The Changing Database Landscape.
Don’t be Left Behind.
Optimize Your Infrastructure With the New Features of IBM Power
Automation, Visibility, and Control. Cisco Prime Service Catalog.
Accelerate your IBM z Systems Analytics Environment
LinuxOne: The Linux Platform without Limits
How Actifio & Mainline Help Drive Software Agile Development
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Vlogs:
Fast, Efficient, Secure – Backup and Recovery with Dell EMC Data Domain
When it comes to Backup and Recovery, speed, efficiency, security and reliability are key to your business.
Many datacenters are still using tape backup – some not even encrypted – leaving the business struggling with lengthy RTO, unattractive RPO and security risks.
Jennifer Miles, Mainline Systems Engineer, explains how the Data Domain systems provide fast access to backup data, encryption of data at rest, deduplication, and fast restore and recovery.
- High-Speed Deduplication
- Seamless Integration
- Network-Efficient Replication
- Safety and Reliability
High Availability a management nightmare?
IBM Hyperswap makes zero downtime a whole lot easier.
Laura Tuller, Mainline Systems Engineer, explains the management issue of high availability and the benefits of IBM Hyperswap, a function of the IBM Storwize family.
Using the best of replication technologies – the non-disruptive volume move and remote copy features of IBM Metro Mirror, IBM Global Mirror and IBM Global Mirror with Change volumes – HyperSwap is the next phase of high availability.
- Application aware – say goodbye to scripting
- Maintains full independent copies at both sites
- Volumes are visible as a single object across both sites
Got Silos of IBMi data?
Break that barrier with Global Deduplication
Capacity limitations on backup appliances or VTLs left many companies with silos of IBMi data that are inefficient, management intensive, and costly. IBM ProtecTIER provides global deduplication, as well as fast access to data.
Jennifer Miles, Mainline Systems Engineer, explains the silo issue and the benefits of the ProtectTIER solution.
- Gain storage efficiency through deduplication
- Cost savings
- Faster Access to backup data
- Easier management of backup appliance
- Store 30+PB of data with 15:1 dedup ratio
Consolidate with IBM Spectrum Scale
Too many file servers and NAS making your head spin?
Most businesses have many, many file servers and NAS systems. They are hard to manage, keep current, and data is constantly being misplaced or misidentified.
Stephen Ulmer, Mainline Enterprise Architect, explains how IBM Spectrum Scale can be used to consolidate all file and object storage in an enterprise. Using the built-in support for rich policies, data can be moved to the most effective storage type, including tape or cloud.
- Reduce storage costs
- Improve security and management efficiency
- Increase performance
Drive Cost of Computing Down with CAPI Technology on IBM Power8
When was the last time someone said that performance didn’t matter? Today’s enterprises need to reduce computing cost, but improve performance in order to gain a competitive edge.
Ron Gordon, Mainline Director of Power Systems and IBM Power Champion, discusses IBM POWER8 CAPI technology for a wide range of application needs.
- Higher performance
- Increased throughput
- Lower cost
System i Backups taking too long?
Get done in a flash with IBM Flash Copy Toolkit
Full system saves in an IBM System i environment is challenging for 24×7 operations. Several hours of downtime is just not an option.
David Harlow, Mainline Services Architect, discusses how the IBM Full System Flash Copy Toolkit from IBM Lab Services allows System i customers to take full system saves with zero downtime, maintaining business critical 24×7 availability.
- Full system saves with no downtime
- Maintain 24×7 availability
- Reduce risk
Turbocharge the Agile Development process with Actifio
Creating copies of a production environment is complex, slow and expensive.
The fastest (and most expensive) way to create and use copies is through the array snapshot technologies. Other forms are data backups that can be restored as usable copies, replication and niche software solutions.
Steve Adil, Mainline Storage Architect, explains how Actifio transforms Agile Development by using a simple SLA process to create, maintain and use data copies.
- Reduces time to create and use data copies
- Uses a simple SLA process
- Can reduce the amount of capacity used for data copies by 80% or more
- Most flexible technology in the market
QuickCasts:
IBM POWER 8 for SAP HANA
Enabling Mission Critical Analytics
SAP HANA stores data in memory to deliver real-time or near-real-time transactions and analytics for mission critical applications. IBM POWER 8 systems running Linux deliver a highly available, enterprise strength, flexible system to serve and manage your SAP HANA databases.
Watch this Quickcast from Ron Gordon to learn how POWER 8 systems deliver:
- Mission critical platform for SAP HANA
- High Performance
- Flexibility with Tailored Datacenter Integration (TDI)
- Lower TCO than appliance-based solutions
Quickcast Duration: 6:31 Minutes
Recording Date: Oct 2017
Learning with Lattes
RED HAT VIRTUALIZATION
Time for another look
Red Hat products and services are secure, open, and trusted by more than 90% of the Fortune Global 500.
With low TCO, quick ROI and the security you need, it’s time to take another look at Red Hat Virtualization.
