IBM Champion Rob McNelly on the New AIX 7.3 Announcement
October 29, 2021
AIX 7.3 was announced on October 19, 2021. Get the details from Rob McNelly in this video.
ArticlesHow to Check NPIV Virtual Fibre Channel Adapter Mapping on AIX
October 21, 2021
AIX/Power System administrators can now use an alternative to kdb for viewing VIOS "identifying info" from client AIX LPARs. Learn more from Chris Gibson here.
ArticlesMonitoring Tools for Power Systems and AIX
October 20, 2021
Monitoring tools improve service availability and productivity by proactively identifying, diagnosing and repairing slow or otherwise unstable connections. On the other hand, management tools ensure that your system is available, configured properly and its components are connected correctly and as expected, whereas monitoring tools look for overall system, communication, and application performance impacts. For above-mentioned […]
ArticlesA New AIX Video Series and the Latest on AIX Open Beta and Power10
October 14, 2021
IBM Champion Rob McNelly on his new TechChannel AIX video series, and the latest news on Power10 and AIX open beta
ArticlesActive Prestart Jobs in New Navigator
October 13, 2021
With New Nav, you have a graphical user interface and you no longer need to craft your own queries to get at the data. Learn the benefits from Dawn May here.
Rudi Van Helvoirt on COVID-19 and the Future of SQL Programming
October 4, 2021
Paul Tuohy: Hi everyone and welcome to another iTalk with Tuohy. I'm delighted to be joined today by, I think long overdue iTalk with my friend, my colleague and IBM Champion Rudi Van Helvoirt. Rudi, how are you? Rudi Van Helvoirt: I'm fine. Paul: Did I kill your name? Was I close enough in the […]
PodcastsCarol Woodbury on Security Strategies and Best Practices
October 4, 2021
Charlie Guarino: Hi everybody. This is Charlie Guarino. Welcome to another edition of TechTalk SMB. I am so happy today to sit down and have a nice chat with the former IBM i security architect of IBM i and the current co-founder of DXR Security, a company that helps organizations change their IBM i security one […]
ArticlesProtecting Data Within New HA/DR Parameters
September 30, 2021
There are two types of organizations in the world: those that have experienced unplanned system downtime and those that will. Of the first group, many have likely tightened up their high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) methods and tools as a result of their incidents, moving, for example, to hosted cloud-based HA/DR services. Within the […]
ArticlesThe Cost of Enterprise Downtime
September 30, 2021
Enterprise downtime is now more expensive than ever: Some 44% of firms indicate that hourly downtime costs exceed $1 million to over $5 million, exclusive of any legal fees, fines or penalties. Additionally, 91% organizations said a single hour of downtime that takes mission-critical server hardware and applications offline, averages over $300,000 due to lost […]
ArticlesThe Importance of Cloud-Based HA/DR Technology
September 30, 2021
For many organizations, budgeting discussions for disaster recovery (DR) and high availability (HA) have played out in a similar manner for decades: The IT department asks to spend a set amount for capital expenditures and a set amount for operating expenses. However, the infrastructure needed to back up the data center and networks in case […]