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Remain Software Milestone Enhancements Boost Efficiency and Productivity for Organizations on IBM i and Multi-platform

NIEUWEGEIN, Netherlands — Remain Software delivered today its latest “Milestone” releases for the company’s three signature change-management, workflow and API editing and management tools: TD/OMS, Gravity and OpenAPI Studio. In line with the company’s longstanding commitment to ongoing product and customer support, today’s Milestones mark the second

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Shield Advance becomes Remains Software newest partner

Toronto, Ontario – Announcing Canadian-based Shield Advanced Solutions has become Remain’s newest partner providing their software and services in the marketplace. Shield and Remain technical teams have collaborated on several projects. Says Chris Hird Director, “It makes perfect sense. We see Remain’s change management solutions as a valuable addition

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Raz-Lee Security Announces IBM i Security Bundles

Nanuet, New York – December 4, 2019 – Raz-Lee Security is pleased to announce that they are now offering IBM i Security Bundles to address organizations’ fundamental need for cyber, security and auditing solutions for their IBM i. In today’s world, the IBM i is no longer isolated. Technological advances have

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HelpSystems Announces Clearswift Acquisition to Expand Cybersecurity Portfolio

MINNEAPOLIS, December 2, 2019 – HelpSystems announced today that it will acquire Clearswift, a UK-based content threat protection software company. Clearswift’s award-winning deep content inspection capability enables information to be scanned as it enters or leaves the organization, allowing sensitive data to be securely transmitted via email, or other web-based

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TD/OMS and Gravity “Milestone 1” Enhancements Streamline Efficiency and Advance Application Development Potential for Remain Software Customers

Remain Software released this Wednesday TD/OMS V12 Milestone 1 and Gravity V5 Milestone 1, in line with the company’s longstanding commitment to ongoing support for its signature application-lifecycle management, workflow and DevOps solutions. These Milestones deliver the first of three scheduled enhancements each to TD/OMS version 12

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How to get the Latest and Greatest

Within a few days the latest Technology Refresh for IBM i 7.4 and 7.3 will be available. The official planned availability day is 15 November 2019. For details please have a look at these two links IBM i 7.3 Technology Refresh 7 and IBM i 7.4

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A Worldwide Marketing Manager for IBM i, that’s sounds Champion!

PowerWire.eu had the pleasure last week to interview the newly appointed, Worldwide Head of marketing for IBM i, Brandon Pederson, who had kindly given us some of his time out of his day to answer a few questions. PowerWire:  Brandon, for our readers who don’t know about you

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Introducing the IBM i Community Badge Program

Brandon Paterson, Worldwide IBM i Product Marketing Manager for IBM, announced yesterday IBM’s initiative to recognise user groups, forums, events, and individual persons, who have and continue to support, advocate, teach or advice people, and companies, about our beloved IBM i & POWER systems, by starting a Digital Badge

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The RPG Five: Debut Performance

On a light-hearted note, take a look at this video clip on YouTube, it just proves that talent holds no bounds! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc3zx233Td8 Is this the start of a new TV series; IBM i (ers) got talent

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i-Power Midlands Conference

One for the diary! Save the date. The last i-UG event of 2019 is taking place in Wolverhampton on Thursday 7th November at The Mount Hotel, the agenda is still under contruction, but PowerWire.eu can reveal it will be a dual stream agenda containing plenty of educational sessions about

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How will you use IBM i in 2020?

Throughout September you will be able to take part in the 6th annual IBM i Marketplace Survey and tell people how you will be using your IBM i in 2020. To take part in the survey simply click on this link https://bit.ly/IBMi-marketplace-2020 To view last years results

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New research: Legacy applications threaten digital transformation initiatives for IBM i shops

Only 37 per cent of respondents have a clearly designated person or team with responsibility for retiring legacy systems PETERBOROUGH, NH – July 09, 2019 – 67 per cent of survey participants admit to keeping legacy IT applications running simply because the historical data they hold is still useful according to new

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IBM’s Steve Will talks AS/400, POWER9, IBM i 7.4, cognitive systems, and everything in between.

