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The three C’s of enterprise security for bolstering defenses
If you’ve picked up a newspaper or visited a news site in the past few weeks, it will come as no surprise: the number, variety and complexity of enterprise security threats all continue to increase in the modern digital age. In addition to a constant stream of malicious outside threats, enterprises also need to contend […]
Cloud computing
Power Systems: the open innovation platform
CEOs know that business technology is in a state of perpetual motion, and trendsetting innovation is often a collaborative effort that will engage multiple business partners. Achieving digital transformation success in today’s hypercompetitive environment also requires an open ecosystem — one that includes flexible capabilities that adapt to specific IT needs. CIOs and CTOs crave […]
Build with collaborative innovation
A powerful cognitive and deep learning tool
From time to time, we invite industry thought leaders to share their opinions and insights on current technology trends to the In The Making blog. The opinions in these blogs are their own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM. Getting the right tool for the job is essential for anything from home […]
Partner ecosystems with Cisco and IBM
This week, Cisco launched Cisco Intersight, a new intelligent, cloud-based management and analytics platform for Cisco UCS and HyperFlex systems. It will provide substantial operational advantages for IBM and Cisco’s VersaStack solutions that utilize Cisco UCS infrastructure. The new UCS management platform demonstrates how innovation benefits both customers and partnerships. IBM and Cisco have maintained […]
Software development discipline reshapes infrastructure
Infrastructure as code Software engineering has delivered goodness that the world relies on every day. Gone are the days of software that crashes frequently. Software is now reliable, and changes made to software are seldom disruptive. Software vendors quickly adapt to new features in operating systems and hardware. This is due to a confluence of […]
Why data protection for VMs is vital to your business
This is part two of a guest blog post series about the challenges of data protection in a VM-intensive computing environment. In my previous post, I discussed the importance of making data protection easier for a wide group of personnel responsible for working with virtual machines (VMs) and the associated data. In this post, I […]
Five important considerations for HPC deployments
Architecting superior high-performance computing (HPC) clusters requires a holistic approach that responds to performance at every level of the deployment. HPC workloads put massive computational demands on your infrastructure: they involve analyzing huge data sets to solve complex problems, and that means they require supercomputing capabilities. In short, there are many facets to the HPC […]
Artificial intelligence is coming: Are you ready? (Part 2)
In part 1 of this blog series, I set the stage with how artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed in recent years and outlined an approach to build an AI strategy. Now, let’s look at data transformation, training techniques and subsequent steps in the AI journey. Data transformation and training techniques for your AI strategy Here […]
Expanding data protection to meet the challenges of VM growth
This is part one of a two-part guest blog series on addressing the data protection challenges of working and operating in a virtual machine (VM)-intensive computing environment. Part I focuses on the ways in which automation and ease-of-use bring data protection functionality to a wider group of users. VM admins, DevOps personnel, backup and storage […]
Breakthrough security for next-generation applications
Over 15 years ago, IBM committed to Linux and open source software on the mainframe in a way that stunned the industry. Today, our commitment to Linux has never been stronger, and we are focused on a clear mission: to provide to clients the most secure and the most advanced data-serving Linux platform in the […]
Data insights are critical to making customers happy
People don’t often associate flash storage with mobile devices, but you should. In today’s connected economy, it’s not unlikely that you have multiple devices online at all times. Finland leads the world in internet connections and mobile devices per capita, and there are already more mobile subscriptions than there are people living in the country. […]
Effective Oracle Database tuning
Many years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and graphical installers were the exception rather than the norm, I learned my first lessons in trying to resolve database performance problems. These lessons mostly revolved around learning how to check various metrics in the database to get a health check. Measurements such as the database cache-hit […]