by Kurt Repholz | Jun 30, 2016 | Enterprise Systems
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...
by Ron Gordon | May 28, 2016 | Enterprise Systems
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...
by Ron Gordon | May 25, 2016 | Enterprise Systems
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...
by Ron Gordon | May 20, 2016 | Enterprise Systems
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,...
by Ron Gordon | May 19, 2016 | Enterprise Systems
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...
by Mainline Marketing | Apr 22, 2016 | Enterprise Systems
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...
