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IBM Blockchain – The Hyperledger Solution
Marianne Eggett z Systems Solutions Consultant The emergence of a new methodology for business-to-business transacting is upon us. Blockchain is touted as the framework to eliminate the middleman in the supply chain process, while enabling a more secure...
read moreIBM Champions Program – Recognized IBM Leaders
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems Several years ago, IBM instituted a program called the IBM Champion Program. The IBM program recognizes non-IBM business leaders, typically from an IBM business partner, who promote, teach, and have a deep understanding of several...
read moreIBM Power Systems Hardware Management Console (HMC) Directions
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems Hardware Management Consoles (HMCs) are used by system administrators to manage/maintain Power Systems servers from a hardware perspective, as well as manage PowerVM LPARs (logical partitions). The management of the...
read moreIBM XIV Storage System Withdrawal – Know Your Replacement Options
Bryan Samson Strategic Alliances Manager Are you going through XIV storage withdrawals? If you’ve been a loyal IBM XIV storage system customer over the last 10 years, you may be feeling the side effects soon. On February 27, 2018, IBM announced the XIV...
read moreBlockchain Technology – Changing the way we do business
Marianne Eggett z Systems Solutions Consultant A new technology is emerging for the digital age, and whether you’re a CEO or an IT developer, you’ll want to pay close attention. Banks, Insurance companies, hospitals, governments and other industries are...
read moreCapacity Planning for IBM z/VM on IBM z Systems
Andy Hartman Senior Consultant IBM recently announced their new model of the IBM mainframe z14: The IBM ZR1 extends the performance and capacity enhancements of the z14 into a new server footprint, focusing on a lower entry point into the mainframe...
read moreIBM Storage Support for Containers
Chris Dedham Senior Storage Solutions Architect Containers are stand-alone, lightweight packages, that contain the necessary libraries and executables to run code. They are available for both Linux and Windows applications, and provide a runtime environment that can...
read moreIBM Netezza – New Version of NPS and Changes to Netezza Query History Database Load process
Itai Weiss Information Architect Alexander Goron Netezza Architect Using the latest NPS version We’ve been busy lately migrating our Netezza appliance customers to the new Mako appliances they bought. As we upgraded the old appliances to a more recent...
read moreBuild Cloud-Native Apps with IBM Cloud Private
Ian Wright Client Technical Sales Engineer In my previous blog post, I discussed containers and Kubernetes. In short, containers (which were made popular with technologies like Docker, LXC, OpenVZ, Linux VServer, etc.) are virtual constructs that hold...
read moreNew IBM Mainframe – z14 Model ZR1 – What you should know
Marianne Eggett z Systems Solutions Consultant The new z14 Model ZR1 (machine type 3907), announced April 10, 2018, is larger, faster and more secure than its IBM z Systems business class predecessors. The new server has 30 customer-characterizable cores...
read moreThe Tectonic Shift in IT
Keith Thuerk Storage Engineer There is a tectonic shift happening in Information Technology (IT) right now, where the industry is pushing generalist roles over specialist roles. This can be seen directly or indirectly in various IT organizations. An...
read moreIBM Spectrum Copy Data Management – Building a Private Cloud
Chris Dedham Senior Storage Solutions Architect In the past, we have viewed service level agreements (SLA) as the guiding light toward designing backup and DR systems to meet or exceed recovery objectives, in the event of an operational or data center...
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