Hybrid multicloud: A mouthful, but the right approach
Hybrid cloud, Mainframes, Multicloud
From time to time, we invite industry thought leaders to share their opinions and insights on current technology trends to the IBM Systems IT Infrastructure blog. The opinions in these posts are their own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM. New technologies breed new buzzwords and terminology, and sometimes it can be ...read more
IBM i – The driverless variant of IT infrastructure
Big data & analytics, Modern data platforms, Power servers
I am, quite frankly, not looking forward to the advent of autonomous automobiles. I happily drive a sporty, stick-shift vehicle myself. But what does intrigue me is autonomous IT infrastructure. I keep track of developments in autonomous IT and consider it to be an early-stage trend that will not reach maturity for several more years. ...read more
Seven ways IBM PowerVC can make IT operations more nimble
AI, IBM Systems Lab Services, Power Systems
Every day, organizations face the task of managing their IBM Power Systems infrastructure and virtualization. Operations teams always have to be on their toes to keep up with the ever-increasing demands of logical partition (LPAR) deployments, decommissions, storage volume management, SAN zoning, managing standardized OS image catalogues and whatnot. But how can you manage these ...read more
What is the ROI of IBM Power Systems for SAP HANA?
Power servers, Power Systems, Workload & resource optimization
Infrastructure plays a critical role in the success of SAP HANA deployments. Organizations deploy SAP HANA applications to streamline business processes and generate real-time insights. However, exploiting these capabilities place massive scalability and availability demands on the IT infrastructure. These demands need to be met in an environment that constantly changes with the business needs. ...read more
Digital Asset Custody Services (DACS) aims to disrupt the digital assets market with a secured custody platform
Blockchain, Encryption, LinuxONE solutions
From time to time, we invite industry thought leaders to share their opinions and insights on current technology trends to the IT Infrastructure blog. The opinions in these posts are their own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM. A revolution in how consumers and businesses exchange value is underway right now. ...read more
For enterprise AI, horsepower changes everything
AI, Deep learning, Workload & resource optimization
This blog post is sponsored by IBM. The author, Peter Rutten, is a Research Director for the IDC Enterprise Infrastructure Practice, focusing on high-end, accelerated, and heterogeneous infrastructure and their use cases. Information and opinions contained in this article are his own, based on research conducted for IDC. An IDC survey that I performed in ...read more
Gender equality in STEM: Why men must pledge solidarity
Academic initiatives, IBM Systems Lab Services, Service providers
I’ve always been puzzled by occupational gender inequality. From a very young age, as I was trying to understand how the world worked, it didn’t make sense to me that we separated jobs for men and jobs for women. When we all studied together in elementary and high school, I saw just as many smart ...read more
Announcing our direction for Red Hat OpenShift for IBM Z and LinuxONE
LinuxONE solutions, Mainframes, Multicloud
In early July, IBM and Red Hat officially closed their most significant acquisition of 2019–an important milestone combining the power and flexibility of Red Hat’s open hybrid portfolio and IBM’s technology and deep industry expertise. The feedback from our clients and partners is clear. A recent IBM report found that 80 percent want solutions that ...read more
IBM Storage brings enterprise data services to containers
Cloud object storage, Flash storage, Hybrid cloud storage...
Today, 85 percent of enterprises are operating in a hybrid multicloud environment;[1] at the same time, IDC expects the worldwide installed base of container instances to reach three billion in 2021.[2] While hybrid multicloud architectures and container adoption have become common, challenges exist for these interwoven technologies. Containers are easily deployed for experimentation and new ...read more