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BLOG: Transactional IO Explorations
Robert Young Storage Architect What is Transactional IO and why is this important? To understand what IO throughput and latency should be in each situation makes us better at troubleshooting and grows us in design capability. We become the go-to person in a myriad of...
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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,...
The Evolving Mainframe – Approaching the Analytics Community
Kurt Repholz VP zSystems Sales The new z14, announced July 17, 2017, is larger, faster and more secure than its mainframe predecessors. IBM is focusing this server for enterprise analytics. Let’s see how. For z/OS Mainframes Analytics on z/OS is BIG! STOP...
PureStorage – Big Plans for Big Data – Reach for the Sky!
Bryan Samson Strategic Alliances Manager “Reach for the Sky,” says Woody in Toy Story, as I watch with my family and wonder at the skill of Pixar animators, the complex software and massive amount of hardware it took to make this film back in 1995. By the way,...