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Rubrik Acquires Laminar: Promises Industry’s First Complete Cyber Resilience Offering
Jon Beeler Solutions ArchitectMainline Cyber Storage Practice Recently Palo Alto-based Rubrik announced their acquisition of Laminar, a leading manufacturer of cloud-native, DSPM (Data Security Posture Management) software. Mike Tornincasa, Rubrik Chief...
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IBM Champions Program – Recognized IBM Leaders
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems Several years ago, IBM instituted a program called the IBM Champion Program. The IBM program recognizes non-IBM business leaders, typically from an IBM business partner, who promote, teach, and have a deep understanding of several...
IBM Power Systems Hardware Management Console (HMC) Directions
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems Hardware Management Consoles (HMCs) are used by system administrators to manage/maintain Power Systems servers from a hardware perspective, as well as manage PowerVM LPARs (logical partitions). The management of the...
Tips on IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) Standby Storage Engine
? 3:31IBM added a spare storage engine to the SAN Volume Controller (SVC) to improve availability and performance. The new standby node reduces the impact of an SVC engine in a cluster going offline.Laura discuses some tips you should know to take...
Real-Time Business Decisions with IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator
Make Real-Time Business Decisions with IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator (IDAA) for z/OSThere’s truth and good reason in the old adage “keep your data closest to its source”.? 6:05But, contrary to that performance and security best practice, many data centers running IBM...
Improve Storage Efficiency with Copy Data Management
Backup, Disaster Recovery, Data Protection, Dev/Test, Analytics and related data sprawl... Today’s data center, on average, has a 10x data inflation of Primary Storage due to Backup, Disaster Recovery, Data Protection, Dev/Test, Analytics and related data...
IBM z Systems Migration – Minimize IPLA and MLC Software License Charges
IBM System z Migration – IPLA and MLC Licenses Unraveled? 4:10When planning an IBM z System migration, you need to understand the potential financial impact of IBM IPLA (International Program License Agreement) and MLC (Monthly License Charge) software...
IBM High Performance Computing powered by Nvidia
Get Business Insights Cheaper and Faster with IBM High Performance Computing powered by Nvidia? 8:33New workloads such as Machine Learning (Artificial Intelligence) and Analytics are delivering business insight to fuel growth, but data centers must have...
IBM DRAID Explained and Best Practices
IBM Distributed RAID (DRAID) improves RAID performance and availability compared to Traditional RAID (TRAID).So why is this important? With today’s larger storage drives, minimizing rebuild time is critical, to avoid a double-drive failure and possible...
How to Run a Successful IT Automation Project
IT Automation offers the opportunity of efficiency and cost saving to business processes.With so many functional areas to apply IT Automation, every company should be at least considering, if not planning, their long-term strategy around automated...
IBM XIV Storage System Withdrawal – Know Your Replacement Options
Bryan Samson Strategic Alliances Manager Are you going through XIV storage withdrawals? If you’ve been a loyal IBM XIV storage system customer over the last 10 years, you may be feeling the side effects soon. On February 27, 2018, IBM announced the...
IBM Power Systems upgrade High Performance Systems for Cognitive and AI workloads
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems IBM Power Systems has introduced two new high-performance computing servers, with unprecedented capabilities, in areas such as deep learning, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (all of which are based on open...
IBM Storage Support for Containers
Chris Dedham Senior Storage Solutions Architect Containers are stand-alone, lightweight packages, that contain the necessary libraries and executables to run code. They are available for both Linux and Windows applications, and provide a runtime environment...