Integrated infrastructure
Explore the latest storage innovation at Think 2019
From healthcare to financial services, organizations across all industries recognize the importance of leveraging data for competitive advantage. But for many organizations, managing vital data resources can present significant storage challenges. First and foremost, organizations need to accommodate rapidly rising volumes of many types of data. They also need to boost storage performance so they […]
A Holiday Gift Guide for the Sysadmin
1. The “Pause” button from Black Mirror, so they can stop their boss mid-sentence as he’s complaining about the way they‘ve organized all the cables. 2. Screen polarizer so their boss can’t see when they’re really just playing Fortnite. 3. A “Do Not Disturb“ sign that auto-generates when someone walks by their desk. 4. An […]
IBM continuous Storage leadership
For the sixth consecutive year, IBM has been named a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for General-purpose Disk Arrays report for 2018. According to Gartner ”Vendors in the Leaders quadrant have the highest composite scores for their Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. A vendor in the Leaders quadrant has the market share, credibility, […]
Sophisticated and comprehensive data and storage management
The cost of managing storage infrastructure can be a major component of the total lifetime cost of storage.[1] This is one of the primary reasons companies often have only 50 percent storage utilization rates[2], since it can be easier to throw more capacity at a storage problem than it is to troubleshoot and fix issues […]
Is your business equipped for the speed of change?
According to the IDC, the amount of data stored worldwide is doubling every two years. The sheer scale of the data is accelerating the speed of business. Put this up against the backdrop of ever-increasing challenges regarding security. Businesses that recognize the real value of data and equip themselves with innovative solutions and essential skills […]
IBM FlashSystem 9100 – The core of the data-driven multi-cloud enterprise
IBM believes that today there is only one kind of successful enterprise – the data-driven multi-cloud organization.[1] We can see the needs of data-driven businesses reflected in some of the most powerful trends currently driving enterprise data storage: Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe), artificial intelligence, multi-cloud, containers and more.[2] The question becomes: “Is there a storage […]
Powering business at the speed of life
Mark Peters, Practice Director and Senior Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) observes: “Time and again our market research reminds us that it’s the needs of overall business, more than any other factors, that drive the choice and adoption of IT technologies. And, whatever those overall needs, what’s equally clear is that right now businesses […]
IBM Spectrum Access Blueprint for IBM Cloud Private
A few months ago, IBM introduced a new blueprint concept called IBM Spectrum Access Blueprint for IBM Cloud Private. Think of it as a recipe for deploying your own private cloud environment. To refresh your memory, IBM introduced this innovative and revolutionary platform as a service (PaaS) delivering IBM applications and middleware for modernizing traditional […]
The fastest storage for the fastest system: Summit
This week in Frankfurt, Summit was crowned the “Fastest System in the World” in the biannual Top500 survey. The ORNL system is the most powerful, with over 200 petaflops of NVIDIA and IBM Power Systems compute, but it is much more. This is no ordinary system. It is purpose-built to use GPUs and excel on […]