By 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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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 [...]
By If like me you enjoy working with technology as much as encouraging others to use it, you should find IBM’s Tech Trend report interesting reading. It presents the findings of a survey conducted by IBM with over 4000 IT professionals from 93 countries and 25 industries. In summary it highlights the following technologies as being [...]
What a roller coaster of a trip Lotusphere 2012 has been. It started off last Sunday with an excellent Business Development Day for Business Partners which was highly-focused, well timed and above all – relevant – to what we as IBM Business Partners need to understand from IBM. There was a repeat of the request [...]
IBM Leadership Alliance Conference – Special Guest
By Stuart Macdonald in General on 13 September
Our very own Alan Hamilton has been invited along to IBM’s Leadership Alliance Conference in Cambridge, MA in October to participate in round table discussions to shape the development of IBM’s market leading software products. We’re all proud of some of the great work Alan has been doing recently to develop our Software Business and [...]
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We are working again with our excellent Physical Security partners King Communications on an IP CCTV and Networked Security Seminar later this month. I’ll be speaking on where the underlying infrastructure is going and some of the key benefits of the component solutions King utilise to deliver real business value for our mutual clients. ==== [...]
It has been a good year for Seric Systems and IBM when it comes to storage. Seric picked up a Netapp Partner of the Year Award for our work with the IBM Nseries and IBM have just beed announced Storage Company of the Year 2011 http://www.storage-awards.com/ against some very niche players in a very niche industry [...]