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IBM Announces DS8000 Enterprise Storage Gen 10
Laura Tuller Senior Systems Engineer Cyber Storage Solutions & Sustainability SW DS8000 Gen10 bolsters security, enhances connectivity, increases speed, adds compression with FCM4 technology. Prefer to watch a video? Click here Ladies and...
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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...
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: SAP HANA Recovery Environment Options
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BLOG: Selecting the Right Dell EMC Storage Solution
Bryan Samson Strategic Alliances Manager Have you ever noticed how storage shopping can be like walking into a car dealer and having too many choices? Cars come in many models, ranging from entry (compact) to high capacity (minivan) to performance (sports) and...
Cybersecurity Across OT/ICS Environments
Dave Santeramo Security Architect We have all read the headlines over the last few years. Energy grids, public utilities, transportation systems, and other critical infrastructure are increasingly being targeted for cyber threats by malicious actors. At the...
BLOG: Did IBM Put Artificial Intelligence in a Box?
Brad Miller Practice Director, Information & Analytics There seems to be an undertone across organizations to find the “silver bullet” for information insights; a quest for a technological solution that will bring meaningful and timely insights to consumers or...