3 critical responsibilities of digital asset custodians
Blockchain, Insights, LinuxONE solutions
Blockchain technology is moving beyond experimentations and use in payments. Recent advances in cryptographic, security and distributed ledger techniques have opened the door to widespread use. ...read more
Enhance business agility with new cloud-enabling solutions on IBM Z
LinuxONE solutions, Mainframes, News
Today’s business leaders are facing more challenges than ever imagined, racing to deliver services to their clients beyond what they could have expected even a few months ago. To meet those expectations, IT organizations need to accelerate their journey to cloud for mission-critical workloads. IBM Z® continues to play a key role in running the businesses ...read more
How Red Hat OpenShift can support your hybrid multicloud environment
Multicloud, Power Systems, Technical
We know that enterprises have moved, or are moving, their workloads to the cloud. It’s rare, however, that a company wants to move all of its applications to the cloud — and even rarer that it would choose a single cloud provider to host those applications. The most common strategy is a mixture of on-premises ...read more
The right IT infrastructure is hybrid
Hybrid cloud, Insights, Multicloud
From time to time, we invite industry thought leaders to share their opinions and insights on current technology trends on the IBM Systems IT Infrastructure blog. The opinions in these posts are their own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM. Gartner forecasts worldwide public cloud revenue will grow 17 percent in 2020[1]. ...read more
The hot storage trends for 2020
Multicloud, News, Storage
Now that 2019 has ended, we anticipate incredible storage advancements to come in 2020. Storage is the essential foundation for all your application, workloads, and data sets. If your storage is not reliable, resilient, performant, and flexible, the value of your most critical business asset–your data–decreases dramatically. Read on to see what is coming your ...read more
A tale of two security models
Data security, Encryption, Technical
The approach of security as a choice In your journey to cloud, there are many approaches to securing your workloads. One approach is very common across a variety of cloud vendors: You choose how yours is secured. In a world where a breach of personal information can cost your enterprise millions of dollars in fines ...read more
Designing an efficient SAP HANA on Power Systems landscape
IBM Systems Lab Services, Power servers, Power Systems
Most workloads in data centers today are virtualized to drive up system utilization. This results in several benefits for your business: fewer systems needed, a decrease in network/SAN ports, reduced floor space, power and cooling, and most importantly reduced costs for IT management. With SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems, you can have more flexibility ...read more
IBM z15 – The cloud you want with the privacy and security you need
Cloud computing, Encryption, Mainframes
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. I had the pleasure of attending the recent launch of the brand ...read more
Setting the stage for your journey to hybrid multicloud; a basic vocabulary
Hybrid cloud, Multicloud, Storage
There is a rapid industry transition under way to a hybrid multicloud style of computing. It’s happening across all industries and all lines of business and being pushed along by stakeholders from IT managers to the C-suite to the shareholders. Although the transition is touching every area of IT infrastructure, in this 6-part series we ...read more