by Mainline Marketing | 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 Mainline Marketing | 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 Mainline Marketing | 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...
by Mainline Marketing | Apr 20, 2016 | Enterprise Systems
Ron Gordon Director – Power Systems I have received several questions on the various Linux implementation options for Power Systems. The implementation options basically involve installation of a bare metal system, a PowerKVM virtualized system, and PowerVM...
by Mainline Marketing | Mar 31, 2016 | Enterprise Systems
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...