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IBM Power Systems Announce New Linux Servers
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems On September 8, IBM announced a rookery (look it up!) of awesome new Linux POWER8 based servers. While the names of the new systems appear to be similar to the older versions, these are much more flexible in configurations, have...
Sleep Through Those Alarm Bells with Managed Services
Ray Lee Vice President-Managed Services and Support Mainline Information Systems When you ask customers what keeps them up at night, the answer, most likely, is the risk of a production outage. Risks such as single points of failure, limited personnel, lack of...
IBM Power Systems Ranks #1 in Major Reliability Categories
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems Information Technology Intelligence Consulting (ITIC) just recently released their latest 2016 Global Server Hardware and Server OS Reliability results. Again, IBM Power Systems consistently achieved the highest reliability rating...
Oracle Data Base Evolution and Alternatives
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems Over the past several years, Oracle has been changing both the functionality of the Oracle database (12c being the latest) and also the terms and conditions. Oracle, like many software providers, is doing heavy marketing in "cloud"...
Re-Platforming with Managed Services
Pat Sutton VP, Managed Services “Re-platforming” may loosely be defined as the periodic switching out of one IT hardware platform for another, usually in the pursuit of faster processing power, more productive and user-friendly applications, and more economical...
Opinion on IBM’s Direction of OpenSource Application Adoption
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems IBM has made several “product change of direction” announcements over the past several months. They all seem to point to the adoption of OpenSource code as the future direction for several infrastructure and solution applications....
KVM! Do I even need PowerVM Anymore??
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems My teammate, Chris Minnis, wrote a great blog entitled “KVM! Do I Even Need VMware Anymore?” and in reading it, I was inspired to write a corollary. In Power Systems, there are now two virtualization technologies available in...
IDAA and Analytics – Changing the Face of z Systems
The IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator has been dramatically changing how customers view analytics, especially with the preponderance of data already existing on z Systems. In many ways, IDAA is a disruptive technology for analytics and z Systems. Customers, in...
Linux: What’s with Docker on IBM LinuxONE?
Kurt Repholz VP zSystems Sales This year’s z/VM Workshop User’s Group Conference was held June 22nd through June 24th at Rutgers University. This venue of technical topics is excellent for the z/VM technical community to stay abreast of the latest activities on Linux...
A Journey: Getting Secure Access for Managed Services Engagement
Secure trust is important and valued, especially when your organization is employing resources from another company to handle sensitive data and modernize internal IT processes. Recently, Mainline was involved in a Mainline Managed Services (MS) engagement that...
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...