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10 Steps to Prepare for a Security Breach

Posted on August 28, 2018

We have to ask ourselves…what can we do to protect our organizations? In his book “Scouting for Boys” (1908), the founder of the Boy Scouts, Robert Baden-Powell said: “Be Prepared… the meaning of the motto is that a scout…

Peripheral Support for MSP Customers

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This blog was written as part of the iTech Monthly Newsletter, August 2018, by Yvonne Enselman. Yyvonne will be speaking at the COMMON Fall Conference in Pittsburgh. Join her for her session, Basics of Testing for Programmers. To join 20,000…

6 Steps to Execute an IBM i Security Project

Posted on August 22, 2018

Many companies want to improve the state of their IBM i security, but they often don’t know where to start. They also might not understand the long-term impact of recommended changes. Let’s take a closer look at six steps to properly execute a security improvement project.

iTech Solutions Group Shortlisted for Prestigious Cyber Security Award

Posted on May 23, 2018

DANBURY, CONN. – iTech Solutions announces it has been shortlisted for a prestigious Cyber Security award. The category is for the best “Cyber Awareness Plan of the Year”. The winning plan will be presented to the world’s media at a prestigious black tie event in London on June 21st 2018, sponsored by Cyber Security Awards, a leading awards event for the cyber security industry. The Cyber Security Awards, established in 2014, reward the best individuals, teams and companies within the cyber security industry.

IBM Names Mr. Pete Massiello, President and CEO of iTECH SOLUTIONS GROUP, LLC. First Power Lifetime Champion

Posted on May 8, 2018

IBM established the IBM Champions program to recognize the expertise in and extraordinary support and advocacy for IBM technology, communities, and solutions. IBM Champions are peer-nominated members of the user community who evangelize for the platform, and are not IBM employees. The “POWER” Champion class was started 2011. Massiello has been named a Lifetime POWER Champion, the first person to receive this honor.

iTech Solutions Group Champions featured in May issue of IBM Systems Magazine

Posted on May 4, 2018

IBMI i Advocate and OS Upgrade Specialist Pete Massiello is a subject matter expert on IBM i system administration, virtualization and the IBM Power Systems hardware that IBM i runs on.

What are the True Costs of Staying on Old Hardware?

Posted on March 16, 2018

We all know that one of the major benefits of our beloved IBM i is that it runs and runs well. We don’t reboot the IBM i to correct application errors. Our users don’t get a blue screen of death. The hardware is designed to support businesses with high availability needs. This also makes it possible to keep hardware running for 10 years or more.

Moving IBM i to POWER9

Posted on February 13, 2018

It’s always exciting when IBM announces new hardware and today is no exception! We have been hearing about the new POWER9 Chip for several months. In December IBM released the first set of LINUX machines powered by P9. Now the next set of servers on the POWER9 chip is announced – the Scale-out line. IBM i has been running POWER chips since the POWER5 introduction in 2004 and the roadmap below illustrates the history and future of this powerful technology. Welcome POWER9!

iTech Solutions Group, LLC. Introduces New IBM i Security Framework and Onboarding Service at Regional Seminar Series in February 2018

Posted on January 16, 2018

This new iTech Solutions Group service sets global customer security standards and increases the overall level of transparency on cybersecurity for IBM i customers.

Spectre and Meltdown – What Do You Do for IBM i?

Posted on January 15, 2018

The Spectre (Variant 1 & 2) and Meltdown (Variant 3) threats that target speculative execution on all CPU’s will affect IBM Power7, Power7+, Power8, and Power9 systems and IBM has stated that it will have firmware patches for Power Systems available but does not state if its patches will cover all three variants of the vulnerabilities. IBM has not issued fixes for Power6, Power6+, and Power7 systems.