IBM Power

The Safest Open Port Is the One You Don’t Need

We started using Tailscale because SSH access had become annoying. PANDAROSE operates systems across several cloud providers, internal networks, development environments, and client infrastructure. Our old approach relied on public IP allowlists, SSH tunnels, traditional VPNs, and enough firewall rules that changing Internet providers could become a small administrative event. The setup was reasonably secure. […]

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IBM Just Gave the Small AS400 Shop a Power11. Pay Attention.

IBM announcements have a habit of arriving wrapped in enough product names, feature codes, technology refreshes, and carefully capitalized nouns to make an ordinary human reach for a decoder ring. This one is worth decoding. The IBM Power S1112 became generally available on July 24, 2026. It is a compact, one-socket Power11 server aimed at

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The AS400 Is Not Expensive. Buying It Blindly Is Expensive.

I like IBM i. I should probably say that up front, because this is not one of those articles where someone discovers an old system, squints at a green screen for four minutes, and declares that everything needs to be replaced by something “cloud-native” before lunch. I grew up around AS400 systems, RPG, CL, printer

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