We are pleased to announce the availability of enhancements to the Galileo Performance Explorer Infrastructure Performance Management (IPM) suite. These updates provide additional reports,...

We are pleased to announce the availability of enhancements to the Galileo Performance Explorer Infrastructure Performance Management (IPM) suite. These updates provide additional reports,...
Within the world of POWER hardware, the PowerVM SEA (Shared Ethernet Adapter) has been the standard when it comes to virtualizing an ethernet adapter for quite some time. With the introduction of...
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...
While Oracle has been responsible for bringing many revolutionary features to the enterprise RDBMS market throughout its 38+ year history, recent releases have left me scratching my head in wonder....
So IBM has released details on the new mid-ranged POWER 8 system – and it’s awesome! I’ve always felt, ever since POWER8 was GA, that there was a gap between the low(er) end systems and the high-end...
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...
As IT professionals, we're always looking for ways to get the best performance out of our systems. On the systems side, much of the focus on optimizing performance is placed at the operating system...
IT business storage requirements today must adhere to a labyrinth of confusing and contradictory government- and industry-decreed regulations. Increasingly, every bit and byte of data has to be...
In the 1958 film “The Blob,” the blob begins as a small alien creature brought to earth via a meteorite, but it quickly begins consuming every human it contacts and becomes ever larger and voracious...
I think it's important to stress your hardware as much as possible. It's kind of like when you buy a new car, you always punch the gas a little bit to see what the thing can do! Likewise, with your...