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VLOG: IBM Z on Cloud Part 1: Why IBM z for On Premise cloud
7:19 IBM Z on Cloud Part 1: Why IBM z for On Premise cloud The IBM Z mainframe server is designed for data privacy, security and resiliency, making it an optimal platform choice for on-premise and hybrid cloud. Part One of this two-part vlog...
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BLOG: IBM Power Virtual Servers in the IBM Cloud – Enhancements
Ron Gordon Director » Power Systems The availability of Power Virtual Servers in the IBM Cloud was announced last year, providing enterprise-level cloud services support of IBM Power Systems for AIX and IBM i workloads. This introduced the potential for...
Blog: Self-Service Application Development Using IBM Cloud Paks on IBM Z
Marianne Eggett IBM Z Solutions Consultant Our two most recent IBM Z blogs, 2020 - The Year for Private Cloud on IBM Z and Benefits of IBM Z for Private Cloud, introduced IBM Cloud Paks and Red Hat OpenShift with the underlying Kubernetes open source software...
VLOG: SAP HANA Recovery Environment Options
6:47 SAP HANA Recovery Environment Options Learn about options available for recovering SAP HANA databases. Video Highlights Fast Restart Native Storage Extensions (NSE) Optane Persistent Memory
VLOG: Changing from IBM Storage Insights to IBM Storage Insights Pro
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VLOG: Dell Technologies PowerStore
2:00 Dell Technologies PowerStore Video Highlights Intelligence and Adaptability Run virtualized workloads directly on the appliance Data Intensive Apps Single Architecture for File, Block, and VMware vVols
IBM Power Systems Enhances the POWER9 Scale-Out Servers
Ron Gordon Director » Power Systems On July 14, IBM announced significant enhancements to the IBM Power Systems Scale-Out (SO) product line of the S914, S922, and S924 POWER9 servers. The new upgraded Power9 systems will begin shipping July 24, 2020. The servers...
Dell EMC PowerStore – Flexible Consumption, Guaranteed
Bryan Samson Strategic Alliances Manager Toilet paper. Who knew that would be the something we would worry about in 2020? The unexpected shortage caused people to panic and buy far more than they needed, which left many others without. This buy-ahead mentality...
VLOG: HPE InfoSight: AI-Driven for Intelligent Operations
3:25 HPE InfoSight: AI-Driven for Intelligent Operations Video Highlights Increases Infrastructure availability with Advanced Machine Learning Predicts and remediates 86% of issues without human intervention Cross Stack Analytics to determine issue in array or outside...
BLOG: Linux on IBM z15 and IBM LinuxONE III Mainframe Systems
Andy Hartman Senior Consultant With the recent release of the new IBM z15 T02 and the LinuxONE III LT2, it is a good time to look at the benefits that can be gained with Linux workloads run on these mainframe systems. These two new systems are the next set of...
BLOG: Linux on IBM z15 and IBM LinuxONE III Mainframe Systems
Andy Hartman Senior Consultant With the recent release of the new IBM z15 T02 and the LinuxONE III LT2, it is a good time to look at the benefits that can be gained with Linux workloads run on these mainframe systems. These two new systems are the next set of...
VLOG: IBM Storage Class Memory (SCM)
1:23 IBM Storage Class Memory (SCM) Storage-Class Memory (SCM) is ultra-low latency, persistent storage (NVMe) which combines the performance benefits of solid-state memory with the lower cost of conventional hard-disk magnetic storage. Laura Tuller, Mainline...
BLOG: NextGen Storage Virtualization
Robert Young Sr. Systems Engineer Data Storage Services Computing has evolved from Mainframe to Client-Server to the Third Platform, or Platform 3 as a co-worker (shout-out to Cuz!) described this computing paradigm. Basically, Platform 3 is mobile and cloud analytics...