Industry News

• 117-102 Revised availability: Select DS8870, DS8880, and DS8880F features remain available for ordering
• 217-026 IBM Watson Platform for Health GxP offers a validated health data Platform as a Service that is designed to enable life science and medical device companies to create innovative solutions for their clients, while helping to speed time to regulatory compliance
• 217-037 IBM Watson® for Real World Evidence is a cloud-based solution for researchers, analysts, and data scientists to facilitate the discovery of relevant and valuable insights with greater efficiency and confidence
• 217-415 IBM Spectrum Protect™ V8.1.3 delivers simplified deployment and intelligent cloud storage integration
• 217-454 Statements of deprecation: Withdrawal of selected capabilities from IBM z™ /Transaction Processing Facility
• 217-463 IBM Analytics Professional Services provides design and solution advisory services for Cloud Service use cases through expertise, methodology, and mentoring
• 217-469 IBM Integrated Analytics System M4001 optimizes performance for data science
• 217-477 IBM Watson Content Hub delivers a new optional feature to support nonproduction environments
• 217-478 IBM Watson Campaign Automation and IBM Campaign offer premium IBM technical support services through AVP One-Point Service
• 217-483 IBM Watson Workspace Essentials integrates cognitive capabilities for powerful, purposeful team collaboration solutions across the enterprise
• 217-491 IBM On Demand Consulting for Cloud unites clients with IBM hybrid cloud specialists for successful design, development, and deployment of innovative Cloud Services solutions
• 917-149 Software withdrawal and support discontinuance: Select IBM Spectrum Virtualize™ V7 offerings - Replacements available
• 917-152 Hardware withdrawal: IBM TS7620 ProtecTIER® Appliance feature - No replacement available
• 917-153 Software support discontinuance: IBM Spectrum Archive™ Enterprise Edition V1.1
• 917-156 Hardware withdrawal: IBM POWER7® miscellaneous features; and Statement of direction for accelerated infrastructure for AI and HPC

On behalf of the Maxava iFoundation, we'd like to thank everyone who participated in "the IBM i Community Strikes Back" bowling tournament. Please join us in congratulating Team WMCPA!

IBM champion and PHP guru Mike Pavlak joins the Fresche IT Strategy team while Amy Anderson becomes Director of North American Ecosystems.

• 217-299 IBM Maximo for Aviation V7.6.6 and IBM Maximo Asset Configuration Manager V7.6.6 streamline processes, improve asset management feature set, and add enhanced support
• 217-371 IBM High Performance Services adds additional IBM Spectrum™ Computing software options
• 217-402 IBM IoT Predictive Maintenance and Optimization V1.0.1 adds IBM SPSS® Modeler V18.1 to enhance analytics capabilities, and changes support for projects with Hadoop-based requirements
• 217-433 IBM Watson™ Video Enrichment allows content owners and distributors to improve content discovery and recommendations and can help increase operational efficiency
• 217-457 IBM Bluemix® Local System and IBM PureApplication® System firmware V2.2.4 deliver capabilities for license tracking and VMware virtual machine deployments
• 217-473 IBM Aspera® platform enhances client, web, and mobile apps to improve user experience and high-speed file transfer capabilities in hybrid cloud environments
• 217-480 IBM Prescriptive Quality for Manufacturing Private helps deliver the quality of process, materials, components, and products
• 217-489 Revised effective withdrawal from marketing date for IBM BigInsights
• 217-498 Revised information: IBM Business Process Manager V8.6
• 617-023 IBM® Cloud Private Storage, a dedicated hosted private storage cloud, leverages the latest in industry storage technologies for the right solution to improve your business agility and peace of mind
• 917-163 Services withdrawal: Declaration of plan to discontinue lease, rental, and maintenance services for selected machines
• 917-164 Cloud Service withdrawal and access discontinuance: IBM z™ Operational Insights

• IBM Power Systems Elastic CoD features available for ordering through Entitled Systems Support website, enabling processor and memory ordering in minutes and provisioning in seconds (for US only)
• IBM Emperor II offers a secure, scalable data foundation
• Weather Company Operations Dashboard for Retail delivers localized, interactive, and responsive access to weather and traffic services to tablets and mobile phones to improve operational efficiency for retailers and consumer packaged goods companies
• IBM Predictive Customer Intelligence V1.1.2 delivers real-time recommendations at scale across all customer touch points
• Preview: IBM Domino® Community Server for Non-Production intends to meet the high-impact challenges of application testing in non-production environments
• IBM Data Science Experience Local V1.1 turns data into business insights
• IBM Enterprise Content Management delivers new Federal data center and archival storage features for the ECM Software Services-based offerings
• IBM Partner Engagement Manager adds new, optional services, orderable through IBM Passport Advantage, to speed time to value
• Software withdrawal and support discontinuance: IBM Care Management
• Hardware withdrawal: Select IBM TS3310 tape library models - Replacements available
• Software withdrawal and support discontinuance: IBM® Cognitive Solutions, IBM Hybrid Cloud & Managed Services, IBM Watson™ & Cloud Platform, IBM Industry Platforms, and IBM Z select products and part numbers - Some replacements available
• Hardware withdrawal: Select IBM TS3100, TS3200, and TS3500 tape library models and features - Some replacements available
• Software withdrawal and support discontinuance: IBM Docker Datacenter, IBM Elite Support for Docker Datacenter, and IBM Enhanced Support for Docker Datacenter
• Cloud Service withdrawal: IBM Cloud private selected part number
• Cloud Service withdrawal:IBM Regulatory Compliance Analytics selected part number

The following are IBM United States Announcements as of September 5, 2017

• Power Systems™ delivers the extraordinary benefits of SAP HANA on Power® with new pricing features on Power E880C, E850C, and S824 servers
• IBM IMS Tools offer new and enhanced administration and database management solutions
• IBM Water Operations for Waternamics on Cloud helps enable water operators improve efficiency and deliver better services
• IBM Payments Pricing Solution for z/OS, V1.1 delivers a new per-payment pricing option for deployments of IBM Financial Transaction Manager for z/OS workloads
• IBM Db2 on Cloud enables larger database workloads on Bluemix® Dedicated private cloud infrastructure service, bringing public cloud service to private cloud clients
• Software withdrawal: IBM Cognos® Business Intelligence PowerPlay® selected part numbers
• Software support discontinuance: IBM WebSphere® Cast Iron® Hypervisor Edition - Replacements available
• Software withdrawal and support discontinuance: IBM Bluemix Local Containers and IBM Bluemix Dedicated Containers

Focus on potential of IBM i, peer discussions and problem solving

Seiden Group and System i Developer today announce their collaboration on a 2-day IBM i CIO Summit to be held October 16-17, 2017 in Minneapolis. The complimentary event is designed to help executive-level IT professionals understand the potential of today’s IBM i applications, and to help them overcome challenges they face in reaching that potential.