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Dave Santeramo Security Architect & Network and Security Leader, Mainline Marc Hobler Director, Information & Analytics, Mainline Inessa Gerber Director of Product Management, Denodo In today's digital age, data is king. It's no surprise that organizations rely...
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Red Hat Cloud Suite Makes OpenStack Work for You
Chris Minnis Enterprise Architect We’ve all heard the rumors, OpenStack is hard. To get it up and running in your environment is painful, and guaranteed to have a couple of false starts before you get it right. At least that’s what we’ve heard… Open source, especially...
vSphere Fault Tolerance – VMware’s Best Kept Secret?
Chris Minnis Enterprise Architect Most of you are quite familiar with VMware’s killer feature, vMotion. Many of you employ advanced features in your environment like Storage vMotion and Distributed Switch, but I see very few of our customers using vSphere Fault...
BlockChain: What Is This all About?
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems BlockChain is starting to gain attention. Let’s start with a simple view of what this “database” organization is about. To me, the easiest way to view this is that BlockChain is a database that acts as a shared general ledger. It...
SUSE Enterprise Linux for SAP Applications
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems SAP HANA is the in-memory database for distributed and converged implementations. Today, SAP HANA is a distributed database and will support Business Warehouse 7.4 (BW), as well as additional suites, such as ERP 6.0 EHP7, SRM 7.0...
Power Systems Announcements and NEW Extended Support for AIX 5.3
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems IBM announced the end of extended support for AIX 5.3, beginning April 30, 2016. With that announcement, they also announced a new extended support option if the AIX 5.3 applications were moved to POWER8 systems. This week, IBM...
Changes to IBM Power Systems Cloud Enablement
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems IBM recently announced changes to Cloud infrastructure on Power Systems. PowerVC, which is an OpenStack implementation optimized to Power Systems KVM and PowerVM, has a new release designated 1.3, with enhancements in dynamic...
Don’t Hate Meraki For Making Cisco Cool…
Chris Minnis Enterprise Architect Not just any kind of cool, relevant cool! Only the geekiest of us get excited by networking products, right? OK, but Meraki isn’t the normal networking product. Sure, Meraki makes familiar devices like wireless access points, Ethernet...
KVM! Do I even need VMware Anymore?
Chris Minnis Enterprise Architect First, let me say that I have been a VMware believer, evangelist and supporter since 2001. I still remember the first time I understood what the then singular product of ESX Server would do for my IBM x440. The virtualization and...
Cisco’s ACI or VMware’s NSX… Which way should I go?
Chris Minnis Enterprise Architect Network Virtualization… the Software Defined Network... both terms are touted as goals for all of our data centers to aspire to. Cisco is a beast in both the networking and server business, and VMware literally invented the X86...
Leveraging Your z Systems Investment – Optimizing Runtimes
For those customers that have embraced the most recent generations of the z Systems hardware, including the zEC12, zBC12, zEC13 and z13s, evaluating how to obtain the most “horsepower” from their investments should be a top priority. As many are aware, there...
Linux Implementation Options for Power Systems
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems I have received several questions on the various Linux implementation options for Power Systems. The implementation options basically involve installation of a bare metal system, a PowerKVM virtualized system, and PowerVM...
Enterprise Integration Strategy and Roadmap
Carlos L. Marques Enterprise Architect Background Is your organization fit and ready to take on and implement an Enterprise Integration Strategy? How do you implement SOA Services, Service Security, Application Integration, APIs? Where do you start first? In a...