Quickcast Duration: 4:00 Minutes
Red Hat Virtulization is:
- Open
- Enterprise Ready
- High Performance
- Security
- Cross Platform
- Affordable
Recording Date: November 2016
Learning with Lattes
VMware Workspace ONE
Any Device…Any Application
End Users expect to bring their own device (BYOD) and have access to applications on demand.
How do you meet these challenges in today’s fast paced business climate?
Quickcast Duration: 4:20 Minutes
Tune into this QuickCast to hear from Ryan Hagen on how VMware Workspace ONE delivers:
- Mobile SSO
- Any app / Any device
- Conditional Access – Smart Security
- Secure Messaging and Content
Recording Date: November 2016
Discover IBM OpenPOWER LC servers
Servers born to run data intensive analytic workloads
OpenPOWER servers are different by design – engineered for seamless datacenter and cloud integration while achieving new insights from your data faster through acceleration.
Quickcast Duration: 6:00 Minutes
In this QuickCast Ron Gordon, Mainline Director of Power Systems, reviews the LC servers which enable businesses to:
- Solve data-intensive business challenges
- Drive datacenter efficiency
- Speed up innovation
Recording Date: October 2016
For SMB, Disaster Recovery Does Not Equal Business Continuity
So you’re a Small/Medium Business and you have a Disaster Recovery Plan. You’ve documented, you’ve tested, and you’ve trained your IT staff.
All is good, right? Wrong!
Quickcast Duration: 5:48 Minutes
Tune into this QuickCast as Chris Minnis, Mainline Enterprise Architect, discusses Business Continuity Planning, and why it’s critical for your business operation.
Learn why just having a DR plan is not necessarily enough.
Recording Date: May 2016
Does VSAN = Hyper-Convergence?
In today’s data center environment, we can virtualize CPU,
Memory, Networking and Storage.
Some would argue that hyper-converged solutions need to have all of these resources built on a single appliance, from a single vendor.
Quickcast Duration: 5:00 Minutes
This QuickCast explores VSAN in comparison to a hyper-converged solution. Are the two really equal?
Presented by: Chris Minnis, Solution Architect
Recording Date: April 2016
Is VDI Dead?
Employees work differently today – many are mobile, many are contractors or consultants, many applications are web-based, some are legacy.
Quickcast Duration: 6:00 Minutes
Tune into this QuickCast to hear from Chris Minnis,
Solution Architect, as he discusses:
– Device Management – BYOD, EOIT, Corporate Asset
– Application Management – SaaS, RYO, Off the Shelf
– End User Computing Policy
Recording Date: April 2016
Cisco HyperFlex
The hyper-converged solution we didn’t know we were waiting for?
Cisco HyperFlex is different. Really? Yes.
Quickcast Duration: 7:00 Minutes
With flexible scaling, continuous data optimization, and support for emerging applications, HyperFlex is a complete hyper-convergence system unifying Cisco’s fabric network and compute technology with a next generation data platform.
Presenter: Chris Minnis, Solution Architect
Recording Date: April 2016
IBM AIX 7.2 Announcement & AIX Roadmap
View this QuickCast for a brief overview of the IBM AIX 7.2 announcements and a look at the AIX roadmap.
Quickcast Duration: 9:41 Minutes
Ron Gordon, Mainline Director of Power Systems,
addresses the following topics:
– Next Generation Live Update
– Server-based flash caching
– LVM Mirroring to flash
– POWER7 and POWER8 support
Recording Date: March 2016
Recorded Webcasts:
The Changing Database Landscape. Don’t be Left Behind.
“By 2018, more than 70% of new in-house applications will be developed on an OSDBMS, commercial RDBMS instances will have been converted or will be in process..” – Gartner
Why is this happening?
- Because cost matters. Data growth is exploding so price is more important than ever.
- Modern solutions need higher performing data bases that RDBMS cannot meet.
- OSDBMS have matured into cost effective, practical alternatives to proprietary solutions, giving CIOs the confidence they need to make the change.
Do you have a plan?
Which OSDBMS is right for your organization? How will you make this change to give your business the competitive advantage it needs?
Optimize Your Infrastructure With the New Features of IBM Power
Are you fully aware of the latest information regarding IBM Power Systems? IBM made many important announcements recently at its Edge 2016 event in Las Vegas. These announcements can make a significant, positive impact on your company and its IT direction.
Recorded November 9th by Power Champion, Ron Gordon, who will share the most recent developments to IBM Power. His agenda includes POWER9, OpenPOWER LC, Cloud on Power, AIX, IBMi and time for Q&A. If you are not informed of these enhancements and announcements, your infrastructure may not be performing to its potential.
View this 30-minute webinar to learn about the latest announcements about IBM Power:
- New solution areas well served by Power Systems
- POWER9
- Updates to AIX, IBMi
- New features of OpenPOWER LC
- Enhancements to Cloud on Power
Automation, Visibility, and Control. Cisco Prime Service Catalog
To keep up with the fast-moving pace of business, your organization has to become more nimble. This means making it easier to manage and deploy next-generation applications, existing enterprise applications, and their underlying infrastructure. Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite helps you do that by providing the automation, visibility, and control you need to improve agility.
