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Bryan Samson Strategic Alliances Manager Do you talk “Religitics?” Religitics (Rē-Lĭdg’-ĭ-tĭcs) is my word for discussing religion or politics in mixed company. Mark Twain probably said it most eloquently when he compared man’s reasoning to worse than a...
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NAS Consolidation with IBM Spectrum Scale
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iCOS and Panzura – Cloud Object Storage
Duration: 4:00 IBM Cloud Object Storage with Panzura Freedom NAS is Worth a Serious Look. Tackle the future of data, with the powerful combination of IBM Cloud Object Storage and Panzura Freedom NAS. Video Highlights Consolidate unstructured data Eliminate...
IBM Infosphere Virtual Data Pipeline
Duration: 2:49 IBM Infosphere Virtual Data Pipeline Data copy drives an enormous amount of cost in infrastructure and time management, as well as the risk that comes any time you do something that massive. IBM's infosphere virtual data pipeline is designed...
IBM Power Systems Marches on with IBM i Strategy and New IBM i 7.4.1 Release
Ron Gordon Director » Power Systems Recently, IBM Power Systems published an AIX Strategy and Roadmap whitepaper (see my blog article Is AIX Dead? IBM Publishes AIX Strategy and Roadmap Document). At the time the AIX paper was released, many people asked,...
Getting More out of Your SIEM Solution
Many CISOs and Security Architects are faced with the common issue of not seeing anticipated results from their SIEM or Next Gen Firewall. There are often too many alerts to determine meaningful results, or there could be pre-existing trouble. Video...
IBM Power Systems Software Announcements for 4th Quarter 2019
Ron Gordon Director » Power Systems Recently, IBM Power Systems (IBM Systems group) made several announcements of upcoming systems software updates with new functionality. These announcements are a combination of software support directly from...
Making LinuxONE Easy – IBM Hyper Protect for Virtual Servers
Kurt Repholz VP zSystems Sales Nearly 20 years ago, Linux on IBM’s mainframes arrived. I begin this adventure with Linux on IBM Z in 2004 when SUSE entered North America for the first time. During those early days, we were all experimenting with this technology...
Avoiding Business Disruption from Ransomware Attacks
Dave Santeramo Security Architect 2019 was supposed to be the year in which Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning made the Internet a safe place for all. One could not attend a conference or read a trade magazine where the value of adopting...
NAS Consolidation with IBM Spectrum Scale
Too many file servers and NAS making your head spin?Consolidate with IBM Spectrum Scale? 6:52Stephen Ulmer, Mainline Enterprise Architect, explains how IBM Spectrum Scale can be used to consolidate all file and object storage in an enterprise. Using the built-in...
Is AIX Dead? IBM Publishes AIX Strategy and Roadmap Document
Ron Gordon Director » Power Systems I have heard concerns that IBM is trending away from AIX. Just recently, IBM released a document titled IIBM AIX – An executive guide to the strategy and roadmap for the AIX Operating System for IBM Power Systems. I...
Red Hat AnsibleFest 2019-Recap-Atlanta
Keith Thuerk Storage Engineer Red Hat Ansible, the name synonymous with Information Technology (IT) Automation, just completed their largest confab known as AnsibleFest 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia (aka Hotlanta). This was the largest AnsibleFest ever,...
IBM Storage Utility Offering – Usage Based Billing to Provision Smarter
? 2:50 IBM Storage Utility Offering – Usage Based Billing to Provision Smarter Buy storage your way with a procurement choice, featuring usage-based billing, so your storage consumption and provisioning better align to your business needs. Video...