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Enterprise AI Agents Need Authority Maps Before They Get More Tools

Gleb Tsipursky, PhD, CEO of Disaster Avoidance Experts, draws on lessons from the Hugging Face incident as he shares five questions an authority map should be able to answer about AI agents

2026 Rising Stars Nominations Are Now Open

The TechChannel initiative recognizes those who are new to their platform but are already making an impact

Why Cloud-Native Site Reliability Engineering Is Becoming a Mainframe Skill

As transaction paths become more complex, Scott Petry of PwC US stresses the increasing importance of automation, observability, incident management and more

August TechPulse Recap: Modernization—The Project That Never Ends

For August, TechPulse asked IBM Power professionals about their approach to modernization—how they’re pacing it, where AI tools fit in, what’s actually driving the work and how legacy IBM i forms and documents factor into the picture. Thirteen respondents weighed in, and the results suggest a community that’s largely moved past crisis-mode modernization, even as […]

Clearing Up IBM Technologists’ Biggest Misconceptions About AWS (and Vice Versa)

James Roarty, chief cloud officer at Lightedge, has seen things from both sides, explaining how he went from being 'all in on cloud' to a more nuanced view

The Stability Trap: Don’t Let Complacency Turn Small Problems into Big Shutdowns

IBM i’s reliability is legendary. But that same stability can breed complacency, and small, overlooked issues can quietly grow into costly outages. Fortra’s latest Ask the Experts episode tackles this head-on: “The Stability Trap: Don’t Let Complacency Turn Small Problems into Big Shutdowns.” Three seasoned IBM i practitioners walk through the operational areas where risk […]

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Use NOT FENCED UDFs for Better Db2 for i Performance

Dawn May explains why it's important to understand your options beyond the "slow and safe" default

July TechPulse Recap: Hybrid Cloud

For July, TechPulse surveyed IBM Power professionals on how they’re distributing workloads across on-premises and cloud infrastructure, where their biggest hybrid cloud headaches lie and whether their IBM i shops could keep printing critical forms and labels if the internet went down—among other questions. The sample size of eight respondents was smaller than TechPulse’s recent […]

Celebrating the Power 11 Family’s New Addition

Rob McNelly provides details on the recent S1112 announcement and reflects on his upcoming writing/blogging anniversary

Reactive to Proactive: A More Confident Approach to IBM i Monitoring

Businesses trust IBM i to support the applications and workflows that process their invoices, operate their warehouses, dispatch their shipments, and most important of all, serve their customers. IBM i is the high point for reliability for any business application, but even the most reliable environments need visibility to be properly secured, maintained, and monitored. […]

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