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Bryan Samson Strategic Alliances Manager Do you talk “Religitics?” Religitics (Rē-Lĭdg’-ĭ-tĭcs) is my word for discussing religion or politics in mixed company. Mark Twain probably said it most eloquently when he compared man’s reasoning to worse than a...
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The DS8000 is different. What does that mean?
Bob Elliott VP Storage Solutions The DS8000 is architected very differently from other enterprise-class arrays. First, how is it different? And second, what does that difference mean to those who deploy it? The basic answer for how the architecture is different:...
Enterprise Modernizations – The Time is Now
The IT industry has been evangelizing the need to invest in existing business applications, application tooling and developer skill-sets. For many datacenters, this may not have been a priority—for others, they did choose to invest and continue to modernize,...
Impressions from Power Systems Technical University, June 2017 Orlando
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems The Power Systems Technical University was held in Orlando from June 5-9. The overall rating was 4.56 out of 5.0, so the attendees had a very positive view of the event. There were 1580 attendees for the Power University,...
Isn’t flash storage just storage?
Bryan Samson Strategic Alliances Manager “Isn't flash storage just storage,” a customer asked earlier this year. There have been quite a few articles written about the blurring line between specialty flash storage and general purpose storage products in the...
IBM z/OS Platform for Apache Spark – A new way to access Mainframe data
Kurt Repholz VP zSystems Sales Many customers have their data of record housed on the mainframe. It is both difficult and expensive to move this data to distributed applications. Products are installed to extract and transform mainframe data. Precious mainframe...
Power Systems Advantage in Machine Learning and Deep Learning… a View and an Opinion
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems Machine Learning/Deep Learning is having rapid growth, due to the performance of the latest computer technologies. Part of the rapid acceptance is Power Systems' extreme high performance, as well as integration of Nividia GPUs...
Geographical Dispersed Recovery for IBM Power Systems… a new HA Solution
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems High availability is key to any critical solution today, and in many cases, a regulatory requirement. IBM Power Systems has PowerHA System Mirror, as a widely-used high availability solution, currently used by most Power Systems...
IBM Tools for Power Systems
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems Those of us with Power Systems are aware of AIX, IBM i, and Linux, as well as management and support tools like PowerVM and PowerHA System Mirror. However, I see that many of the Power Systems users are not familiar with tools like...
The IDAA Value Proposition
The IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator (IDAA) has been a disruptive technology since it was introduced to the analytics space. An appliance, with its deep and seamless integrations with the premier relational database – DB2 for zOS – has been dramatically changing and...
SUSE and AIX Changes in Terms and Conditions
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems At IBM, changes happen quite often, and sometimes without much fanfare, warning, or major headlines. A couple of these happened recently. One change was the addition of a lease option to the AIX operating system. This addition does...
Here’s What to do If You Want to Virtualize Linux on Power Systems with KVM
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems Linux on Power is for sure gaining usage. With Power Systems’ performance and capacity, it is logical that in many instances the systems should be virtualized. There are two choices, PowerVM and KVM. I will only discuss KVM here,...
Backup-Data: Security and Availability with Data Domain
Fast, Efficient, Secure – Backup and Recovery with Dell EMC Data Domain ? 8:18 When it comes to Backup and Recovery, speed, efficiency, security and reliability are key to your business. Many datacenters are still using tape backup – some not even encrypted – leaving...