Start your automation journey with Cisco Prime Service Catalog: Replace multiple manual ordering methods with a simple tool that streamlines order and life cycle management.
Watch this 8 minute demo to see how easily you can:
- Order an application within a secure container
- Order application services
- Manage Devices, such as BYOD
- Track costs, such as chargeback
Recording Date: June 2016
LinuxONE: The Linux Platform without Limits
The platform of choice for Open source, Mobile, Blockchain, Analytics, DevOps, and Cloud solutions.
Unleash your open source apps and services with the Linux platform without limits. IBM LinuxONE™ is a Linux and open source superhero made for the app economy. Combining the best of enterprise Linux and open source, LinuxONE is the most efficient, powerful, secure Linux platform.
Mainline delivers end-to-end solutions, helping their customers with their most urgent and highly visible IT initiatives. Working with IBM, Mainline helps our clients leverage the value of LinuxONE and other Linux solutions, through assist, analyze, implement and post-implementation support.
Duration: 31:00 Minutes
View this webinar to learn about LinuxONE’s:
- Unprecedented performance
- Security
- Resiliency
- Flexibility
Recording Date: May 2016
Accelerate your IBM z Systems Analytics Environment
The IBM® DB2® Analytics Accelerator (IDAA) for z/OS is a high-performance appliance that integrates into the IBM z Systems® infrastructure and transforms your mainframe into a highly-efficient transactional and analytics processing environment.
IDAA enables you to exploit z Systems data where it originates, delivering new opportunities to improve efficiency and drive smarter outcomes.
Mainline delivers end-to-end solutions, helping their customers with their most urgent and highly visible IT initiatives. Working with IBM, Mainline helps our clients leverage the value of IBM z Systems, through assist, analyze, implement and post-implementation support.
Duration: 30:00 Minutes
View this webinar to learn how you can:
- Query data at high speeds.
- Extend the capabilities of DB2 for z/OS
- Lower operating costs
Recording Date: June 2016
How Actifio & Mainline Help Drive Software Agile Development
Featuring:
Brian Reagan, Managing Director, Blackthorne Consulting
Steve Adil, Disk Products Manager, Mainline Information Systems
This webinar hosted by Mainline and Actifio explores some of the most pressing issues in the world of application development, including test data management. We will discuss challenges facing teams moving towards a DevOps model and how new approaches and technologies such as Copy Data Virtualization can help:
- Accelerate release cycles by drastically reducing test data provisioning, enabling faster time to market
- Free test and development teams from the constraints of siloed infrastructure and processes with self-serve access to test data
- Release higher-quality code by testing through the dev cycle against real, current, high-fidelity production data that is masked according to business requirements
In addition, we’ll identify drivers and challenges of enterprise DevOps and discuss where the enterprise market stands with this new trend.
Recording Date: May 3, 2016
Infindiat – Storing the Future
Infinidat provides enterprise-class storage at a disruptive price point.
Duration: 24:00 Minutes
Through the use of its patented Infiniverse Storage ArchitectureTM (ISA), Infinidat employs commodity hardware to deliver highly efficient multipetabyte capacity in a single rack.
View this webinar to learn how Infinidat is changing the paradigm of enterprise storage while reducing operational overhead, complexity and cost.
Recording Date: February 2016
Proven. Converged. Cisco VersaStack.
Cisco joins us for this webinar to discuss how the VersaStack solution can help you accelerate your IT transformation while delivering dramatic improvements in operational efficiency and simplicity.
Duration: 24:00 Minutes
VersaStack brings new levels of ease, efficiency, and versatility to cloud, big data, and enterprise application deployments.
Mainline helps you put it all together.
Recording Date: March 2016
ARCHIVED WEBCASTS
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The Changing Database Landscape. Don’t be Left Behind.
“By 2018, more than 70% of new in-house applications will be developed on an OSDBMS, commercial RDBMS instances will have been converted or will be in process..” – Gartner
Why is this happening?
- Because cost matters. Data growth is exploding so price is more important than ever.
- Modern solutions need higher performing data bases that RDBMS cannot meet.
- OSDBMS have matured into cost effective, practical alternatives to proprietary solutions, giving CIOs the confidence they need to make the change.
Do you have a plan?
Which OSDBMS is right for your organization? How will you make this change to give your business the competitive advantage it needs?
Optimize Your Infrastructure With the New Features of IBM Power
Are you fully aware of the latest information regarding IBM Power Systems? IBM made many important announcements recently at its Edge 2016 event in Las Vegas. These announcements can make a significant, positive impact on your company and its IT direction.
Recorded November 9th by Power Champion, Ron Gordon, who will share the most recent developments to IBM Power. His agenda includes POWER9, OpenPOWER LC, Cloud on Power, AIX, IBMi and time for Q&A. If you are not informed of these enhancements and announcements, your infrastructure may not be performing to its potential.
View this 30-minute webinar to learn about the latest announcements about IBM Power:
- New solution areas well served by Power Systems
- POWER9
- Updates to AIX, IBMi
- New features of OpenPOWER LC
- Enhancements to Cloud on Power