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BLOG: Advantages of Dell EMC PowerProtect DD
Keith Thuerk Storage Engineer Are you using the post-lockdown world to move out of the status quo within your data center? How are you addressing complexity in the backup realm? Could you benefit from an appliance that handles all workloads, including container...
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BLOG: Advantages of Dell EMC PowerProtect DD
Keith Thuerk Storage Engineer Are you using the post-lockdown world to move out of the status quo within your data center? How are you addressing complexity in the backup realm? Could you benefit from an appliance that handles all workloads, including container...
BLOG: Data Management Using IBM Cloud Pak for Data and AI
Brad Miller Practice Director, Information & Analytics Back in the 90s when the rapid expansion of physical data warehouses came into its own with the growth of enterprise data, the vision was often to move/replicate all relevant information into a single...
BLOG: IBM Spectrum Virtualize Software 8.3.1 Updates
Laura Tuller Senior Systems Engineer – Storage Solutions The IBM Spectrum Virtualize 8.3.1 release was chock-full of improvements and you’ll notice the changes to the names of the products. No longer are we referring to anything as the ‘Storwize’ family and are...
BLOG: NetApp StorageGRID – Efficiently Scale Storage Capacity and Data Management Across On-Premise and Multi-Cloud Storage
Carlos L. Marques Enterprise Architect With the continued growth of unstructured data, more and more of our customers are challenged with how to store it and provide continuous access. Plus, they ask “How can you back it up? Or can you even back it up?” As we...
BLOG: Benefits and Use Cases for IBM Cloud Pak for Applications
Joe Guthart Software Sales Specialist Container technology continues to fundamentally alter the development of software in today’s information technology environment. Who hasn’t heard about containers in the IT world? Nearly all of us have, and the...
Software Licensing on System z – PassPort Advantage – Part 3
Jeffrey Broderick - Enterprise Architect This article is part three of a three-part series on the complicated and confusing topic of software licensing. Earlier this year, we published Software Licensing on IBM Z System: Part 1, Monthly License Charge Software and...
BLOG: IBM Announces Updates to Power Systems Infrastructure Software Portfolio Supporting Hybrid Cloud Automation, Improved Security, Business Continuity and High Availability
Ron Gordon Director » Power Systems On October 6, 2020, IBM announced significant updates to almost the entire Power System infrastructure software portfolio. Overall the changes and improvements designed to support customer needs can be viewed as upgrades to...
vSphere Optimization… Get Healthy / Stay Healthy
Chris Minnis Enterprise Architect You want to upgrade to VMware’s current vSphere release, but you still haven’t handled all the prerequisites. Or maybe, you’re just not sure where you stand on that list of prerequisites, in the first place. Is it time to replace the...
Blog: IBM 2020 Virtual TechU Oct 26-29, 2020
Ron Gordon Director » Power Systems Virtual events and conferences are part of the new normal, and the IBM Systems Technical University is no exception. It has been scheduled for October 26-29, 2020 in a new virtual edition format using a virtual presentation...
BLOG: Container Storage – The Use and Benefit of Persistent Storage in Your Data Center
Chris Dedham Solutions Architect Storage architecture has evolved over the decades as compute power and data capacity demands have increased substantially. Meanwhile, compute power delivery methods within operating systems have gained efficiencies by moving...
BLOG: Commvault Intelligent Data Management: For Cloud, Containers, PaaS, and SaaS
Chris Minnis Enterprise Architect Once upon a time in IT, you simply chose new services and applications to provide to your business. Perhaps you considered the platform or even the operating system, but you knew WHERE workload executions would occur - at YOUR...
VLOG: IBM z on Cloud – Part 2: Why IBM z for On Premise cloud
7:19 IBM Z on Cloud Part 2: Why IBM z for On Premise cloud Part 2 of this 2 part vlog explains how this platform supports open source software and reduces the cost and complexity for cloud environments. Video Highlights Red Hat OpenShift for Z IBM...