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Rubrik Acquires Laminar: Promises Industry’s First Complete Cyber Resilience Offering
Jon Beeler Solutions ArchitectMainline Cyber Storage Practice Recently Palo Alto-based Rubrik announced their acquisition of Laminar, a leading manufacturer of cloud-native, DSPM (Data Security Posture Management) software. Mike Tornincasa, Rubrik Chief...
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Turbonomic: What’s in a name?
Turbonomic may be a new name you are hearing out there, but they are certainly not new to the world of virtualization and cloud. Formerly known as VMturbo, Turbonomic has rebranded itself in a move to differentiate itself from VMware, and to clearly state that their...
PowerLinux Distributions and Support Software Expand
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems The rapid growth of Linux and Open Source code is incredible. At the same time, demands on Linux applications needing to support mission-critical work and high performance is being matched by Power Systems, with the advent of new...
IBM and Red Hat Press Release for Power Systems
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems At Edge 2016 in Las Vegas, IBM and Red Hat made a pretty significant press release, and I bet many of us missed it. To paraphrase the press release in a few words, IBM and Red Hat announced continued cooperation and technology...
New Power Systems Cloud Focused Models
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems At Edge 2016 in Las Vegas, IBM announced the availability of Power Systems specifically oriented for private and hybrid cloud environment needs. These models are based on the IBM Enterprise Systems models 870 and 880 (and, I would...
IBM FlashSystem A9000: “New-er” All-Flash Solution: Next Gen XIV
Bryan Samson North American Flash Sales Executive When thinking of modern storage, people think of purpose built all-flash arrays. After all, vendors, analysts and customers agree, beyond the performance boosts, and through the efficiency benefits, there is no reason...
Why do I love Zerto? Let Me Count the Ways…
Chris Minnis Enterprise Architect Love? Really? Yes. We’ve been partners of Zerto’s for years now and, while their products are great across the board, there are a few scenarios where they just excel and make a great discussion topic. Here’s a few: Simple backup and...
IBM Spectrum Protect now what?
Diana Wozniak-Flack Director of Service Delivery By now, most of you have survived your upgrade from TSM 5.x to TSM 6.x, or maybe you upgraded directly from TSM 5.x to TSM 7.x. Well done... take a moment to congratulate yourself. It was certainly not a task for the...
IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments deep dive
Diana Wozniak-Flack Director of Service Delivery Although the benefits are numerous of IBM Spectrum Protect are numerous, this posting focuses on one that is universally embraced by Mainline clients; Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments. Today, the majority of...
Don’t forget Remote Desktop Services… Old School VDI…
Chris Minnis Enterprise Architect Just over 20 years ago, Citrix released WinFrame, as one of the first alternatives to traditional desktops. Even back then, we wanted to free employees from working at a desk! Back then, Citrix licensed Windows NT 3.51 from Microsoft...
Horizon 7 from VMware – Is it all about Blast Extreme?
Chris Minnis Enterprise Architect Anybody that takes time to look for what’s new in Horizon 7 will be faced with an introduction to their new high-performance access protocol, Blast Extreme. The normal who, what, when, where, and why questions often follow. Let me try...
Time for VSAN? VMware’s Virtual SAN Assessment…
Chris Minnis Enterprise Architect Storage virtualization has been around for a long time now. Over the last 10 years, the technology has taken on many forms, and many products have been released to varying degrees of success. What started out as simple NFS or iSCSI...
IBM Announces POWER9 Technology
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems IBM announced and previewed the POWER9 technology at the annual Hot Chips meeting in California on August 23, 2016. This much-awaited announcement was well met and has been called a breakthrough in technology. IBM announced 4 chips,...