True or False: The IBM i operating system is just the AS/400 all over again. False! The AS/400 provided a solid foundation, but it has evolved over the years into the entirely new technology that we call IBM i. The 2019 chapter in our journey from AS/400

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Fresche Solutions and CSI Partner to Bring IBM i Applications to the Cloud

Thursday June 6, 2019 – In a bid to deliver higher economic impact, reduce cost and increase innovation for clients, enterprise performance partner CSI has partnered with Fresche Solutions (Fresche), a provider of IBM i modernisation solutions, to unblock access to the cloud for IBM i applications. CSI’s unique private

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IBM i Conference in the UK

i-UG’s International i-Power is the largest IBM i Conference of the year in the UK and they will have a whole host of topics to choose from, looking at many key aspects of today’s IBM i installations. Here are just some of the topics being covered this year…

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Programmers Comments

This is a light hearted article this month while I prepare for my Node.js on IBM i workshop at the UK International i Power conference 2019. Over the 40 odd years I have been programming, I’ve come across some fantastic comments in source code.  They certainly make code

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‘i’ will emPOWER the new generation of techs

For as long as I can remember, the Holy Grail of IBM i computing has been to engage with the younger generations and to bring them into the safe and secure IBM i fold; and it has been a tough journey. Until now! This just got a whole lot easier!

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The 2019 Common Europe Congress

The 2019 Common Europe Congress adds IBM experts to agenda including the latest announcements and education on OS 7.4 and Db2 Mirror; Luxembourg, Europe; 20 May 2019.  The Common Europe Congress (CEC), a technical association event centered around IBM i technology, has newly added more world-known IBM experts to

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IBM i Security Best Practices – Presented by Jeff Uehling

Security best practices and regulatory compliance are a constantly moving target. In this webinar, Syncsort’s Product Management Director for Security Solutions, Jeff Uehling, shares what he’s learned over the past 30 years regarding IBM i security best practices. Key topics include: * Why you need to run at security

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Raz-Lee Security Announces ICAP Client for iSecurity Anti-Virus

iSecurity Anti-Virus has been enhanced to support the new ICAP Client. With this solution, the actual virus scanning is performed outside the IBM i, by organizational servers. This solution is important for organizations with multiple LPARs (logical partitions), especially if these LPARs are using parts of a processing unit. ICAP,

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Say Hello to IBM i 7.4

Say Hello to IBM i 7.4 It’s time to meet the new kid on the block, as IBM announces the latest version of IBM i.  IBM i 7.4, announced today and generally available from June 2019. The arrival of 7.4 in 2019 is no surprise, for

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i-UG’s International i-Power is back and this time it’s bigger than ever!

International i-Power is returning to Milton Keynes on the 11th & 12th June and this year the agenda is the largest it has ever been! Continuing with the great success in 2018 the System i-Developers (SiD for short) team are returning this year to deliver lectures to developers who work

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48 Hours in POWER

There is a great Travel Guide to IT Transformation that IBM Power Systems are presenting where you can virtual travel around the globe and visit companies / organisations that are employing POWER Systems to deliver technology solutions that are quite honestly ‘eye opening’, and at the end of each short story

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IBM i: The Most Amazing IBM Product We Have Heard Of

Today I read an article in eweek about IBM i from a reporter who had attended the IBM Think 2019 conference in San Francisco, encountered IBM i for the first time and thought he had stepped into an alternative universe. It was a nice article to read because it was

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Fifth Annual IT Marketplace Survey Reveals Ongoing Reliance on IBM i to Support Critical Business Needs

HelpSystems announced today that its fifth annual IBM i Marketplace Survey Results reveal not only that the IBM i platform continues to be a top choice for IT professionals, but also that investment in the platform is growing. More than 750 IT professionals from around the world participated in the