IT Infrastructure

A Timeline of Mainframe Innovation

IBM Champion Reg Harbeck outlines the history of the IBM Z mainframe and highlights its impacts over the past six decades

The Triumphant Return of Centralized Systems

Greg Szabo on his long mainframe career and still loving what he does. (There's also a quick lesson on Canadian geography.)

Essential Factors for ERP Success in 2024

If you desire to enhance your business processes and performance, diminish your IT expenses and labor costs, and furnish real-time data and reporting capabilities, you should contemplate implementing an ERP system. These are some of the top reasons enterprises pursue ERP systems, which gather various functions and departments, such as finance, operations, and human resources, […]

Configuring Hybrid Network Virtualization for AIX

In this article, IBM’s Chris Gibson explains how to configure Hybrid Network Virtualization for an AIX partition

IBM Announces Diamondback Tape Library

Today, IBM announced its latest archival storage solution: IBM Diamondback Tape Library. An extension of IBM’s comprehensive portfolio of data resilience solutions, IBM Diamondback is designed for organizations seeking to store hundreds of petabytes (PB) of data both securely and sustainably. This cost-effective storage solution enhances sustainability with its energy-efficient infrastructure and reduced environmental impact. […]

How to Deploy a Simple Grafana Dashboard

In this step-by-step tutorial, Jesse Gorzinski explains how to deploy a Grafana backend on IBM i and connect to it from a Grafana container image

TechChannel E-book: How to Effectively Monitor and Measure Your Data Center

Running an efficient data center requires constant monitoring and measurement. This means understanding everything from storage best practices and tools for maximizing performance. Data temperature, for example, often determines the percentage of budget that gets devoted to storing different types of data. Once you create process maps based on the data’s temperature, you can better […]

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You’ve Heard the News, Now Dig Into the Details: Get up to Speed on the Power10 Announcement

IBM Champion Rob McNelly on Power10 E1080 server highlights, and resources you can use to learn more

Standing Pat Is No Longer an Option With the HMC

New POWER9 servers running new firmware won't work with your old HMC. Rob McNelly explains why, and provides some upgrade options.

Continuous Change in Systems, Networks and Applications

Joseph Gulla looks back back on some of the main ideas explored in IT Trendz in 2020.