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Enterprise 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,...
read moreIsn’t flash storage just storage?
Bryan Samson North American Flash Sales Executive “Isn't flash storage just storage,” a customer asked earlier this year. There have been quite a few articles written about the blurring line between specialty flash storage and general purpose storage products...
read moreVersaStack 2.0 – A closer look at what 2017 brings
Ryan Hagen National Alliances Manager 5 years ago, you would have never heard of Cisco and IBM working so closely together, as they are now. The sale of IBM’s x86 business to Lenovo, a few years ago, has allowed them to leverage Cisco’s servers and data center...
read moreIBM z/OS Platform for Apache Spark – A new way to access Mainframe data
Marianne Eggett z Systems Solutions Consultant Many customers have their data of record housed on the mainframe. It is both difficult and expensive to move this data to distributed applications. Products are installed to extract and transform mainframe data....
read morePower Systems Advantage in Machine Learning and Deep Learning… a View and an Opinion
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems Machine Learning/Deep Learning is having rapid growth, due to the performance of the latest computer technologies. Part of the rapid acceptance is Power Systems' extreme high performance, as well as integration of Nividia GPUs...
read moreGeographical Dispersed Recovery for IBM Power Systems… a new HA Solution
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems High availability is key to any critical solution today, and in many cases, a regulatory requirement. IBM Power Systems has PowerHA System Mirror, as a widely-used high availability solution, currently used by most Power Systems...
read moreIBM Ranked #1 in Software Defined Storage – again
Steve Adil Disk Products Manager For the third consecutive year, IBM was ranked the number one vendor in software-defined storage controller software, according to results from International Data Corporation (IDC). As the intelligence in storage controller hardware...
read moreIBM z/VM Upgrade in Place Process
Andy Hartman Senior Consultant IBM introduced a process they call Upgrade in Place, for moving to a new release, when they introduced z/VM 6.3. At that time, the current release was z/VM 6.2, which was also the first release to support Single System Image(SSI). For...
read moreIBM Tools for Power Systems
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems Those of us with Power Systems are aware of AIX, IBM i, and Linux, as well as management and support tools like PowerVM and PowerHA System Mirror. However, I see that many of the Power Systems users are not familiar with tools like...
read moreIntroducing the Lenovo Storage DX8200D Powered by DataCore
Steve Adil Disk Products Manager DataCore and Lenovo offer high performance software defined storage The Lenovo Storage DX8200D Powered by DataCore appliance allows customers to have the benefits of software-defined technologies, to block and file storage for faster...
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