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 [...]
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 [...]
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. ==== [...]
By This week the Exceptional Web Experience Conference has highlighted IBM’s push into a new territory. Back in January the message was clear – social software is here and we’re going after it. At this conference this was pushed further and further, but this time the extent of their vision has become clear, so much so [...]
Our man in Florida is Alan Hamilton at the IBM Exceptional Web Experience Conference 2011. Seric were invited to be one of IBM’s 20 key partners worldwide in this area, assisting IBM in developing and shaping the technology to come. Alan is out making Connections and extolling the virtues of employing particular technologies to help [...]
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It’s all too easy for a techie to see dashboards and graphs as a fluffy executive toy but the fact is visualisation is the key to insight for many people. All the old clichés apply a picture speaking a 1,000 words et cetera, etc. For the numerate executive the are the control panel – the [...]
Want more POWERful Oracle? A good time as curtain falls on HP and Itanium.
By Stuart Macdonald in General on 7 May
Oracle dropping their bombshell on HP and Itanium support looks like potentially more guys will be moving over to (or indeed back to) IBM Power Systems platform with their Oracle. Running Oracle on a System p is a great way to maximise your IT investment. Whether you are just ready to migrate or indeed are [...]
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In Mid April Sony discovered their Playstation Network had been hacked and a load of personal detail had been well erm ‘shared’. At that point the number of people with details exposed was reckoned to be 24M. Fast forward to early May and the breach is encompassing more than the PlayStation network at Sony with [...]
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The forecast is…..cloudy, aka “who owns your data?”
By William MacLeod in General on 16 February
Who owns your data? Being flexible for a business or IT department is a must. Being cost effective is a given. But your data is your data, please don’t just hand it over to anyone. We all think that it’s a good idea to move our data and services to a cloud based model do [...]
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