The Cost of a Data Breach Reaches an All-Time High of $4.45 Million
September 26, 2023
MGM Resorts was the latest victim of a social engineering hack that brought the casino chain to its knees. The breach happened last week when hackers obtained a password by posing as an employee of the Las Vegas resort chain. According to published reports on TechCrunch and Bloomberg, the attack crippled MGM’s hotel guest services […]
ArticlesWhat’s Up With Merlin? An Update From the CTO
September 21, 2023
In May 2022, along with the announcement of IBM i 7.5, we rolled out a new application development and modernization solution called IBM i Modernization Engine for Lifecycle Integration, or what we call Merlin for short. Merlin is an integrated set of tools that run in Red Hat OpenShift containers. The first set of tools […]
ArticlesA Student’s Journey Into Artificial Intelligence | Part 2: Winter Ends
September 21, 2023
In part two of this series, Mark Ray explores the end of the First AI Winter and the technological developments of the ‘80s and ‘90s
E-BooksHarness the Power of AI and IBM i Modernization
September 18, 2023
IBM's Jason McGee and Rocket Software's Puneet Kohli explain how AI is changing the way we think about modernization—and break down misconceptions about modernization on IBM i
ArticlesIBM Support Insights: Infrastructure Management Simplified
September 7, 2023
IBM Support Insights provides a wealth of critical information to make admins' jobs easier
Upcoming COMMON Events for Fall 2023
September 5, 2023
Summer is generally a quiet time for COMMON, but you can expect things to get busy again in the fall. And this year, there are some very exciting events on the schedule. IT Leadership Summit First, there will be a virtual IT Leadership Summit on September 7. The topic is “Generative AI and Security for […]
PodcastsShared Lives, Shared Careers…But Separate Offices
September 1, 2023
This transcript is lightly edited for clarity. Charlie Guarino: Hi everybody. Welcome to another edition of TechTalk SMB. I’m sitting here today with a couple of luminaries, in my opinion, in the IBM i community, people who when you first come to think of education in our community, advancing the platform certainly in many different […]
ArticlesThe Subtle but Significant Differences Posed by Power10 Hardware and the New HMC
August 24, 2023
Rob McNelly urges old dogs to learn new tricks and shares additional thoughts about the recently retired Nigel Griffiths
ArticlesManage IBM i Jobs With Service Commander
August 22, 2023
IBM i can run more technology than ever before. As such, the types of jobs that can be run are quite diverse—ILE programs, Db2 tasks and PASE programs can happily coexist. This synergy is indeed powerful, but it does come with a cost. All these jobs can be difficult to manage! Consider the simple notion […]
ArticlesWhen the Latest and Greatest Isn’t That Great
August 15, 2023
Rob McNelly on the challenges posed by some technological innovations, notes from IBM Support, and a shout-out to the newly retired Nigel Griffiths