THE FOUR HUNDRED - Power Systems & IBM i Insights

1. IBM Taps Nvidia GPUs For AI-Turbocharged Data Mart

   Nvidia became the world’s most valuable company thanks to its powerful GPUs, which can be used to train massive AI models containing trillions of parameters. But those GPUs can also be used to accelerate traditional SQL analytics on structured data sitting in a data lake, as IBM’s customer Nestlé found out in a recent deployment.

   Nestlé is the world’s largest food manufacturer, with more than 2,000 brands and operations spanning 186 countries. The Swiss company, which recorded revenues of CHF 89.5 billion ($113.5 billion at current exchange rates), operates 335 factories and employs about 271,000 people.

   The company, which is …

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2. Izzi Nabs Capricorn For IBM i Services And Bluehouse For Software Peddling

   Izzi Software has acquired another pair of companies with connections to IBM midrange and mainframe systems, including Capricorn Information Systems, a New York provider of IBM i technical services, and Bluehouse, a software distributor with a global network of sellers.

   Izzi Software emerged in early 2025 with a goal to buy smaller, founder-led software companies with revenues in the range of $2 million to $10 million who play in the IBM i and System Z markets. The Minneapolis, Minnesota-based company has made a handful of acquisitions to date, including System Z development tool provider Colesoft in 2025, IBM …

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3. IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 28, Number 12

   Happy Spring everyone! We are well into Daylight Savings Time and have longer – meaning brighter – evenings, so it is hard not to be optimistic about the spring, summer, and fall ahead. This week, we have one notice and two security vulnerabilities to start with. Let’s get to it.

   Let’s start with the OSP-Distribution requisite for Technology Refresh PTF, which you can find out more about at this link. The PTFs are as follows:

   • For IBM i 7.4: FI0138771, which is PTF SJ09037
   • For IBM i 7.5: FI0138772, which is PTF SJ09038

   Now, for the security vulnerabilities. First, …

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4. What Is Your Plan For Offsite Data Protection?

   IBM i shops have a lot of options when it comes to getting offsite data protection for their systems of record. We want to understand what you are doing, and how that might change.

   Like many IBM i shops, you probably back up your systems to tape and then store tapes offsite, or you might use cloud backup services that accomplish the same feat.

   We would like to better understand what you do, why you do it, and how well this strategy works for you. And to that end, we are working with FalconStor, which provides offsite data protection services …

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5. What Is Threatening IBM i Security Now

   The nature of cybersecurity threats is always changing, which requires constant vigilance by those who value security. IBM i is just as exposed to threats as any other networked operating system on the planet, but it’s also unique in certain ways, which actually makes security harder. To get the lowdown on how these phenomena interrelate in the first quarter of 2026, we turn to renown IBM i security expert Carol Woodbury from Kisco.

   Woodbury recently sat down with Justin Loeber, the Kisco owner and head of business development, to present a webinar titled IBM i Threat Landscape 2026: A Fireside …

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