larger service provider network servers. However, many retailers have been making a shift towards online […]

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Marketing Mainframes: A Q&A With Maemalynn Meanor

Richard Berman

March 31, 2021

If you know anything about Zowe, the open-source mainframe initiative spearheaded by the Open Mainframe Project, it’s probably because of Maemalynn Meanor, senior PR and marketing manager, The Linux Foundation. Meanor has been managing Zowe communications since day one and has been helping share the open mainframe story to mainframers, open-source enthusiasts, and the rest […]

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Mainframes and Cloud Computing

Trevor Eddolls

March 29, 2021

We all know what mainframes are—the best and most secure, scalable, and available computing platform—but what exactly is the cloud? Cloud computing started off as design idea on diagrams for unspecified routing and hardware, that the viewer didn’t need to worry about. The important parts of the diagram were around the cloud. More recently, the […]

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Why Having a Backup and Recovery Plan Improves IBM i Vitality

Jennifer Goforth Gregory

March 26, 2021

Monitoring the vitality of your IBM i system is a cornerstone of keeping your business running 24-7. A key component of IBM i’s vitality includes recovering quickly after a disaster with the least amount of disruption to your customers and revenue streams. Debbie Saugen has heard all the excuses for why a company isn’t prioritizing […]

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Exploiting IBM i in a Hybrid Cloud Enterprise Architecture

Dava Stewart

March 26, 2021

Dominick Pagnotta’s career has come full circle. He began working in IT “well before Windows and Linux,” he says, and first developed applications on AS/400, or even its predecessors. He watched as technology evolved, but now, as CIO of Rochester Drug Cooperative, he oversees new employees developing applications using modern languages on IBM i. Learn how […]

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COBOL: What’s XML Got to Do With IT?

Reg Harbeck

March 24, 2021

When I first encountered the works of Thomas Aquinas, which I’m embarrassed to say wasn’t until the beginning of my Master’s degree, commenced 29 years after I completed my bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, the first thing I thought was, “This could be put into XML!” Little did I know that XML was a direct […]

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Teaching Enterprise Technology Skills With a Bootcamp Model

Dava Stewart

March 23, 2021

John Thompson, CEO, Mobile Collaborative Education Consulting (MCEC), and Cameron Seay, Ph.D. adjunct instructor at East Carolina University, appear to have very different careers at first glance. Thompson is a retired IBM senior manager and Tennessee State University (TSU) brought his company on board to leverage his expertise in the technology sector and the continually […]

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Standing Pat Is No Longer an Option With the HMC

Rob McNelly

March 19, 2021

New POWER9 servers running new firmware won't work with your old HMC. Rob McNelly explains why, and provides some upgrade options.

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Extend the IBM i Administration Runtime Expert With Custom Plug-ins

Dawn May

March 18, 2021

Creating custom plug-ins for Administration Runtime Expert extends functionality

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