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IBM i and Linux: A Great Synergy
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems IBM i provides a highly integrated environment, of many application types on a single platform, with very good ease-of-use characteristics from a sysadmin standpoint. Running on Power Systems, IBM i applications can take advantage...
Evolution in Databases to Meet Changing Business Needs
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems Originally, there were file systems like ISAM, VSAM, and Sequential, which was after card decks went away. They were sufficient for technology and data processing (remember that old term??)… These were needs of the 60’s and 70’s. ...
AIX 5.3 Users Get a (Slight) Reprieve
Ron Gordon Director - Power Systems There still remains a significant number of customer AIX 5.3 instances running critical application. These applications have been slow to “migrate” to the latest versions of AIX, such as 6.1, 7.1 or 7.2, because of several...
LinuxONE: Value of SMT
Kurt Repholz VP zSystems Sales The LinuxONE Emperor has made a big splash since its announcement last year. In February, the Rockhopper, the smaller version of the LinuxONE server, was announced. These two boxes have changed the processing of Linux workload,...
Flash Storage Technology: Where to Start?
Bryan Samson Strategic Alliances Manager I was recently speaking with a client about flash storage technologies who said he they had met with no less than 12 different flash vendors. No less than 12! This immediately reminded me of being in a heavily traveled tourist...
IBM Power Systems Direction on Clouds and OpenSource Enablement
Ron Gordon Director of Power Systems IBM Power Systems recently announced new functionality in IBM Cloud Orchestrator, IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack, PowerVC, and the new Novalink component of PowerVM. This clearly demonstrates Power System’s direction in...
Reverse Archiving: How to Mitigate Risk and Reduce Costs From Long Term Back-Up Storage
Chris Dedham Business Continuity Specialist and Senior Storage Solutions Architect Have you ever heard the expression, “You can have cheap, fast and reliable: Pick two.” How about if you could pick all three, which is a possibility, if an organization makes an...
Protecting VMware Abstract: Using SAN storage to protect VMware
Chris Dedham Business Continuity Specialist and Senior Storage Solutions Architect When VMware was started in 1998, their deployment was primarily in the non-production environments of data centers. Now, VMware often commands 50% or more of the production...
Are you still managing storage? Start managing data instead!
Bryan Samson Strategic Alliances Manager "Which one has my car title?" I thought, as the warehouse guy and I sifted through the 4 different wooden storage vaults with everything wrapped in brown packing paper (they did the packing for me). I had moved recently,...
Why IBM is Still Relevant in Storage
Bob Elliott Vice President, Storage Solutions [email protected] No one will ever argue that IBM is one of the founding fathers of the storage industry. In 1949, they figured out how to take the information on 35,000 punch cards and store them on magnetic...
Use In-Memory Database to Remove the IO Bottleneck
Ron Gordon Director of Power Systems Many customers today have experienced significant growth in customer interaction via social, mobile or web processes. With the increase of transactions, all requiring database access for both retrieval and updating, comes...
Virtualization Options for Linux on Power
Linux on Power is a very dynamic environment.
Be aware that technology and support changes, and will be changing very quickly, normally to the better. As soon as one finally understands the characteristics of the environment and defines a plan for implementation, it may be that before you can execute your plan, capabilities may have improved to the better and limitations removed. It is recommended to always check the latest information. Take, for example, virtualization support. Several months ago, there were limitations and technology gaps…these have been updated recently, all to the better. Let’s look at virtualization of the PowerLinux environment.