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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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 […]
April 14, 2025
The purpose of this blog is share insights about IBM servers and hosting that is way more than users need. Disclaimer: IBM i is an operating system. iSeries and AS400 […]
April 1, 2020
This blog briefly describes IBM’s SWMA (Software Maintenance for IBM Licensed Program Products) price increases beginning April 1, 2020 and an overview of some of your options. Disclaimer: IBM i […]
March 26, 2020
The purpose of this blog is to explain the IBM i encryption options and factors to help the reader determine when IBM i data-at-rest encryption is cost-justified. Disclaimer: IBM i […]
March 12, 2020
The purpose of this blog is to briefly highlight the 7 key benefits of online cloud backup. Tape management can be distracting and is prone to failure. Online backup […]
March 9, 2020
The purpose of this blog is to highlight how excessive frugality and lack of IBM i (iSeries/AS400) expertise can have grave consequences for users. Over the decades I have […]
February 26, 2020
The purpose of this blog is to provide a high-level overview of 4 key 2020 IBM i trends. Each topic involves more detail than I can provide with this […]