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BLOG: Implementing Ansible Execution Nodes on Linux on IBM Z Mainframes
Ian WrightSystems Engineer Update: On 12/7/23 Red Hat and IBM announced that the Ansible Automation Platform is generally available on IBM Power and IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE. There are many benefits for using Ansible Automation Platform with the IBM zSystems...
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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...
IBM Netezza – New Version of NPS and Changes to Netezza Query History Database Load process
Alexander GoronNetezza Architect Using the latest NPS versionWe’ve been busy lately migrating our Netezza appliance customers to the new Mako appliances they bought. As we upgraded the old appliances to a more recent version of the NPS, we found that IBM...
Build Cloud-Native Apps with IBM Cloud Private
Ian Wright Client Technical Sales Engineer In my previous blog post, I discussed containers and Kubernetes. In short, containers (which were made popular with technologies like Docker, LXC, OpenVZ, Linux VServer, etc.) are virtual constructs that...
New IBM Mainframe – z14 Model ZR1 – What you should know
Kurt Repholz VP zSystems Sales The new z14 Model ZR1 (machine type 3907), announced April 10, 2018, is larger, faster and more secure than its IBM z Systems business class predecessors. The new server has 30 customer-characterizable cores running at 5.2GHz speeds...
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...