Keith ThuerkStorage Engineer   Early in 2021, IBM started revitalizing their Open Systems Storage platform with the release of the FlashSystem 5200 (aka FS5200.) Recently, IBM further leapfrogged their competition by refreshing their mid-range and high end enterprise FlashSystem arrays. The FS7300 and FS9500 respectively. Knowing our economic times and outside influences require continually reacting and adapting to challenges and changes in the business world you should ask yourself, is your enterprise tired of going to battle over support experiences from outages due to your relic archi ..read more

Andy Hartman Senior Consultant   How to Implement and Deploy SUSE Rancher on IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE   Multi-Cloud Management platform to easily manage multiple cloud deployments either on-prem or in the cloud SUSE recently announced the upcoming release of Rancher for IBM Z and LinuxONE, with availability planned for June 1, 2022. This release makes a nice addition to the tools available to manage Kubernetes-based clusters running containerized applications on IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE platforms. Part of my role at Mainline is to evaluate System Z tools, operating systems, and open sou ..read more

J. Jeffrey Broderick – System z Architect Today’s computing environments are facing ever-increasing cyber threats with greater severity and cost than ever before. Cyberattacks by ransomware or malware are ever changing and can have significant impact on service delivery, hinder the ability to provide goods and services, impede business continuity, damage the corporate reputation, and cause severe financial loss and expense both from the attack(s) and recovery from the attack(s). Historically, IT environments initially focused solely on in-house backup, then came off-site storage, then came Di ..read more

Kurt RepholzVP zSystems Sales   On November 18th, 2021, IBM announced Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres for IBM Linux on Z and LinuxONE. This unprecedented announcement between companies that just a few years ago were competitors demonstrates the new market with IBM’s remarketing and support of Fujitsu’s Enterprise Postgres database. So, what is this agreement? IBM Technology Support Services (TSS) entered into a global partnership with Fujitsu Software Business Unit to sell IBM support for Fujitsu’s Enterprise Postgres offering. Fujitsu’s Enterprise Postgres enhances the open source PostgreSQ ..read more

Jeffrey Broderick – System z Architect  Why You Should Migrate to COBOL v6 on IBM System Z   COBOL continues to be an essential component of the infrastructure that runs today’s applications, especially on IBM System z. Critical transactional applications and systems rely on the efficiency, reliability, and continued compatibility that COBOL has brought to Information Technology. That compatibility has been both a core strength, but also a weakness for the language. We’ve grown accustomed to developing or deploying COBOL applications and letting them execute for decades with minima ..read more

Kurt RepholzVP zSystems Sales   We have all been there. Requesting replacement credit cards, changing bank accounts, buying subscriptions to monitor our financial accounts in an attempt to prevent hackers from accessing our financial data. What if you discovered that there was a way to prevent the hackers from ever getting to your data? What if it meant you could achieve data security without making changes to apps? The industry is frantically designing solutions that not only detect hackers but prevent hackers from getting to our sensitive data. IBM’s Hyper Protect Data Controller, rece ..read more

Keith ThuerkStorage Engineer   Early in 2021, IBM started revitalizing their Open Systems Storage platform with the release of the FlashSystem 5200 (aka FS5200.) Recently, IBM further leapfrogged their competition by refreshing their mid-range and high end enterprise FlashSystem arrays. The FS7300 and FS9500 respectively. Knowing our economic times and outside influences require continually reacting and adapting to challenges and changes in the business world you should ask yourself, is your enterprise tired of going to battle over support experiences from outages due to your relic archi ..read more

J. Jeffrey Broderick – System z Architect Today’s computing environments are facing ever-increasing cyber threats with greater severity and cost than ever before. Cyberattacks by ransomware or malware are ever changing and can have significant impact on service delivery, hinder the ability to provide goods and services, impede business continuity, damage the corporate reputation, and cause severe financial loss and expense both from the attack(s) and recovery from the attack(s). Historically, IT environments initially focused solely on in-house backup, then came off-site storage, then came Di ..read more

Marianne EggettIBM Z Solutions Consultant   On November 18th, 2021, IBM announced Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres for IBM Linux on Z and LinuxONE. This unprecedented announcement between companies that just a few years ago were competitors demonstrates the new market with IBM’s remarketing and support of Fujitsu’s Enterprise Postgres database. So, what is this agreement? IBM Technology Support Services (TSS) entered into a global partnership with Fujitsu Software Business Unit to sell IBM support for Fujitsu’s Enterprise Postgres offering. Fujitsu’s Enterprise Postgres enhances the open sour ..read more

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