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Part 2: Enterprise Integration Strategy Roadmap
Aligning Cloud Strategy With Business Outcomes Christopher Williamson, National Practice Lead for CIO Advisory Services at Mainline, shares insight into how Mainline helps clients use the cloud as part of their Enterprise Integration Strategy. How does...
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Best IT Infrastructure for SAP HANA
? 2:25 Best IT Infrastructure for SAP HANA By 2025, SAP customers who are not already on SAP HANA need to select an infrastructure and migrate their business-critical systems into production Video Highlights Platform requirements for SAP HANA...
NAS Consolidation with IBM Spectrum Scale
? 1:13 NAS Consolidation with IBM Spectrum Scale Learn 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,...
iCOS and Panzura – Cloud Object Storage
? 4:00 IBM Cloud Object Storage with Panzura Freedom NAS is Worth a Serious Look. Tackle the future of data, with the powerful combination of IBM Cloud Object Storage and Panzura Freedom NAS. Video Highlights Consolidate unstructured data Eliminate copy...
IBM Infosphere Virtual Data Pipeline
? 2:49 IBM Infosphere Virtual Data Pipeline Data copy drives an enormous amount of cost in infrastructure and time management, as well as the risk that comes any time you do something that massive. IBM's infosphere virtual data pipeline is designed to...
IBM Power Systems Marches on with IBM i Strategy and New IBM i 7.4.1 Release
Ron Gordon Director » Power Systems Recently, IBM Power Systems published an AIX Strategy and Roadmap whitepaper (see my blog article Is AIX Dead? IBM Publishes AIX Strategy and Roadmap Document). At the time the AIX paper was released, many people asked,...
Getting More out of Your SIEM Solution
? 2:00 Many CISOs and Security Architects are faced with the common issue of not seeing anticipated results from their SIEM or Next Gen Firewall. There are often too many alerts to determine meaningful results, or there could be pre-existing trouble....
Pervasive Encryption: Linux on Z and Data at Rest
Andy Hartman Senior Consultant IBM’s Pervasive Encryption on IBM Z and LinuxOne servers takes many forms. It provides encryption of “Data in Flight” for SSL/TLS transactions in and out of the server, and it provides encryption of “Data at Rest”....
IBM Power Systems Software Announcements for 4th Quarter 2019
Ron Gordon Director » Power Systems Recently, IBM Power Systems (IBM Systems group) made several announcements of upcoming systems software updates with new functionality. These announcements are a combination of software support directly from...
Making LinuxONE Easy – IBM Hyper Protect for Virtual Servers
Marianne Eggett IBM Z Solutions Consultant Nearly 20 years ago, Linux on IBM’s mainframes arrived. I begin this adventure with Linux on IBM Z in 2004 when SUSE entered North America for the first time. During those early days, we were all...
Avoiding Business Disruption from Ransomware Attacks
Dave Santeramo Security Architect 2019 was supposed to be the year in which Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning made the Internet a safe place for all. One could not attend a conference or read a trade magazine where the value of adopting...
NAS Consolidation with IBM Spectrum Scale
Too many file servers and NAS making your head spin?Consolidate with IBM Spectrum Scale? 6:52Stephen 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...
Is AIX Dead? IBM Publishes AIX Strategy and Roadmap Document
Ron Gordon Director » Power Systems I have heard concerns that IBM is trending away from AIX. Just recently, IBM released a document titled IIBM AIX – An executive guide to the strategy and roadmap for the AIX Operating System for IBM Power Systems. I...