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2:00 IBM Sterling Supply Chain Business Network for Supply Chain Resiliency Efficiently and securely connect and exchange data with customers, suppliers, and trading partners. Modernize supply chain processes with this cloud-based SaaS platform. Video...
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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...
IBM z15 – September 12, 2019 Announcement
Kurt Repholz VP zSystems Sales IBM announced the new enterprise system that fits nicely in a 19” rack form factor, resulting in a 25% reduction in space from the z14. Now, the enterprise IBM Z system resides with other data center servers. IBM included 102...
Infinidat Neutrix Cloud
? 2:25 Infinidat Neutrix Cloud – Move your applications seamlessly from cloud to cloud Infinidat Neutrix Cloud storage offering brings flexibility to move your application seamlessly from cloud to cloud but it also brings you enterprise resiliency that you...
IBM Cloud Object Storage and Panzura: Manage the exponential growth of unstructured file data
Ian Wright Systems Engineer Network Attached Storage (NAS), for many years, was the center of the world of unstructured data with CIFS/SMB (used primarily by Windows) and NFS (used primarily by Unix and Linux systems). IBM had (and still has)...
IBM Open Data Analytics for zOS – Highly Optimized Analytics Environment
IBM Open Data Analytics for zOS – Highly Optimized Analytics Environment IBM Open Data Analytics for zOS (IzODA) provides a comprehensive ability to leverage two of the most popular open source toolsets currently in use, by data scientists and application developers,...
NVMe (Non Volatile Memory Express)
? 2:45 Improve performance with NVMe solid state disk storage and NVMe-oF (over fabric). Eliminate the legacy SCSI and SAS queue bottleneck with NVMe high speed performance. Video Highlights NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) Faster performance for...
Get Ready for IBM Power Systems Technical University Las Vegas: A Power Systems Announcement Overview to Help you Build your Agenda
Ron Gordon Director » Power Systems Get Ready for IBM Power Systems Technical University Las Vegas: A Power Systems Announcement Overview to Help you Build your Agenda Power Systems Technical University, which is the Power Systems component of the...
Power Systems in the IBM Cloud – Enterprise Level Cloud Support
Ron Gordon Director » Power Systems Power Systems in the IBM Cloud – Enterprise Level Cloud Support For decades, IBM has released announcements on Tuesdays. If you followed IBM activities, you were accustomed to the Tuesday announcements – like...
IBM Data Reduction Pools
? 1:17 Data Reduction Pools Contain the cost of expensive flash storage with Data Reduction Pools. With flat and declining budgets you have to do more with what's on the floor. Video Highlights IBM Spectrum Virtualize Typical savings of 2 to 5x 40%...
IBM DS8880F all-flash storage
? 1:30 IBM Form Factor DS8882F The IBM DS8882F, a rack mountable DS8000. Perfect for small distributed IBM i and mainframe customers. Video Highlights All Flash 368 terabytes of raw capacity Great for colocations Integrates with IBM i, IBM z14 Model...