IBM i is an integrated operating system designed for business resilience, featuring exceptional security, virtualization capabilities, and simplified operations. It supports a wide range of applications, enabling seamless integration and modernization across various platforms, including cloud and mobile technologies. IBM i plays a critical role in IBM's Power Systems software portfolio, continually evolving to meet new business requirements and trends in IT strategy.

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2. IBM i
and your IT Strategy
@ericjooka
#IBMiBelieve

3. What is IBM i?

4. IBM i
• Operating System

5. IBM i
• Operating System
• Operating Environment!

6. Operating Environment
• Database and file serving
• User Interface
• Security
• Work Management
• Virtualization
• Availability
• Networking and connectivity
• Auditing
• Storage management
• Application serving

7. IBM i home page
ibm.com/systems/power/i

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

10. IBM i runs on Power Systems

11. Power Systems
ibm.com/systems/power

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

13. IBM i, AIX, Linux

14. IBMi25 - June 2013

15. IBMi25 vignettes

16. The invisibility cloak of complexity

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

18. Shoes that fit every occasion

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

20. Where did I leave my keys?

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

22. May I see your badge, please?

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

24. A great idea is new again

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

26. Green is good; BYOD might be even better

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

28. No, it’s not rebounds per game

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

31. Welcome to the family!

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

33. We’ve really got a lot in common!

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

35. User Groups

36. What is IT Strategy?

37. Strategy
Where am I?
How do I get there?
Where am I headed?

38. Where are you?
• Hardware
• Infrastructure
• Applications
• Developers
• Stakeholders

39. Where are headed?
• What would your IT look like if you started today?
• How about in 1 year?
• How about in 2 years?

40. How do you get there?
• Repair
• Refit
• Restore
• Repurpose
• Reuse
• Replace
• Recommission

41. Where are you?

42. Where are you headed?

43. How do you get there?
Roadmap

44. Roadmap!

45. Where does IBM i fit?

46. IBM i Strategy white paper
ibm.com/systems/power/i

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

48. IBM has tools!

49. ITG Study

50. TCA & TCO

51. Downtime

52. IBM i Marketplace Survey

53. IBM i Marketplace Survey

54. IBM i Marketplace Survey
• The percentage of business planning to migrate from IBM i
• In the next two years
• Held steady at 4%

55. IBM i has a Roadmap!

56. IBM i has a Support Roadmap!

57. A modern IBM i!

58. IT Directions
• Cloud
• Analytics
• Mobile
• Social
• Dev Ops
• OSS
• Security

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

64. Social
• Connecting people
• Outside your organization
• Marketing
• Behavioural 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

66. Dev Ops?

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

69. Gartner 2016 Hype Cycle

70. Gartner 2016 Hype Cycle
• Trough of Disillusionment/
Slope of Enlightenment
- Cloud
- Mobile
- Social

71. Gartner 2016 Hype Cycle
• Peak of Inflated Expectations
- IoT
- Blockchain
- Wearable
- 3D Printing

72. Gartner 2016 Hype Cycle
• Innovation Trigger
- Artificial Intelligence
- New Design and
Innovation Approaches

73. A modern IBM i!

75. What is your IT Strategy?

76. IBM i
and your IT Strategy
@ericjooka
#IBMiBelieve

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