This article was originally written for and published on MC Press Online. The original article can be found here. With supply chain uncertainty, it makes sense to not delay your 2020 purchase of POWER9 and storage. The new COVID-19 virus is making its way around the globe. In response, governments are issuing travel embargoes, companies are ordering staff to work from home if possible, and people are stocking up on groceries, fuel, and water. IBM has recently requested its workers in China, Japan, South Korea, and Italy work from home…

This article was originally written and posted within  2020 February COMMON Connect. The original article can be found here. Open Source? Yeah, I put a question mark at the end.  Most times when people think of Open Source, they are thinking Python, PHP, Java, Swift, Ruby, C# and JavaScript to name a few.  Most people don’t associate Open Source with systems management or operating systems.  In fact, most people don’t even think that open source is ready for enterprise corporate programming.  When open source started taking off, about 30 years…