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IBM Cloud Pak for Security adds to its zero trust capabilities; new blueprints and expanded partner integrations to simplify zero trust adoption IBM Security today introduced a new Software as a Service (SaaS) version of IBM Cloud Pak for Security, designed to simplify how organizations deploy a zero trust architecture across the enterprise. The company also announced an alliance partnership with leading cloud and network security provider, Zscaler, and new blueprints for common zero trust use cases.

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IBM announces container-native Spectrum Fusion built on Red Hat as well as ESS storage updates.

Architecture Overview : https://youtu.be/t-WMmrD6KuwIn this demonstration, see how to position and use containers in the app modernization journey on IBM i. Based on real customer requests, It is a good conversation starter illustrating the use of the latest technologies on a live environment (#ShowNotTell)and a fictive company ‘AcmeAir’: app development and test of a microservice application running on OpenShift 4.x on Power integrated with a ‘customer’ (CRM) microservice running on IBM i / Db2 Mirror for i. Stateless and Stateful: Best of both worlds. Code used in the demo: https://github.com/bmarolleau/acmeair-customerservice-java-jdbc

In this demonstration, see how to position and use containers in the app modernization journey on IBM i. Live Demo here : https://youtu.be/cHWDmc4J6NIBased on real customer requests, It is a good conversation starter illustrating the use of the latest technologies on a live environment (#ShowNotTell)and a fictive company ‘AcmeAir’: app development and test of a microservice application running on OpenShift 4.x on Power integrated with a ‘customer’ (CRM) microservice running on IBM i / Db2 Mirror for i. Stateless and Stateful: Best of both worlds. – Introduction: IBM Hybrid Multi Cloud approach-OpenShift & IBM i Integration – jdbc or REST API-Db2 Mirror for i (HA Solution for the database), consumption from front-end containerized apps (Web, Mobile)-Automation & DevOps: Image build and S2i, Git, Jenkins Pipeline, IBMiOSS, Ansible for i. Code used in the demo: https://github.com/bmarolleau/acmeair-customerservice-java-jdbcPresentation : https://ibm.box.com/s/0bwk4h6lvoznqdcpnhrtux8iqng8ffgeVisit My Blog : https://bmarolleau.github.io

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IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps può aiutare ad automatizzare le operazioni IT, utilizzando l’AI per ottenere la massima efficienza, ridurre i costi e mantenere la resilienza e la sicurezza necessarie per promuovere esperienze significative per gli utenti finali.

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Digital Transformation and in particular Artificial Intelligence (AI) offer many opportunities to gain insights from your business data, grow your business or automate processes that were difficult to automate when using traditional methods. Many of the AI services are available as cloud offerings. To quickly start application modernization, you probably …

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With it appearing all the essentials are in place for IBM POWER10 Linux support, in recent days we have seen an uptick in patches from IBM engineers working on POWER10 performance optimizations. The big one to call out this week are wake_affine improvements to sched/fair. After IBM found “the benchmark numbers on POWER10 were lesser than expected” they traced part of that back to the Linux scheduling code. Due to the POWER10 L2 cache being at the core level, some tuning to sched/fair was done for POWER10 including a preference of idle CPU cores to cache affinity. This set of patches plus this earlier patch series from the start of April appears to pay off. The earlier series was in ensuring that the L2 cache is correctly discovered and setting the last-level cache (LLC) domain to the SMT sched-domain. These patches appear to be paying off with cases like the Java DayTrader benchmark showing 44% higher throughput.Synthetic scheduling benchmarks were also paying off. But these patches still need to be further reviewed and also haven’t yet been tested against existing POWER9 hardware to ensure no regressions. These patches are too late to see for Linux 5.13 but perhaps later this year with the 5.14 kernel will be ready. There have also been other smaller patches throughout the Linux/open-source ecosystem in recent days and weeks like Glibc optimizing Strlen for POWER10. Yes, some nice improvements even for the string length function. IBM POWER10 systems are expected to begin reaching customers at the end of the calendar year so expect more tuning in the months ahead.

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DevilutionX 1.2.1 is a big milestone for this reversed engineer Diablo 1 game engine. The new version now officially support Hellfire expansion pack. Furthermore it also offers users many new Quality of Life features such as “Show XP bar”, “Show Enemy Health”

Redpaper, published: Thu, 22 Apr 2021 This IBM Redpaper publication documents how to containerize and deploy SAP software into Red Hat OpenShift 4 Kubernetes clusters on IBM Power Systems by using predefined Red Hat Ansible scripts, different configurations, and theoretical knowledge, and it documents the findings through sample scenarios.

Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE)

To integrate faster and better, every integration should be:Automated – leveraging best practices and built-in reuse.Closed-loop – applying AI to real-world operational data to identify issues and recommendations and driving continuous improvement.Multi-style – bringing together the right combination of integration capabilities versus to one-style-fits-all.Learn more about IBM Cloud Pak for Integration  Assess your organizations integration maturity

RBDOOM-3-BFG is a well known enhancement port of Doom 3 BFG by Robert Beckenbans (aka RB). Last year I made a quick video of RBDoom3 version 1.2.0 to demonstrate that the game could be compiled successfully on Linux PowerPC 64 Little Endian without trivial changes. This year RB has addressed many issues in the upcoming version 1.3.0. The game is now playable and crashes much less often. 0:00 intro0:54 game loading1:40 Hell Post gameplay2:53 New Game gameplay5:17 segfault5:52 Mars City gameplay6:50 Exis 2 gameplay8:08 exit crash and outro## HardwareRaptor Computing Systems Blackbird (C1P9S01) motherboardIBM POWER9 V2 8-core 3.8Ghz 32-threads (Sforza) (02CY649)64GB Samsung M393A4K40CB2-CTD7Q DDR4 2666 ECC RDIMM RAM (2 x 32GB) 980 PRO NVMe M.2 SSD 1TB on PCIe 4.0 X8 to X4 riser cardRaptor Computing Systems 3U HSF Assembly for POWER9 CPUs (TL2HS3)Cooler Master MWE Gold Fully Modular 750W Power SupplyAMD Radeon R9 Nano## SoftwareOS: Fedora Workstation 33 PPC64LEKernel: 5.10.24Game: RBDOOM3-BFG 1.3.0