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 site failure....
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...
Andy Hartman Senior Consultant IBM recently announced support for OpenStack Newton in IBM’s z/VM Cloud Manager Appliance (CMA). This new support is available with IBM z/VM 6.4. With this new support, IBM continues to provide increasing capabilities within CMA, over...
Ron Gordon Director – Power Systems IBM recently announced changes to Cloud infrastructure on Power Systems. PowerVC, which is an OpenStack implementation optimized to Power Systems KVM and PowerVM, has a new release designated 1.3, with enhancements in dynamic...
Andy Hartman Senior Systems Engineer There are many ways to deploy and virtualize Linux servers on z Systems. They range from very basic cloning techniques, and simple Linux distribution built in scripting, all the way up to full featured Cloud deployment services....
Ron Gordon Director of Power Systems IBM Power Systems recently announced new functionality in IBM Cloud Orchestrator, IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack, PowerVC, and the new Novalink component of PowerVM. This clearly demonstrates Power System’s direction in...