June 19, 2019

MC Systems Insight

Lead Article - IT Infrastructure

Know Where Your Maintenance Stands

Don’t be caught in a blizzard with all-season tires.

By Steve Pitcher

This wasn’t the article I was going to write this week. But I’m covering this topic instead as a warning to everyone in the IBM i community to ensure you’re fully aware of the implications of not having the right kind of support.

Feature Article - Analytics & Cognitive

Open-Source Tools for Watson, Part 1

There’s way more to AI than just Watson. What are some of those other tools? And where do you get them? If you think those are good questions, keep reading.

By Dave Shirey  

You may have been thinking of Watson as a single product that does it all from soup to nuts. And to be fair, Watson covers a lot of ground.

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Node Webinar Series Pt. 1: The World of Node.js on IBM i

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Featured News - Cloud

IBM POWER9 on IBM Cloud to Help Accelerate Adoption of Hybrid Cloud

IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers on IBM Cloud Provide More Flexibility to Help Clients Modernize Workloads for the Hybrid Cloud Era

IBM today announced that IBM POWER9-based IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers are now available in the IBM Cloud. Clients now have access to IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers in North America via the IBM Cloud catalog to provide powerful scaleup compute for AIX and IBM i workloads for hybrid cloud. This is all backed by the performance, resiliency, and security capabilities of IBM POWER9 and IBM Cloud. The launch of IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers builds on the broad portfolio of POWER-based solutions in the IBM Cloud including GPU-accelerated servers on IBM Cloud, SAP HANA on Power Systems on IBM Cloud, and IBM Cloud for Skytap Solutions.

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