by Ron Gordon | Jul 26, 2016 | Enterprise Systems
Ron Gordon Director – Power Systems IBM has made several “product change of direction” announcements over the past several months. They all seem to point to the adoption of OpenSource code as the future direction for several infrastructure and solution...
by Ron Gordon | Jul 19, 2016 | Enterprise Systems
Ron Gordon Director – Power Systems My teammate, Chris Minnis, wrote a great blog entitled “KVM! Do I Even Need VMware Anymore?” and in reading it, I was inspired to write a corollary. In Power Systems, there are now two virtualization technologies available in...
by Ron Gordon | May 28, 2016 | Enterprise Systems
Ron Gordon Director – Power Systems BlockChain is starting to gain attention. Let’s start with a simple view of what this “database” organization is about. To me, the easiest way to view this is that BlockChain is a database that acts as a shared general...
by Ron Gordon | May 25, 2016 | Enterprise Systems
Ron Gordon Director – Power Systems SAP HANA is the in-memory database for distributed and converged implementations. Today, SAP HANA is a distributed database and will support Business Warehouse 7.4 (BW), as well as additional suites, such as ERP 6.0 EHP7, SRM...
by Ron Gordon | May 20, 2016 | Enterprise Systems
Ron Gordon Director – Power Systems IBM announced the end of extended support for AIX 5.3, beginning April 30, 2016. With that announcement, they also announced a new extended support option if the AIX 5.3 applications were moved to POWER8 systems. This week,...
