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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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Nutanix and IBM Power Systems Join
Ron Gordon Director » Power Systems Nutanix is the industry leader in providing hyperconverged systems. Hyperconvergence is the fundamental building block for enterprise cloud. IBM and Nutanix have joined forces to deliver an enterprise cloud...
IBM DS8000 Safeguarded Copy – Protecting Data
Bob Elliott VP Storage Solutions Customers are looking for help with new security challenges Cybertheft. Malware. Hackers. Ransomware. It seems to be coming from all angles. Remember WannaCry? It prompted sudden investments in Data Security. Mainline published...
Power Systems Software Update – 14 Things to Know
Ron Gordon Director » Power Systems It’s been a while since I talked about the IBM software support on Power Systems, including what is new and changing. Here, I will give you a high-level overview of the latest information regarding IBM Power...
Red Hat Ansible – Break Down Traditional IT Silos with Automation
Keith Thuerk Storage Engineer If you have spent any length of time in Information Technology (IT), you know that we all are being asked, continually, to do more with less (resources, budget, etc.) To put it another way, the workload only gets larger. So,...
HTAP – Hybrid DB Reduces Complexity and Cost and Drives Faster Innovation
Db2 for zOS is the foundation for transactional systems designed to support very high volume, high availability, security and encryption of data. Performance, reliability and throughput are essential key attributes of an industrial-strength database system....
IBM Power Systems Strategy
Ron Gordon Director » Power Systems Recently, I have been in several IBM sessions where the IBM Power Systems, now known as Cognitive Systems, has presented their strategy. As many of you have not had the opportunity to be at an IBM Cognitive Systems...
Power Linux is Special
Ron Gordon Director » Power Systems I recently read a blog that said Linux is Linux is Linux, and that one should not look at Linux distributions on IBM Power Systems as anything special or different. Well, I certainly take exception to that premise....
Gartner Moves Infinidat into the Leaders Magic Quadrant
Steve AdilDisk Products Manager What is Infinidat Infinidat is an Enterprise class storage array that changed the landscape when it entered the market in 2011. Infinidat’s founder and CEO, Moshe Yanai, brought with him a long history of bringing...
IBM Power Systems Announces Software Updates to Key Products
Ron Gordon Director » Power Systems On October 9, 2018, IBM Power Systems announced several significant updates and new software to support Power Systems management, operations, and security. This is an overview of those announcements. 1. New Enterprise...
IDAA and IIAS – Enterprise Analytics and Acceleration Options
Since the acquisition of Netezza in 2010 for their SQL accelerator technology, IBM has continued to enhance the ever-evolving technology with a keen focus on delivering enterprise data analytics. What started out as a basic appliance has grown into a powerful...
Why Businesses are Buying IBM LinuxONE
Kurt Repholz VP zSystems Sales As Information Technology management face today’s challenges of exponential capacity growth, security breaches, and escalating costs, they fervently search for a better server solution. IBM has the solution in the LinuxONE server...
IBM Power Systems for AI Advanced Analytics – Getting Started
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems Director Power Systems Files, databases, data warehouses, data lakes, data oceans, big data… all that data, and more, is coming in every day. The burning question is, “What can I do with all that data?” The age of...