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Taking Your First Steps Towards a Cloud-based IBM i

You’re responsible for maintaining and supporting business-critical applications on IBM i for your business. You’ve managed the IBM i and legacy applications for years with absolutely no problems. But now senior management have announced a move to cloud-based computing. A familiar scenario? Here, we examine… What are your first steps for making your IBM i […]

You Can Count on Abacus: Meet Fresche Solutions’ Latest Acquisition

What does Fresche’s new acquisition bring to the IBM i community? Our partners Fresche Solutions has acquired IBM i cloud, managed services and infrastructure solutions provider Abacus. This now makes Fresche the world’s largest end-to-end provider of IBM i solutions. Adding a cloud portfolio to an already attractive (and very impressive) stack of solutions for […]

How has Release and Change Management Changed on IBM i?

How has release and change management changed on IBM i? Over the years, IT teams have moved from Software Change Management, to Application Lifecycle Management and now to DevOps as the norm for release and change management practices. How has change management evolved from 1992 to 2021? Remain’s TD/OMS (originally OMS, or Object Management System) […]

Get a little iNSIGHT: The Best Sessions at COMMON iNSIGHT 2021

COMMON, the IBM i community’s membership organisation, is this week hosting its annual iNSIGHT conference. The organisation represents thousands of IT professionals, from IBM i users and industry experts to vendors, thought leaders, and academics, and COMMON iNSIGHT 2021 is a fantastic way to keep your IBM i knowledge up-to-date The event is free to […]

Why Choose Proximity for IBM i Application Support, Maintenance & Development?

For organisations running business-critical applications on the IBM i, supporting and maintaining those applications now and into the future is a key challenge. Those organisations are looking strategically at their IT strategies and IT application landscape over the next five, ten and fifteen years to find a way to not only ‘keep the lights on’ […]

How IBM i Improves Productivity – While Cutting Downtime and Admin Costs

Reliability. Security. Low cost of ownership. We’ve long shouted about the benefits of the IBM i platform. Now, it’s more than just shouting. IBM and Forrester Consulting have put some data behind those claims, in their Total Economic Impact of IBM i report. How the IBM i improves productivity – while cutting downtime and admin […]

Demystifying DevOps on the IBM i: What is DevOps and Why is it Important?

What is DevOps? When we talk about DevOps, what do we actually mean? What exactly is it? Quite literally, DevOps is a contraction of development and operations. It’s a set of practices used by developers and IT teams to speed up the development process and speed-to-market of applications. DevOps sees the development process, not as […]

The IBM i Landscape: HelpSystems’ Annual IBM i Marketplace Survey 2021

A year like no other: Trends and challenges for IBM i 2020 was a uniquely challenging year – both in the IBM i community and in the wider world. The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all of us, with postponed budget decisions, fully-distributed work-from-home models, and increased uncertainty. That particular picture hasn’t changed very much )so […]

A new Milestone for Remain Software

Our partners Remain Software has released their second Milestone of TD/OMS (Remain’s IBM i change management tool) V13, Gravity V6, Remain API Studio V2, and MiWorkplace V1.25.0. In line with the company’s longstanding commitment to ongoing product and customer support, these new Milestones mark the second of three scheduled enhancements to the current versions. The […]