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Detecting Cyber Attacks in Under a Minute: Introducing IBM FlashCore Modules Gen4
Laura Tuller Senior Systems Engineer Cyber Storage Solutions & Sustainability SW In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, data security is more critical than ever before. With cyber threats becoming increasingly sophisticated, organizations are facing...
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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: IBM DS8000 – The Market Leader for Mainframe Storage
Bob Elliott VP Storage Solutions In today’s storage system environment, most savvy storage people are familiar with the market leaders. Dell/EMC has the overall lead in external storage (27% share1 ). NetApp leads in file-based products. HPE, who leads in...
BLOG: Using IBM Cloud Pak for Security to Help Your Security Teams Address Risk
Dave Santeramo Security Architect Managing and maintaining a secure enterprise environment is becoming more and more challenging. The sheer number of security events that organizations must contend with are becoming increasingly complex. Threats such as...
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
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 International Program License Agreement IBM...
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...