In my last blog post I talked about the first step in Disaster Recovery or High Availability planning, Business Impact Analysis – The First Step in DR Planning. The next step in the process is conducting a Risk Assessment. A risk assessment will help you identify the events that could impact your organization. This will…
Business Impact Analysis – The First Step in DR Planning
Disaster Recovery and High Availability have been a pretty common theme in client conversations lately. Most of the conversation centers on the increased awareness of the need by business management and the continued decline in the costs involved in implementing those solutions. In a blog post I wrote a couple years ago I talked about…
Application Modernization – A Conversation
A few weeks ago I wrote a blog post dealing with the specifics of application modernization on the IBM i platform. This inspired a conversation I had with a customer. Our conversation was not focused on any one computing platform but was more of a general industry conversation. At the heart of our conversation were…
IBM i Application Modernization: PHP on IBM i
The IBM Power System running IBM i (and its predecessors) has been a workhorse in the commercial computing environment for decades. Its reliability, security and performance are unmatched in the marketplace. That’s the attitude of our clients. To say there’s an affinity for the platform by those that rely on it is an understatement. Also…
Is server consolidation always the most cost effective solution?
If you’ve read some of my recent blog articles, you’re probably well aware that I love configuring hardware solutions. It may even be considered by many as a borderline obsession. Even though we still consider it hardware, 90% of the process is spent dialing into the most cost efficient combination of hardware and software to…