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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Most CIOs frame IT planning around budgets, licensing renewals, or hardware refresh cycles. What often goes unexamined is seasonality: the fact that business rhythms throughout the year dictate when technology […]
Most IBM i environments today are running on hardware that’s 10 to 20 times larger than what the actual workloads require. Not because IT leaders want that much horsepower, but […]
Most CIOs assume that paying for extended hardware support keeps them safe. The logic seems simple: when a system board fails, IBM will send someone to fix it. The reality […]