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IBM Announces DS8000 Enterprise Storage Gen 10

by Laura Tuller | Sep 10, 2024 | Enterprise Systems

Laura Tuller Senior Systems Engineer Cyber Storage Solutions & Sustainability SW DS8000 Gen10 bolsters security, enhances connectivity, increases speed, adds compression with FCM4 technology. Prefer to watch a video? Click here Ladies and...

BLOG – Franklin Madison migrates to a cloud based middleware solution

by Farhan Hussain | Feb 5, 2023 | Hybrid Cloud

Farhan HussainVP, Hybrid Cloud Practice INDUSTRY: Financial ServicesCOMPANY SIZE: 200 EmployeesHEADQUARTERS: Franklin, TN Having separated from its parent company, Franklin Madison wanted to build a modern, cloud-based infrastructure using Amazon Web Services...

BLOG – Ramagine up to the challenge of transforming malware analysis

by Farhan Hussain | Jan 11, 2023 | DevSecOps & Automation

Farhan HussainVP, Hybrid Cloud Practice Introduction In today’s modern landscape of rapidly changing priorities, rising expectations from customers, and new market opportunities, IT leaders must discover new ways to streamline the delivery of the applications...

BLOG: IBM Ceph Storage Delivers Hybrid Cloud-Native Storage Capabilities

by Scott Buecker | Dec 28, 2022 | Hybrid Cloud

Scott BueckerStorage Engineer Product Positioning, Delivery, and Support On October 4th IBM announced that the Red Hat and IBM Storage businesses are coming together as a single group within IBM. Red Hat and IBM have been working closely for many years,...

BLOG: Healthcare System Stays in Front of Ransomware Threats with IBM QRadar SIEM

by Marie Ashway | Dec 16, 2022 | Cybersecurity & Networking

Marie Ashway Director of Marketing Power 70 Women of the Channel The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) reported a 7 percent increase in cybercrime in the US in 2021, resulting in a loss of nearly $7 billion. In 2022, top crime tactics effecting...

BLOG: Modernizing Multiple Datacenter Interconnectivity: Implementing EVPN/VXLAN as the Datacenter Interconnect in a Cisco Nexus 9K Environment

by Rob Kinney | Dec 14, 2022 | Cybersecurity & Networking

Robert Kinney Sr. Network Systems Engineer Awhile back we had a customer that needed a datacenter network refresh. Their network consisted of two datacenters, about a mile apart from each other, connected with a pair of Nexus 7010s in vPC which provided their...

BLOG: NetApp Cloud Backup DataLock and Ransomware Protection

by Seth Tollefson | Dec 12, 2022 | Cyber Storage

Seth Tollefson Solutions Architect NetApp recently introduced DataLock, a new feature that integrates with Cloud Backup and the entire NetApp ecosystem. DataLock allows on-premises snapshots to be locked and replicated to the cloud object store, making them...

BLOG: NetApp Spot Security: Continuous and Automated Cloud-Native Security

by Carlos Marques | Dec 5, 2022 | Cyber Storage

Carlos L. Marques Director of Technology After being in tech review, NetApp Spot Security is now available for production workloads in the public cloud. NetApp Spot Security is a software as a service (SaaS) offering that allows companies using cloud-native...

BLOG: What Your Company Needs to Know About NetApp Hardware Refreshes

by Len Novitski | Nov 14, 2022 | Cyber Storage

Len Novitski Storage Systems Engineer At the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023, some NetApp fabric attached storage (FAS) and all-flash FAS (AFF) systems are reaching end of service life (EOSL). EOSL means NetApp will no longer support those systems through...

BLOG: Is Red Hat Storage Dead? Long Live IBM Storage for Red Hat.

by Ian Wright | Nov 7, 2022 | Cyber Storage

BLOG: Significant Enhancements to IBM Power Systems in the IBM Cloud

by Ron Gordon | Oct 27, 2022 | Enterprise Systems

Ron Gordon Director, IBM Power Systems The use of the IBM Power Virtual Server (aka PowerVS or IBM Power Systems in the IBM Cloud) is growing daily. Power 922’s and Power 980’s with POWER9 processors, memory, and SAN storage supporting IBM i, AIX, and Linux operating...