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Open Cloud Management – Got your head in the Clouds?
Joseph Germinario Solution Architect I sure hope so! If not, here are some of the problems you will encounter. 1. Slow to respond to the business needs - Competitors will love you! 2. Development of new application will be slow - Competitors will love you! 3....
read moreIBM COS: Solutions for Economical Data Protection
Bryan Samson Flash Storage Sales Specialist, Brands “Just have it here on Monday, please,” I said. I hung up the phone and realized, I have no idea where the storage company is storing ALL of my possessions. I don’t have a crate number, a bay number, a floor...
read morePure Storage All Flash Arrays – The Muscle car of storage
Chuck Desmond Systems Engineer What does my 1970 Chevelle SS Muscle car have in common with Pure Storage All Flash Arrays? The answer is quite simple: They both are fast, powerful and deliver a great experience! The Pure Storage solutions I’ve implemented over...
read moreIBM Spectrum Scale and Virtualize TCT
Ian Wright Client Technical Sales Engineer In my last blog, I addressed Transparent Cloud Tiering (TCT) for the DS8000 and Mainframe environments. In this one, we’ll focus on Open System versions that are available on Spectrum Scale and Spectrum Virtualize....
read moreNetworking Segmentation in a computing and storage environment.
Rick Nelson Director of Network Solutions This is so funny… you just can’t make this stuff up! The other day my “smart” refrigerator was talking to my laptop trying to figure out my calendar, so it could remind me that we’re out of something on the third shelf....
read moreIBM Announces Improved Usability in POWER COD Enablement
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems IBM recently announced a change in the acquisition and enablement of COD cores and memory. This change will significantly improve your usability and enablement of COD cores and memory for Power Systems. Historically, the Elastic...
read moreHybrid Cloud for z
Ian Wright Client Technical Sales Engineer Hybrid Cloud is a challenging topic from any angle. On one hand, our customers want to take advantage of the flexibility and scale that Cloud offers. On the other hand, they already have an existing infrastructure, and...
read moreAutonomics for Db2 for zOS
J Jeffrey Broderick z Systems Architect Infrastructure software continues to increase in complexity, features and functions. The adoption and continued deployment of these technologies, throughout the enterprise, continue to tax the resources responsible for...
read moreNimble Cloud Volumes
Ian Wright Client Technical Sales EngineerMainline Information Systems The cloud has certainly had an interesting impact on our industry. Many customers are ditching traditional IT environments, for at least some of their work, to take advantage of the...
read moreInfinidat’s Preeminent Caching
Robert Young Senior Systems EngineerData Storage ServicesMainline Information Systems For his next spin on a hyper-car, Christian von Keoenigsegg cranked it up to 11, and created Koenigsegg Direct Drive (KDD) for the Regera. The main purpose was to eliminate...
read moreRedHat 7.4 Release for Power Systems
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems In August 2017, RedHat released RedHat Enterprise Linux 7.4 and its support for Power Systems. This release, while still at the 3.10 kernel level, has new features and add-ons that will provide both more support that customers have...
read moreLenovo and Intel’s New Processor Line
TJ Dowling Systems EngineerMainline Information Systems The Intel processor has come a long way. Its introduction in 1979 produced the 8088 (also called “eighty-eighty-eight” and iAPX88). The first computer I purchased was in 1981, and it had that processor...
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