by Ron Gordon | Sep 8, 2016 | Enterprise Systems
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,...
by Ron Gordon | Aug 23, 2016 | Enterprise Systems
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...
by Ron Gordon | Aug 16, 2016 | Enterprise Systems
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...
by Ron Gordon | Jul 26, 2016 | Enterprise Systems
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...
by Ron Gordon | Jul 19, 2016 | Enterprise Systems
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...
by Mainline Marketing | Jul 8, 2016 | Enterprise 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...