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Lessons Learned from IBM's Native Scheduler
By Chuck Losinski on Mon, 03/14/2022
The systems that businesses rely on today are increasingly complex and challenging to manage without sophisticated job scheduling tools.
According to the annual IBM i Marketplace Survey Results, only 22 percent of IBM i shops are running the IBM i operating system exclusively. 68 percent are also running the Windows OS, another 56 percent are running Linux, and 26 percent are running AIX. That...
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Secure Data Sharing Solves These 3 Cybersecurity Challenges
Thu, 03/10/2022
As more of your organization's data is shared, protecting it gets more difficult. Securing your data-sharing capabilities solves these 3 challenges.
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What is the Data Security Lifecycle?
By Brian Pick on Tue, 01/18/2022
What is the data security lifecycle, and how does it impact your business? Discover the stages of the data security lifecycle, and how end-to-end encryption can help with your data protection.
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60+ IBM i User Groups and Communities to Join
By Tom Huntington on Thu, 12/16/2021
To help you stay connected to the thriving IBM i community, we’ve compiled a comprehensive list of IBM i user groups around the world. Read on!
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What Does Ansible Mean for IBM i Automation?
By Tom Huntington on Mon, 12/06/2021
Ansible is good for the IBM i platform as it provides additional automation around burdensome IT tasks. Learn more here.
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Data-Centric Security: What is it and Why Does it Matter?
By Steph Charbonneau on Mon, 11/29/2021
A data-centric security architecture takes data security a vital step further to protect the actual data from ever-increasing data breach threats.
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Top 6 Data Security Challenges and How to Address Them
By Scott Messick on Tue, 11/16/2021
Addressing an organization’s data security challenges requires some heavy lifting – no question about it. Rather than cobble together a piecemeal solution strategy, rely on trusted, integrated, and scalable data security solutions.
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Data Privacy vs. Data Security: What’s the Difference?
Tue, 11/09/2021
Learn the Difference between Data Privacy and Data Security. Data privacy can’t happen without layered Data Security measures applied throughout the sensitive Data’s lifecycle.
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A Beginners Guide to Protecting Your Data
By Steph Charbonneau on Wed, 11/03/2021
In this blog, Steph Charbonneau, Senior Director of Industry Strategy at Fortra, talks you through some of the most valuable aspects of data protection and how to measure success of your organizational programs.
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Corporate Data Security Policy: What, Why, and How
By Steph Charbonneau on Tue, 10/12/2021
Creating a corporate data security policy is a “must” in today’s evolving cybersecurity environment. Here’s a few tips on best practices.
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What Does IBM Power10 Mean for IBM i?
By Tom Huntington on Thu, 09/30/2021
Technology investments around IBM i shouldn’t be scary. The system is built so that the hardware can evolve while your business applications run with little or no interruption. Read on to learn more.
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Time to Replace Legacy AS/400 Schedulers?
This guide explores the limitations of legacy AS400 schedulers, identifies the signs that it’s time for a change, and points to the benefits of automated operations using modern workload automation software built for IBM i.
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Open PGP for IBM i (iSeries)
Tue, 08/10/2021
GoAnywhere MFT for IBM i (iSeries) includes native commands for performing PGP encryption and decryption functions directly on the IBM i (formerly known as and often still called AS/400). These commands can be placed in CL programs, the job scheduler or run from IBM i menus.
With GoAnywhere MFT, files can additionally be digitally signed with a private key on the IBM i. In turn, you can verify...
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IBM i MFT for Secure FTP and PGP
Tue, 08/10/2021
GoAnywhere MFT will automate and secure file transfers on the IBM i platform using Secure FTP, Open PGP and other popular protocols and encryption standards.
GoAnywhere's IBM MFT can be installed on IBM iSeries - version 7.1 and higher on IBM Power Systems, as well as many other operating systems.
Automates and secures file transfers with trading partners, customers and internal servers
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Think Mutual Bank Uses GoAnywhere MFT for Robust Features and PCI DSS Compliance
Tue, 08/10/2021
Industry: Banking and Finance
About a year ago, Think Mutual Bank, a bank located in the Midwest, was searching for a way to transfer data between disparate banking systems. Although Think Bank’s core system is the IBM i, the business banking segment runs on MS SQL. Getting all the data into one place (the IBM i), then copying updated files back to the MS SQL system was a challenge that had to be...
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The State of Maryland DLLR Secures and Simplifies File Transfers with GoAnywhere
Tue, 08/10/2021
Maryland’s Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation (DLLR) must transfer sensitive data in a secure and reliable fashion. Besides the challenge of ensuring information is protected in transit, each DLLR trading partner requires information to be sent in different file formats, such as fixed width, Excel, CSV, or XML.
The DLLR chose GoAnywhere to meet their growing file transfer needs and...
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Is Your Data REALLY Safe on the IBM i (AS/400)?
By Tom Huntington on Tue, 08/10/2021
“AS/400 is built to be safe and reliable.”
“No one makes viruses for the IBM i. There are no known cases of malware, either.”
“IBM has amazing IBM i server security, so we don’t have to worry about vulnerabilities.”
Do these statements sound familiar? Perhaps you’ve come across these claims in the industry, heard someone say something similar...
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Heads up! New Canadian Data Privacy Act is Around the Corner
By Steph Charbonneau on Tue, 07/06/2021
Canada’s data privacy laws may soon be changing. Brush up on what’s expected to change and how your organization can comply with stronger security safeguards.