HarrisData has been an IBM business partner for decades.
It is what you get when you combine revenues of two of the industry's big players. With that kind of firepower, of course they should work together for the betterment of all. It appears they may be taking things a step further.
Do you mean Google is considering expanding their partnership with Big Blue? The power and stability of the IBMi and Power9 will be running on the Google Cloud Platform? This could be great news!
Viablity of the IBM i and Power. Check.
You can keep your applications and lose the data center. Check.
It is nice to have options…
There are more details regarding the advancing collaboration between these two giants in yesterday’s article by Alex Woodie.
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written by Tim Dunn, "Why are there businesses and complete industries built around performing services that companies must acquire in order to obtain any semblance of value in their software investment? ".
Identify the root cause. Determine the value of changing or altering the behavior, whether it is of the people, process, technology, or data. Hold it up against the amount of investment required. Decide, execute, and deliver. It is really quite simple.
Written by: Henry Nelson Now consider modern Payroll application design. Hours load automatically (from time clocks or spreadsheets – it doesn’t matter), and the payroll checks are produced behind the scenes. The user is notified that hours are available, and alerted to problems with individual checks.