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IBM Storage Technology Shifts to Accommodate Cloud and Cognitive Demands

Clodoaldo Barrera

March 1, 2018

The IT industry is celebrated for its embrace of rapid change and disruptive breakthroughs, but storage is the outlier. If all of the disciplines of large-scale computing were invited to a party, storage would be the designated driver. After all, it’s the custodian of the handfuls of electrons and the tiny, fragile magnetic fields that […]

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IBM i 7.2 Improved Temporary Storage Tracking (Part 8)

Dawn May

February 7, 2018

Temporary storage is tracked in a set of buckets; each active job has its own bucket, and there are global buckets used for temporary storage, but not associated with a specific job.

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IT Consolidation Is Both an Art and a Science

Joseph Gulla

January 29, 2018

You might find the phrase “IT consolidation” to be cold or even unimaginative, so how can it be both an art and a science?

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Optimize Memory to Enhance Speed of CICS Functions

Jim Schesvold

December 1, 2017

This article focuses on CICS performance across all platforms. On the mainframe CICS is known as CICS Transaction Server (TS), but on other platforms it’s called TXSeries, with CICS Transaction Gateway providing standardized CICS interfaces and secure access. All products are developed and supported by CICS development, and interact with each other via facilities like […]

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5 Points to Consider When Preparing for Backup and Recovery

Caroline L. Vitse

July 17, 2017

Planning for IT outages, whether instigated by Mother Nature, human error, system issues or a sly hacker, is no small feat for businesses. While the causes of unplanned outages vary, a strategy to manage outages can be standardized. Harry Batten, executive IT architect, IBM, lists five common points companies should consider while crafting a backup […]

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IBM Researchers Use Machine Learning to Make Storage Smarter

Jim Utsler

May 1, 2017

With the goal of helping us learn more about the universe, IBM and the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON) are collaborating on the IT roadmap behind the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which will be the largest radio telescope in the world (bit.ly/2iywTpL). As part of this effort, called the DOME project, IBM developed a […]

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What to Consider When Using a Cloud or Managed Service Provider

Gene Rebeck

April 3, 2017

Workloads are getting bigger. To manage all of this information and application data, businesses have a few options: store workloads on a company-owned server, tap the storage space of a managed service provider (MSP) or go with a hybrid model that combines a private, on-premises cloud with an MSP. So, how does a business decide? […]

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Use Machine Learning to Make Storage Smarter

Jim Utsler

March 1, 2017

With the goal of helping us learn more about the universe, IBM and the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON) are collaborating on the IT roadmap behind the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which will be the largest radio telescope in the world (bit.ly/2iywTpL). As part of this effort, called the DOME project, IBM developed a […]

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Virtualization’s Past Helps Explain Its Current Importance

Bob Rogers

February 6, 2017

With VM celebrating 45 years as an IBM product, it’s a good time to look at the history of virtualization technology. Everyone seems to want to take credit for something IBM invented and brought to maturity about 50 years ago. In this two part article, we will chronical the key milestones in the development of […]

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Easily Modernize Applications to Stay Competitive

Joseph Gulla

January 9, 2017

This is the second of a two-part series on modernization of legacy systems. The specific focus of this article is application modernization tactics that don’t require a complete replacement of the application either by rewrite or replacement by a commercial off-the-shelf package. Since companies maintain an application when business needs change, doesn’t it makes sense […]

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