Bradley Knapp

Cloud April 22, 2021

The Benefits of Running High IO Applications on IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers with NVMe Storage

3 min read - What role do bare metal cloud servers play in the world of cloud infrastructure? Over the past several years, it’s impossible to not notice the trend in migrations from on-premises bare metal servers (often virtualized with solutions like VMware) to…

Cloud January 16, 2020

VIDEO – IaaS Explained

7 min read - Infrastructure as a Service, or IaaS, is a type of cloud service that provides users an instant computing infrastructure that can be provisioned and managed over the internet. In this video, I’m going to explain how IaaS delivers fundamental compute, network, and…

Cloud January 13, 2020

VIDEO – Persistent Memory Explained

6 min read - Persistent memory is a new technology that provides ultra-fast memory, and in this video, I’m going to explain how it works and relates to other storage options. Using the idea of a “storage pyramid,” I’ll explain the relationship between cost and…

July 17, 2018

Intel Skylake Bare Metal Servers Certified to Support SAP HANA Workloads

2 min read - You asked, we delivered We’re always listening to our customer’s needs, and we hear that there is a need for server flexibility to fit various workloads. Let’s take a quick look back. When we launched our first SAP HANA-certified servers in January 2017, customers were excited…

July 10, 2018

How to Run SAP Workloads in the Cloud on a Budget

2 min read - How to Run SAP Workloads in the Cloud on a Budget Moving your SAP applications to the cloud can improve your company’s agility, speedup time-to-market, increase competitiveness, and allow you to better serve your lines of business. But you already knew…