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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
I’m going to steal Alans thunder. Here is a link that he posted in LinkedIn http://econsultancy.com/uk/blog/8697-quietly-ibm-becomes-the-enterprise-facebook?utm_medium=feeds&utm_source=blog. IBM are in Social Software for Business in a big way. Why is business concerned about social software? The key phrase in the article is, IBM is looking to put its investments in data mining and analytics to use [...]
Seric Systems allows each employee 2 days off of work a year to go and work for a charity. In the past, employees have done things like, working as a driver for cancer charities or working as a volunteer in a charity shop. This year however I would like to donate my skills, contacts and [...]
I’m going to boldly go where no one (or at least very few) have gone before. The Blackberry Bold is better than the iPhone. There, I’ve said it. Sure the iPhone looks slick, has sliding things and has a very marketing orientated company behind it but the simple fact is the Blackberry Bold is a [...]