Many of us hate our backup environments. That's because backups kind of suck, even with a backup product as great as IBM Spectrum Protect. As I said in another post, it's the thing that everyone...
Backups Suck (But They Don’t Have to)
Focus on what matters with instant visibility into the condition of your backup application and detailed analytics to quickly pinpoint where any issues lie. IBM’s backup monster, Spectrum Protect...
Infrastructure Readiness in a Work-From-Home World
A Video Chat With The Galileo Team The impact of COVID-19 on our world is enormous. It's affected every aspect of our lives, including our day-to-day work lives. Those of us that are fortunate...
Key features to look for in capacity planning tools
Let’s take a closer examination of capacity planning and the types of features you should look for when selecting a tool for your enterprise.
How to Best Support AI Deployments with Proactive Infrastructure Monitoring
Although artificial intelligence solutions have been around for several years, these impactful systems are finally making their way into organizations, enabling companies to streamline workflows and...
Customer service: Why ongoing support is essential to an optimal experience
It’s not just about making a good first impression – organizations must be able to provide its customers with ongoing support throughout their journey and lifecycle with the brand.
9 Attributes of a Secure Cloud-Based IT Infrastructure Monitoring Tool
Given that compromised data can lead to the downfall of a business, it’s not surprising that IT leaders are concerned about the security of cloud-based infrastructure performance monitoring tools. The cloud, however, provides the advantage of giving you a holistic view of a hybrid environment. So find out how to vet cloud vendors to ensure they offer a secure service that protects you from data breaches, network intrusions, and denials of service. Read more »
Implementing Spectrum Scale Solutions
IBM Spectrum Scale (formerly known as General Parallel File System – GPFS) is a highly scalable, flexible, reliable, and high performance clustered file system. While many clustered file systems...
Why is Infrastructure Performance Management Such a Challenge?
It’s the question of the ages. Or at least the question since IT data centers came into being. Goodness knows, there are a boat load of platform tools available – and there is a ton of data. Yet,...
How a Company Leveraged IT Investments – Not Staff Additions – to Grow Revenue
How many times have you heard business executives say something along the lines of “IT investments are an overhead, while an investment in sales goes directly to the bottom line?” If you have, I...
The Advantages of IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) vs. HDFS for Big Data
IBM’s Spectrum Scale! Have you not heard of it yet? Spectrum Scale is IBM’s GPFS file system widely used for large scale enterprise clustered file systems that need to scale up to petabytes of...
Tiering Up: The Data Storage Balancing Act for Businesses
When most people think of computing data storage, they think in terms of USB thumb drives, recordable CDs and DVDs and, of course, cloud storage solutions. Such storage options work very well when...