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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A recent article from Joshua Greenbaum at EAC reignited passion around the topic of enterprise software implementations and the implications it has on companies and their employee’s livelihood.
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.
Written by Tim Dunn, The forest I am looking at doesn’t contain Unicorns. They will not be showing up here anytime soon. I’m ok with that. Because if we keep doing things right, for the right reasons, like we have for the past 45 years, we’ll remain at a healthy and respectful place in the food chain. I can see it.