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Using Free Tools to Automate the Installation of Linux on z/VM
Andy Hartman Sr. Systems Engineer Linux, running as a guest under z/VM on z Systems, has been around for many years, and over this time, it has gained many capabilities, as it’s matured on the platform. Linux has also matured in both ease of use and management. There...
read moreSimpliVity 380, The perfect building block for Hyperconvergence
Bill Turner Senior Systems Engineer Being a Pre-sales x86 Systems Engineer has never been more exciting since the mainstream acceptance of VMware, as an enterprise technology, which can run multiple workloads on a single x86 server. With Intel announcing its latest...
read moreDoes WannaCry have Your Organization in Tears?
Ken Gross Mainframe Software Specialist As I meet with executives, it is evident that one of the top priorities being discussed in organizations is how to protect their Infrastructure and data. Ransomware attacks are a reality and are not going away. With names, such...
read moreIBM announces Nutanix/Power System Hyperconverged Offering
Ron GordonDirector - Power Systems Hyperconverged systems may be a new concept for some, so let me start with a definition of hyperconverged systems. The term is relatively new, and is a type of infrastructure which is a software-centric architecture that tightly...
read moreJuniper – Putting the Security in SDSN
Ryan Hagen National Alliances Manager In this day and age, even though security is such a hot topic, it’s the most overlooked. It’s something that you can’t see, feel or touch, BUT you will know when it’s NOT working. Breaches in security are dominating the headlines....
read moreThe 2017 VM Workshop
Marianne Eggett z Systems Solutions Consultant VMworkshop.org The VM Workshop returned to its grassroots at Ohio State University this year, that is, its second-birth’s grassroots. This new reinvented VM Workshop is actually the resurrection of the VM Workshop...
read moreVMware and Amazon – SDDC of the future
Ryan Hagen National Alliances Manager VMware and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have combined forces to provide you with a truly hybrid environment. If you have followed the VMware portfolio, then you know they tried to build their own public cloud with vCloud Air, and...
read moreNutanix Acropolis – Time to pay attention
Ryan Hagen National Alliances Manager Nutanix continues to trail blaze their way through the hyperconverged market. Clearly a leader in the leading-edge technology, Nutanix has continued to do what they do best... make data center infrastructure invisible, and allow...
read moreThe DS8000 is different. What does that mean?
Steve Adil Disk Products Manager The DS8000 is architected very differently from other enterprise-class arrays. First, how is it different? And second, what does that difference mean to those who deploy it? The basic answer for how the architecture is different:...
read moreEnterprise Modernizations – The Time is Now
J Jeffrey Broderick z Systems Architect The IT industry has been evangelizing the need to invest in existing business applications, application tooling and developer skill-sets. For many datacenters, this may not have been a priority—for others, they did choose to...
read moreVeeam and Cisco – A partnership that works
Ryan Hagen National Alliances Manager Is it just me, or does this year seem to be the year of partnering? It is all about alliances, and nothing makes me happier than when two of my partners provide a world-class data center solution, just as Veeam and Cisco have...
read moreImpressions from Power Systems Technical University, June 2017 Orlando
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems The Power Systems Technical University was held in Orlando from June 5-9. The overall rating was 4.56 out of 5.0, so the attendees had a very positive view of the event. There were 1580 attendees for the Power University,...
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