IBM i and Your IT Strategy - presentation by Trevor Perry, Fresche's IBM Champion at iBelieve 2016, November 3 in Paris. A presentation about the role of IBM i in your IT strategy.
8. IBM i - Built for business
IBM i is an integrated operating environment with a reputation for exceptional
security and business resilience.
- Virtualized to support multiple applications and processes with stability and integrity
- Optimized for exceptional business resilience and non-disruptive growth on IBM
Power® servers
- Trusted security with auditing and compliance tools
- Designed for open application design choices with exceptional infrastructure support
for mobile devices
- Thousands of industry application solutions available from Independent Software
Vendors (ISVs)
- Simplified operations and storage management
9. IBM i - Summary
• Integrated operating environment
• Virtualized
• Non-disruptive growth
• Trusted security
• Open application design
• Thousands of application solutions
• Simplified operations
• Simplified storage management
12. Power Systems
• IBM Power Systems offer servers built with open technologies and
designed for mission-critical applications.
• Today’s business leaders demand servers designed for big data that
are optimized, secure, and adapt to changing workload requirements.
• Power for your business
POWER for large enterprises
POWER for midsized businesses
POWER for developers
Compare Power Systems to x86
17. Integration
• Integration is the essence of IBM i
• It’s what the ”i” stands for
• It’s simple
• It’s reliable
• Good integration
- hides complexity
- makes products simple to use
- makes products highly reliable
19. TIMI
• An abstraction layer insulating users & applications
from underlying hardware
• IBM i companies move without disruption
- Different processor generations
- Different disk technologies
• Protects investments in business applications
21. Single Level Storage
• No DBA to define where files, programs are stored
• Memory, hard disks, SSDs
all appear in a contiguous address space
• Objects automatically managed with device-independent addressing
• The OS will continuously evolve in support of new technologies
23. Object Orientation
• Objects will behave predictably and within the limits of
a user's authority
• Protect IBM i against malware or other malicious attacks
• Foundation for reputation as one of the most secure IT systems
for business
25. Virtualization
• PowerVM supports IBM i virtual machines
• Automatic adjustment for optimal performance
• Live partition mobility to move partitions between systems
without disruption
• One of the most efficient & scalable SaaS cloud platforms
27. User Interface
• Developers created millions of successful 5250 applications, providing
business value to hundreds of thousands of companies
• Application modernization now enables rendering the presentation
layer to whatever device is needed
• With RPG Open Access, developers can
write RPG applications for those devices without 5250
29. RPG
• Readily acknowledged as perhaps the most efficient
programming language ever created for business applications
• Specializes in very efficient transaction processing
• Also COBOL, C/C++, Java, PHP, CL
• ILE
• Rational Development Tools
• High-performance transaction-processing applications businesses
rely on all around the world
30. (some) IBM i Languages
• RPG
• COBOL
• CL
• C/C++
• Java
•Python
•Ruby
•node.js
•PHP
32. PASE
• Integrated AIX runtime environment enabling UNIX & Java
applications
• IBM i customers benefit from thousands of applications without
the burden of managing two OSs
34. User Groups
• The longevity of IBM i has been aided by its devoted and
passionate user community.
- COMMON
- ISUC
- i-UG
- NEUGC
- TUG
- WMPCA
- OCEAN
- LISUG
47. IBM i Strategy white paper
• IBM i plays a critical role in our Power Systems
software portfolio
• We continuously provide new solutions and are
actively engaged in expanding into new technology
areas to support the new business requirements of
our clients
• Our ongoing commitment to IBM i is reflected by our
regular semi-annual delivery of easy-to-deploy IBM i
Technology Refreshes
59. Cloud
• Pervasive
• Hybrid cloud
• Powered by Power
• Software vendors will become Cloud providers
• SaaS becoming preferred model
60. 5 cloud computing predictions
1. Death of the enterprise public cloud
2. Hybrid cloud and cloud brokerage have their day in the sun
3. The battle of infrastructure is over,
the battle of applications is about to begin
4. Reengineering enterprise IT
5. Containers emerge as the future of applications
61. Analytics
• Data, Data, Data
• Collection improves exponentially
• Improved analytic algorithms
• Watson rules the world
• Demand, Demand, Demand
62. Analytics– top 5 predictions
1. Machine learning established in the enterprise
2. Internet of Things hype hits reality
3. Big data moves beyond hype to enrich modeling
4. Cybersecurity improved via analytics
5. Analytics drives increased industry-academic interaction
63. Mobile
• Anywhere, Any time
• Data collection
• Wearables
- Apps
- Data
• Information Analytics
65. Dev Ops
• A clipped compound of development and operations
• A culture, movement or practice
that emphasizes the collaboration and communication of:
- software developers
- other information-technology (IT) professionals
• Automating the process of software delivery & infrastructure changes
• It aims at establishing a culture and environment
- building, testing, releasing software
- rapidly, frequently, more reliably
67. OSS
• It’s happening!
• IBM i origins in sharing code
• Open Source Software/Solutions
• Languages
• Operating Systems
• Applications
• Developers
68. Security
• The cost to retrofit security is HIGH
• Address it now
- Physical security
- Infrastructure security
- Application security
- Cultural security
- Database security