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BLOG: Unveiling the Future: Highlights from the IBM Power Systems Modernization Summit
Rocket Software Rocket Software recently joined up with our esteemed partner, Mainline Information Systems, to co-host the “IBM Power Systems Modernization Summit”. The one-hour virtual summit was a resounding success, and we are thrilled to share key takeaways. As...
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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...
IBM Announces Power Systems Enterprise 980 Server for Mission-Critical Workloads
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems Director Power Systems IBM Power Systems has announced the highest capacity, highest performing, and most reliable server in their POWER9 technology family, the IBM Power System E980. Announced on August 7, 2018, along...
Difference between File Storage and Object Storage
Chris Dedham Senior Storage Solutions Architect When making technical comparisons in IT, using an analogy is often helpful. IBM did a presentation on object storage vs file storage, recently. The presenter’s analogy on these two types of data...
Cloud Storage for Backup & Archive
Chris Dedham Senior Storage Solutions Architect Cloud storage, in both public and private cloud configurations, has been a boon for organizations who are looking to transform their data management capabilities. Affordable, resilient, scalable...
IBM Announces Power Systems Enterprise 950 Server for Mission-Critical Workloads
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems Director Power Systems On August 7, 2018, IBM announced the Power Systems Enterprise 950 POWER9-based server, completing the POWER9 family, which began to rollout in September 2018. This high-performance, enterprise...
Software Defined Storage vs. Storage Virtualization
Bob Elliott VP Storage Solutions Software-Defined Storage - Definition In the search for greater simplification and more powerful storage management, many companies are looking to implement or expand the implementation of a software defined infrastructure....