February 7, 2026
If you have supported IBM i environments long enough, you already know how the story unfolds. The system runs flawlessly for years, sometimes decades, and then one morning it stops. […]
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February 3, 2026
For years, many IBM i teams treated updates as optional housekeeping. In reality, the PTF debt crisis is the new dividing line between safe environments and exposed ones. When I […]
January 30, 2026
Walk into almost any midmarket shop still running IBM i, and you’ll hear the same line: “Our system just runs. It never breaks.” As a CIO, I used to take […]
January 27, 2026
Most IT leaders still treat AS400 recovery like it is the early 2000s. Long backup windows, tape restores, weekend outages, and a sense that this is simply how IBM i […]
January 17, 2026
Do you have an aging IBM i environment? Are you weighing hardware renewal against cloud hosting? A pattern we see repeatedly is that the payback period for cloud hosting is […]
January 14, 2026
There is a myth that shows up in almost every steering committee review and budgeting session. People believe that once you pick a new platform, the rest will fall into […]
January 7, 2026
If you run IBM i environments long enough, you start to see patterns that should keep every CIO and IT director awake. The most persistent one is the backup illusion. […]
January 7, 2026
If you have run IBM i environments long enough, you have seen the legacy programmer trap play out repeatedly. Many CIOs inherit a 20-30-year-old system that quietly powers everything from […]
October 23, 2025
Rising IBM Subscription Licensing costs are squeezing SMB budgets. Discover how cloud solutions stabilize costs and simplify compliance.