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Cohesity – Backup and Recovery Game Changer
Keith Thuerk Storage Engineer Modern Information Technology (IT) has a severe problem… it’s the 800-pound Gorilla in all data centers - oh yeah… I am calling out your legacy Backup and Recovery offering. Sure, your backup and recovery plan started...
Comparing SAP HANA on Power Systems on Prem vs x86 and Cloud
Ron Gordon Director » Power Systems SAP is a major force in Enterprise computing, as it is usually the life blood of the company. Customers who choose SAP, and now SAP HANA, use it to run their ERP, CRM, analytics, inventory, finances, etc. So, as...
IBM Is Making Artificial Intelligence Easier and Renaming Solutions for AI
Ron Gordon Director » Power Systems I was recently at a great AI workshop put on by IBM. IBM went over their AI strategy, directions and futures, as well as gave us hands-on labs to run the key products in the IBM AI portfolio. AI Workshop Hands-On Labs In...
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) with Spectrum Virtualize and Amazon Web Services
Ian Wright Client Technical Sales Engineer Putting your DR in the cloud will certainly be a very attractive option to consider when allocating funds for a resilient business. Automation, Procedures and IT Infrastructure Disaster Recovery can be...
My Reflections on Power Systems Topics at IBM THINK 2019
Ron Gordon Director » Power Systems IBM Think 2019 in San Francisco was incredible for several reasons, including the approximately 32,000 people in attendance with over 4000 sessions conducted in over 10 venues. And, if current plans hold with IBM,...
Flash Storage Explained in a Flash
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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....