The cost of a data breach can throw businesses into turmoil and derail careers. And that cost continues to rise. The potential for significant damage is massive on servers like IBM's Power Systems servers running IBM i, because they’re widely used for database management, financial data processing, and business intelligence—all mission-critical applications and workloads. While servers running IBM...

Migrating to the cloud is a primary objective for many organizations today. While the benefits of operating in the cloud—like cost savings, scalability, and increased collaboration potential—are widely known, the reality of the transition can be challenging. IT departments have a wide variety of factors to consider including the cost of migration, security concerns, and difficulties with...

Before you commit the resources to develop an in-house solution for exit point security , read our list of issues to consider. You might decide it’s neither easy nor cost-effective to set up and monitor your own in-house solution.

Tech has had a tremendous impact on the way today’s businesses seek continued growth and improvement. No matter what business they are in, executives everywhere are investing in technology that improves their business processes, gets them ahead of the competition and widens their margins. Ultimately, the return on that investment is determined by how well technology supports a business’ ability to...

Over the years, users have relied on commands like STRSQL and RUNSQL to provide instant and powerful access to the data on their Power Systems™ servers. All types of users—from programmers to system administrators to end users—use these commands as their primary interface for extracting and updating data. However, allowing a user to view, update, and even delete data without any control by the...

The IFS is one of the most ignored parts of the system, yet it enables many of the most powerful and most used features on IBM i today. Overlooking the ways in which IBM i utilizes the IFS could weaken your security.