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BLOG: Spot by NetApp – Leverage the Most Efficient Economics for Cloud Applications
Carlos L. Marques Enterprise Architect Spot was founded by Amiram Shachar based on a graduate student project he designed to save companies significant amounts of money on their cloud computing costs while maintaining availability using automation. While...
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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
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...
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: 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...
Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Z and LinuxONE
Andy Hartman Senior Consultant There have been some very impressive new features and improvements made over the last several years to IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE that make it an ideal platform for enterprise computing. One of the newer capabilities is not a new...