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VLOG – Tips on IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) Standby Storage Engine
IBM added a spare storage engine to the SAN Volume Controller (SVC) to improve availability and performance. The new standby node reduces the impact of an SVC engine in a cluster going offline.
VLOG – IBM System z Migration – IPLA and MLC Licenses Unraveled
How to avoid financial impact of IBM MLC and IPLA software license charges
VLOG – How to Run a Successful IT Automation Project
IT Automation offers the opportunity of efficiency and cost saving to business processes.
VLOG – Make Real-Time Business Decisions with IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator (IDAA) for z/OS
There’s truth and good reason in the old adage “keep your data closest to its source”.
But, contrary to that performance and security best practice, many data centers running IBM z Systems mainframe servers exported the data to x86 data warehousing platforms, chasing the promise of the “economical x86 server farm”.
VLOG – Automate Business Operations with IBM Watson – Helpdesk Automation
There are hundreds, if not thousands, of opportunities to use IBM Watson artificial intelligence to automate business processes to improve effectiveness and reduce costs.
VLOG – Running servers and containers on IBM System z in a virtualized environment
By deploying Linux on IBM z Systems, your business can significantly reduce operating costs* and have the reliability and security you need to run your critical workloads.
VLOG –Infinidat Review: Advanced Function Storage for Data Intensive Workloads at a Commodity Price
Steve Adil, Storage Solutions Consultant, reviews Infinidat enterprise storage with its All-Flash array performance, 7 nine’s availability and cloud independence.
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) with Spectrum Virtualize and Amazon Web Services
Ian Wright Client Technical Sales Engineer Putting your DR in the cloud will certainly be a very attractive option to consider when allocating funds for a resilient business. Automation, Procedures and IT Infrastructure Disaster Recovery can be...
read moreDon’t Let Garbage Drag You Down: IBM z14 and LinuxOne Guarded Storage Facility
Andy Hartman Senior Consultant With all of the new features and enhancements the newest generation of z systems provides, the new Guarded Storage Facility (GSF) may not be getting the attention it deserves. The z14 and LinuxOne are built for running...
read moreMy Reflections on Power Systems Topics at IBM THINK 2019
Ron Gordon Director » Power Systems IBM Think 2019 in San Francisco was incredible for several reasons, including the approximately 32,000 people in attendance with over 4000 sessions conducted in over 10 venues. And, if current plans hold with IBM,...
read moreFlash Storage Explained in a Flash
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read moreNutanix and IBM Power Systems Join
Ron Gordon Director » Power Systems Nutanix is the industry leader in providing hyperconverged systems. Hyperconvergence is the fundamental building block for enterprise cloud. IBM and Nutanix have joined forces to deliver an enterprise cloud...
read moreIBM DS8000 Safeguarded Copy – Protecting Data
Steve Adil Disk Products Manager - Mainline Information Systems Customers are looking for help with new security challenges Cybertheft. Malware. Hackers. Ransomware. It seems to be coming from all angles. Remember WannaCry? It prompted sudden...
read morePower Systems Software Update – 14 Things to Know
Ron Gordon Director » Power Systems It’s been a while since I talked about the IBM software support on Power Systems, including what is new and changing. Here, I will give you a high-level overview of the latest information regarding IBM Power...
read moreRed Hat Ansible – Break Down Traditional IT Silos with Automation
Keith Thuerk Storage Engineer If you have spent any length of time in Information Technology (IT), you know that we all are being asked, continually, to do more with less (resources, budget, etc.) To put it another way, the workload only gets...
read moreHTAP – Hybrid DB Reduces Complexity and Cost and Drives Faster Innovation
J Jeffrey Broderick Enterprise Architect Db2 for zOS is the foundation for transactional systems designed to support very high volume, high availability, security and encryption of data. Performance, reliability and throughput are...
read moreIBM Powers Systems Strategy
Ron Gordon Director » Power Systems Recently, I have been in several IBM sessions where the IBM Power Systems, now known as Cognitive Systems, has presented their strategy. As many of you have not had the opportunity to be at an IBM Cognitive Systems...
read morePower Linux is Special
Ron Gordon Director » Power Systems I recently read a blog that said Linux is Linux is Linux, and that one should not look at Linux distributions on IBM Power Systems as anything special or different. Well, I certainly take exception to that premise....
read moreGartner Moves Infinidat into the Leaders Magic Quadrant
Steve AdilDisk Products Manager What is Infinidat Infinidat is an Enterprise class storage array that changed the landscape when it entered the market in 2011. Infinidat’s founder and CEO, Moshe Yanai, brought with him a long history of bringing...
read morez/VM 7.1 and Continuous Delivery on IBM z and IBM LinuxOne
Andy Hartman Senior Consultant With the recent release of z/VM 7.1 for IBM z and LinuxOne, IBM has made changes to how z/VM will implement new enhancements and how the release cycle will flow from release to release. Another of the new enhancements,...
read moreIBM Systems Technical University 2018 – Hollywood, Florida
Marianne Eggett z Systems Solutions Consultant If you were unable to attend the 2018 IBM Z and Storage Systems Technical University in Hollywood Florida, you missed an outstanding event! Though the rain and wind shifted the evenings’ pool-side...
read moreIBM Power Systems Announces Software Updates to Key Products
Ron Gordon Director » Power Systems On October 9, 2018, IBM Power Systems announced several significant updates and new software to support Power Systems management, operations, and security. This is an overview of those announcements. 1. New Enterprise...
read moreIDAA and IIAS – Enterprise Analytics and Acceleration Options
J Jeffrey Broderick Enterprise Architect Since the acquisition of Netezza in 2010 for their SQL accelerator technology, IBM has continued to enhance the ever-evolving technology with a keen focus on delivering enterprise data analytics. What started...
read moreWhy Businesses are Buying IBM LinuxONE
Marianne Eggett z Systems Solutions Consultant As Information Technology management face today’s challenges of exponential capacity growth, security breaches, and escalating costs, they fervently search for a better server solution. IBM has the...
read moreIBM Power Systems for AI Advanced Analytics – Getting Started
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems Director Power Systems Files, databases, data warehouses, data lakes, data oceans, big data… all that data, and more, is coming in every day. The burning question is, “What can I do with all that data?” The age of...
read moreIBM Announces Power Systems Enterprise 980 Server for Mission-Critical Workloads
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems Director Power Systems IBM Power Systems has announced the highest capacity, highest performing, and most reliable server in their POWER9 technology family, the IBM Power System E980. Announced on August 7, 2018, along...
read moreDifference between File Storage and Object Storage
Chris Dedham Senior Storage Solutions Architect When making technical comparisons in IT, using an analogy is often helpful. IBM did a presentation on object storage vs file storage, recently. The presenter’s analogy on these two types of data...
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