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4:50 Dell EMC PowerStore 500T The PowerStore 500T is a new cost-effective entry model perfect for deploying Edge solutions. In this video, Bryan Samson discusses the benefits of this new unified storage platform. Video Highlights Cost effective entry...
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The Tectonic Shift in IT
Keith Thuerk Storage Engineer There is a tectonic shift happening in Information Technology (IT) right now, where the industry is pushing generalist roles over specialist roles. This can be seen directly or indirectly in various IT organizations. An...
IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management – Building a Private Cloud
Chris Dedham Senior Storage Solutions Architect In the past, we have viewed service level agreements (SLA) as the guiding light toward designing backup and DR systems to meet or exceed recovery objectives, in the event of an operational or data...
Hybrid Data Management Platform
Ken Gross Mainframe Software Specialist An updated view of the IBM® Db2® Analytics Accelerator for z/OS® I am sure many are familiar with the IBM® Db2® Analytics Accelerator for z/OS® as we have known it to advance, over the years, out of the Netezza...
IBM Data Virtualization Manager – Easy access to IBM Mainframe Data
Kurt Repholz VP zSystems Sales You have a mainframe. It runs your key business applications. Wouldn’t it be great to access that data easily and quickly? Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there was a tool that could join diverse types of mainframe data to distributed...
Development Modernization with Web Services and JSON
IT organizations still rely heavily on COBOL applications to support their core business functions. In today’s environment, it is essential to maximize the investment in business logic, while continuing to expose the business logic contained within those environments,...
Data Protection solutions on and off premise
You have firewalls. You’re feeling confident that the data stored on your premise is safe, and the real worry is when data leaves the building. Right? Wrong! The paradigm that onsite data is safe has quickly changed. At a minimum, I hope you are encrypting...
POWER9 Performance and Performance Modes
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems Now that POWER9 systems have been announced and shipped, I think the next question on everyone’s mind is performance. IBM has published rPerf and CPW data, in the latest Power Performance report, but I think some...
LinuxONE
Kurt Repholz VP zSystems Sales Take a moment to think like a CIO. Can you imagine that the CIO wants a reliable infrastructure, secure from hackers, that’s easy to install, easy to maintain and can quickly handle the businesses growth. Oh, yes, and economical....
What is Kubernetes – Introducing IBM Cloud Private Part I
Ian Wright Client Technical Sales Engineer Greetings True Believers, I wanted to write a blog about IBM Cloud Private (and that is coming soon), but it occurred to me that many people out there may not have a full understanding of what one of the...
IBM Announces POWER9 Scale-out Servers
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems On February 13, IBM announced the POWER9 scale-out server family. The general availability of these systems will be March 20, 2018. The models follow the Power Systems naming convention where S924 translates as 9 –...
My Crystal Ball for Power Systems in 2018
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems Welcome to the new year, and to a year that I think will really progress the value of Power Systems. Let me give you my outlook, after gazing into my “Power Systems crystal ball,” recognizing that sometimes the crystal...
Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerability on Power Systems
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems If you’re in IT, the recognition and concerns about the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities from the past couple of days are well known to you. At a high level, Meltdown is the vulnerability that allows applications,...