Third-Party Maintainers and the Datacenter Third-party maintainers (TPMs) and hardware support providers have long been a viable alternative to OEM support. Recently, IDC has observed an increase in the use of TPMs due to a growing awareness of their abilities. A 2024 IDC study found that...
Third-party maintainers offer organizations the ability to decouple support from the OEM, reduce ewaste, and stretch the return on investment of existing hardware. The IDC Analyst Brief was authored by Rob Brothers, Vice President of IDC with questions provided by Smart 3rd Party. It’s entitled “Maximizing...
Are you protecting your Data on IBM i OS, a Company Asset? PART 1 Back up your LPAR Profiles frequently, which takes 2 seconds to do. The critical console data backup ( CCD ) is suitable for protecting the HMC settings and profile backups; however, the profile...
In our last article we introduced the recent report we sponsored with International Data Corporation. The IDC Analyst Brief was authored by Rob Brothers, Vice President of IDC. It’s entitled “Cut Operational Costs: Use Third-Party Maintenance Providers for Stable Datacenters and Better Digital Transformation”. Key Takeaways...
With our world filled with wars, political upheavals, massive inflation, broken supply chains and uncertainty about how to achieve post pandemic “normal”, the challenge to maintain datacenter performance is increasing. We’ve recently sponsored a study by International Data Corporation (IDC) to look at how Third-Party...