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BLOG: Simplify Your Network and Security with Fortinet Secure SD-WAN
Dave SanteramoSecurity Architect & Network and Security Leader, Mainline According to Security Magazine, 99% of organizations expect identity-related compromises to their networks and systems this year. Unfortunately, this comes as little surprise when...
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IBM COS: Solutions for Economical Data Protection
Bryan Samson Strategic Alliances Manager “Just have it here on Monday, please,” I said. I hung up the phone and realized, I have no idea where the storage company is storing ALL of my possessions. I don’t have a crate number, a bay number, a floor number or...
Pure Storage All Flash Arrays – The Muscle car of storage
Chuck Desmond Systems Engineer What does my 1970 Chevelle SS Muscle car have in common with Pure Storage All Flash Arrays? The answer is quite simple: They both are fast, powerful and deliver a great experience! The Pure Storage solutions I’ve implemented over...
IBM Spectrum Scale and Virtualize TCT
Ian Wright Client Technical Sales Engineer In my last blog, I addressed Transparent Cloud Tiering (TCT) for the DS8000 and Mainframe environments. In this one, we’ll focus on Open System versions that are available on Spectrum Scale and Spectrum Virtualize....
IBM Announces Improved Usability in POWER COD Enablement
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems IBM recently announced a change in the acquisition and enablement of COD cores and memory. This change will significantly improve your usability and enablement of COD cores and memory for Power Systems. Historically, the Elastic...
Hybrid Cloud for IBM Z
Ian Wright Client Technical Sales Engineer Hybrid Cloud is a challenging topic from any angle. On one hand, our customers want to take advantage of the flexibility and scale that Cloud offers. On the other hand, they already have an existing infrastructure, and...
Autonomics for Db2 for zOS
Infrastructure software continues to increase in complexity, features and functions. The adoption and continued deployment of these technologies, throughout the enterprise, continue to tax the resources responsible for maintaining and supporting those same...
Nimble Cloud Volumes
Ian Wright Client Technical Sales Engineer Mainline Information Systems The cloud has certainly had an interesting impact on our industry. Many customers are ditching traditional IT environments, for at least some of their work, to take advantage of the...
Infinidat’s Preeminent Caching
Robert Young Senior Systems EngineerData Storage Services Mainline Information Systems For his next spin on a hyper-car, Christian von Keoenigsegg cranked it up to 11, and created Koenigsegg Direct Drive (KDD) for the Regera. The main purpose was to eliminate...
RedHat 7.4 Release for Power Systems
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems In August 2017, RedHat released RedHat Enterprise Linux 7.4 and its support for Power Systems. This release, while still at the 3.10 kernel level, has new features and add-ons that will provide both more support that customers have...
PVID Info and Manipulation – for the Advanced AIX Administrator
Ed Melton Enterprise Architect Whether you are new to AIX or have been working with it for decades, since the logical volume manager (LVM) was introduced in version 3.0 (1989), it remains one of the most powerful features (personal opinion?) of the operating system....
IBM Open Data Analytics for z/OS for Mainframe Data Access – An Evolution of Mainframe Apache Spark
Kurt Repholz VP zSystems Sales The mainframe houses most of the enterprise’s business data, even in today’s highly distributed industries. The mainframe is known for its extremely high transaction rates, and continues to be the most secure platform in the...
IBM Power Systems Offer New Management Options
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems IBM is consistently making innovations in the Power Systems market based on customer needs and technology enablement, along with a focus on “making things better” (my words). The latest announcements are focused on improved,...