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Neil Tardy

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Neil Tardy is a contributing writer to TechChannel.

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IBM watsonx AI Solutions Driving Data Value

Neil Tardy

July 16, 2024

IBM executives highlight IBM Data Gate for watsonx, IBM watsonx Code Assistant for Z and watsonx Code Assistant for Enterprise Java Applications—and how they’re driving revenue and productivity

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AI on IBM i: A POWERUp Roundtable

Neil Tardy

July 3, 2024

Highlights from a recent AI roundtable featuring IBM i experts Charlie Guarino, Jesse Gorzinski, Alex Roytman and Thomas DeCorte

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Cybersecurity in the Quantum Age

Neil Tardy

June 5, 2024

IBM’s Anne Dames and NIST’s Andrew Regenscheid offer key cybersecurity considerations as the quantum computing era approaches

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Redefining Digital Transformation

Neil Tardy

January 30, 2024

Perhaps the biggest challenge with digital transformation lies in understanding where the transformation occurs. Digital transformation doesn’t begin or end by offloading workloads or moving core systems to the cloud. It doesn’t come about through the development a cool customer-facing app. Paralleling its philosophical forerunner, DevOps, the process of digital transformation begins by looking inward. […]

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IBM’s watsonx Day 2 Focuses on AI Governance

Neil Tardy

January 26, 2024

Speakers at the virtual event emphasized the need to use AI responsibly and explained how AI can derive additional value from data

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Paul Tuohy Reflects on His Career on IBM i

Neil Tardy

October 31, 2023

Through his years of podcasting for TechChannel, Paul Tuohy always set aside a few moments at the close of his interviews. He wanted his iTalk guests—people who devoted their careers in some fashion to the IBM i platform—to share something personal about their lives, their families, their hobbies or any little thing outside of work. […]

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Building a Digital-First Strategy With IBM i

Neil Tardy

June 13, 2023

When it comes to modernizing IBM i environments, often the biggest challenges aren’t technical. Many enterprises simply don’t know where to begin. Puneet Kohli sees it all the time. As president of application modernization at Rocket Software, Kohli is charged with helping clients navigate the challenges and recognize that IBM i is well-suited to help […]

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Closing the Mainframe Information Gap Through Education

Neil Tardy

January 25, 2023

If you’re reading this, you likely don’t need to be told that a mainframe career is very rewarding. The pay is excellent, the opportunity to work with world-class technology is exciting and the profession is filled with supportive people who are passionate about the platform. Dr. Cameron Seay, an adjunct professor at East Carolina University […]

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Java at 25: Celebrating Milestones, Mainframe Interoperability and More

Neil Tardy

November 15, 2022

It can be said that one sign of a healthy long-term relationship is that there’s still room for small, pleasant surprises. Such is the case with the IBM mainframe and Java. Even though Java’s availability on the mainframe predates the introduction of z/Architecture, IBM’s Skyla Loomis continues to encounter application developers who don’t realize that […]

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A New Resource for Open-Source Communities

Neil Tardy

November 7, 2022

It’s estimated that around 70% of the world’s Fortune 500 companies use IBM mainframes. Of course this comes as no surprise to mainframers who have long been exposed to these factoids. But for the mainframe to continue to grow—and specifically, to attract the next generation of technologists to the platform—its presence must expand beyond the […]