By Seric Systems are delighted to have been able to support the Toryglen community hall, who contacted us through our appeal to charities. The Toryglen community hall has been going since 1989 and offers a great set of services to the local community. Having spent some time there I know that, unlike some community centres, there [...]
Yeah, we are an IBM house, so sure we are going to say that IBM is pure magic but the following link shows a really good independent look into DB2 Purescale vs Oracle Exadata. The really interesting summary is at 14:45 where Bloor Research said they were expecting a list of positives and negatives for [...]
You may of heard of the new IBM PureFlex Systems. You may of trawled through the website, trying to get passed all the buzz words, the marketing, the jargon and try and find out what exactly is it. If you have, I’m sure you probably didn’t have much joy because although IBM can make awesome [...]
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The latest range of IBM mobile devices, truely do work anywhere! In our stringent test the IBM mobile devices (water bottle and back pack) continued to work even under the hardest of conditions and continued to work perfectly all day and didn’t require recharging (unlike the tester!)
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Wired have a great article on the British Army’s use of social media, including what it’s got right and what it’s got wrong http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-03/20/military-social-media but perhaps the most surprising revelation is that they are using it for a variety of purposes including Recruitment Community building for friends and family’s of service men and woman Hearts [...]
By Seric have been highlighted in a recent report as one of the Top 100 businesses funded by PSYBT since it’s inception. The report was funded by RBS and independently verified. At a reception in the Scottish Parliament a number of the businesses in the report met with MSPs and RBS staff to highlight the impact [...]
Previously I’ve written about how to use the Storwize v7000 and EasyTier to get performance benefits for your SAP environment. For ultimate performance however you want everything to run in memory, as RAM runs 1000 times faster than even SSD. SAP HANA is all about running in memory. What is the point of all this [...]
Have you heard of the IBM v700 Storwize product? It’s IBMs virtualised storage device and it has some great bells and whistles on it. In my mind the greatest is EasyTier which is a technology that uses SSD disk as a sort of cache. Hot blocks of data are automaticaly pulled up off of SAS [...]
Enabling application installation in Lotus Notes
By AlanHamilton in General on 26 January
This is something I constantly have to search for when I am installing a Lotus Notes client and want to install something like the IBM Connections Status Updates sidebar plugin. To be able to install new features into Eclipse (Lotus Notes client) it is necessary to edit the plugin_customization.ini file which is buried in the [...]
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IBM Docs part 2 – Social Spreadsheets and Presentations
By AlanHamilton in General on 26 January
Following on from yesterday’s blog entry about Social Documents in IBM Docs I wanted to finish my little series with a look at the other parts – Spreadsheets and Presentations. Spreadsheets Spreadsheets are the staple of most businesses but I am sure 95% of us use only the very basic elements of a spreadsheet – [...]
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