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IBM i Power Champion Mats Lidström on Sweden Going Cashless and How Technology Plays a Big Role

Charlie Guarino: Hi everybody. This is Charlie Guarino. Welcome to another edition of TechTalk SMB and this month's podcast I'm very happy to be joined by Mats Lidström. Mats Lidström is the CPO and IBM i chief architect at Apper Systems AB located in Sweden. Mats has a very impressive and long history using IBM i […]

IBM Champion Rob McNelly on the New AIX 7.3 Announcement

AIX 7.3 was announced on October 19, 2021. Get the details from Rob McNelly in this video.

How to Check NPIV Virtual Fibre Channel Adapter Mapping on AIX

AIX/Power System administrators can now use an alternative to kdb for viewing VIOS "identifying info" from client AIX LPARs. Learn more from Chris Gibson here.

AIX 7.3 Leverages Power10 Processor to Support Customers’ Hybrid Multicloud and AI Endeavors

The new AIX 7.3 release brings customers new ways to integrate their mission critical infrastructure with new and enhanced capabilities. IBM designed AIX 7.3 in response to feedback from customers, particularly around extracting business value from data and supporting their hybrid multicloud strategies. Its new features take advantage of the unique capabilities of the Power10 […]

A New AIX Video Series and the Latest on AIX Open Beta and Power10

IBM Champion Rob McNelly on his new TechChannel AIX video series, and the latest news on Power10 and AIX open beta

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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Protecting Data Within New HA/DR Parameters

There are two types of organizations in the world: those that have experienced unplanned system downtime and those that will. Of the first group, many have likely tightened up their high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) methods and tools as a result of their incidents, moving, for example, to hosted cloud-based HA/DR services. Within the […]

The Cost of Enterprise Downtime

Enterprise downtime is now more expensive than ever: Some 44% of firms indicate that hourly downtime costs exceed $1 million to over $5 million, exclusive of any legal fees, fines or penalties. Additionally, 91% organizations said a single hour of downtime that takes mission-critical server hardware and applications offline, averages over $300,000 due to lost […]

The Importance of Cloud-Based HA/DR Technology

For many organizations, budgeting discussions for disaster recovery (DR) and high availability (HA) have played out in a similar manner for decades: The IT department asks to spend a set amount for capital expenditures and a set amount for operating expenses. However, the infrastructure needed to back up the data center and networks in case […]

Using Power10’s Superfast AI With Event Streaming

IBM Power10 comes with built-in acceleration for AI by integrating MMA units right into the chip. Jesse Gorzinski explains how to use Power10's AI with event streaming here.