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IBM Z
As cyberattacks continue to increase, the cost and reputation impacts of data breaches remain a top concern across all enterprises
Power Systems
This IBM Redbooks publication will help you install, tailor and configure an automation environment using Ansible in an IBM Power server environment.
Storage hardware
Describes the IBM Storage FlashSystem® 9500 solution, which is a next-generation IBM Storage FlashSystem control enclosure.
07 December 2024, Draft Redbooks
The IBM TS4500 Tape Library is a next-generation tape solution that offers higher storage density and better integrated management than previous solutions. This IBM Redbooks® publication gives you a close-up view of the new IBM TS4500 Tape Library. In the TS4500, IBM® delivers the density that today’s and tomorrow’s data growth requires. It has the cost-effectiveness and the manageability to ...
06 December 2024, Draft Redbooks
IT security is paramount in today's digital age. As businesses increasingly rely on technology to operate, protecting sensitive data and preventing cyberattacks becomes a top priority. Cloud adoption introduces additional security risks, including data breaches and loss of access. A strong IT security infrastructure safeguards customer information, financial data, intellectual property, and ...
06 December 2024, Redbooks
This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes the concepts, architecture, and implementation of the IBM DS8A00 family. The book provides reference information to assist readers who need to plan for, install, and configure the DS8000 G10 systems. This edition applies to DS8000 G10 systems with Licensed Machine Code (LMC) 7.10.0 (bundle version 10.0.xxx.x), referred to as Release 10.0. The DS8000 G10 ...
28 November 2024, Redbooks
In today's data-driven world, safeguarding sensitive information and ensuring uninterrupted business operations is a top priority. This IBM® Redbooks® explores how the integrated solution of IBM Storage Sentinel, IBM Storage FlashSystem, IBM Storage Copy Data Management, IBM Security® Guardium®, and IBM Security QRadar® empowers organizations to protect their valuable assets, minimize downtime, ...
25 November 2024, Redpaper
The IBM DS8000® supports encryption-capable drives. They are used with key management services (local or external) to allow encryption for data-at-rest (DAR). The use of encryption technology involves several considerations that are critical for you to understand to maintain the security and accessibility of encrypted data. This edition of this IBM Redpaper publication focuses on IBM Security® ...
22 November 2024, Redbooks
This IBM® Redbooks® publication covers IBM TS7700 R5.4 and R5.4 PGA1. The IBM TS7700 is part of a family of IBM Enterprise tape products. This book is intended for system architects and storage administrators who want to integrate their storage systems for optimal operation. Building on over 25 years of experience, the R5.4 release includes many features that enable improved performance, ...
21 November 2024, Redbooks
In today's digital age, downtime is not an option. Businesses rely on constant access to critical data to maintain productivity and ensure customer satisfaction. IBM® Storage Virtualize offers functionalities to safeguard your data against various threats. Policy-based replication and policy-based HA (policy-based-HA) protect against site failures by automatically failing over to a secondary ...
21 November 2024, Redpaper
IBM Storage FlashSystem 5300 is an all-flash storage platform designed to empower businesses of all sizes. This compact powerhouse delivers exceptional performance and scalability, making it ideal for consolidating and protecting critical data. This comprehensive IBM Redpaper explores the intricacies of IBM Storage FlashSystem 5300 port configuration, empowering IT professionals to optimize ...
20 November 2024, Redpaper
This IBM Redpaper publication is a comprehensive guide that covers the IBM Power E1050 (9043-MRX) server. The Power E1050 uses the latest IBM Power10 processor-based technology and supports IBM AIX® and Linux operating systems (OSs). The goal of this paper is to provide an analysis of the hardware architecture and highlight the changes, new technologies, and major features that are being ...
15 November 2024, Redpaper
This IBM Redpaper publication provides a broad understanding of a new architecture of the IBM Power E1080 (also known as the Power E1080) server that supports IBM AIX®, IBM i, and selected distributions of Linux operating systems. The objective of this paper is to introduce the Power E1080, the most powerful and scalable server of the IBM Power portfolio, and its offerings and relevant ...
14 November 2024, Redpaper
This IBM® Redpaper describes an IBM Data & AI solution for using IBM watsonx.data together with IBM Storage Scale. The paper showcases how IBM watsonx.data applications can benefit from the enterprise storage features and functions offered by IBM Storage Scale. IBM watsonx.data empowers enterprises to scale their analytics and AI capabilities, leveraging an open lakehouse architecture. With its ...
13 November 2024, Redbooks
This IBM® Redbooks® publication details the configuration and best practices for using the IBM Storage FlashSystem® family of storage products within a VMware environment. Topics illustrate planning, configuring, operations, and preferred practices that include integration of IBM Storage FlashSystem storage systems with the VMware vCloud suite of applications: VMware vSphere Web Client ...
13 November 2024, Redbooks
The release of Red Hat OpenShift 4.14 brought the OpenShift Container Platform Multiple-Architecture Compute feature to IBM Power. Multi-Arch Compute provides a single heterogeneous cluster, enabling fit-for-purpose computing so clients can align tasks and applications to CPU strengths and software availability rather than one architecture. This support was expanded in Red Hat OpenShift 4.15 ...
11 November 2024, Redbooks
IBM Cloud Pak for Data platform is a unified, integrated and collaborative data and artificial intelligence (AI) platform that helps organizations collect, organize, and analyze data and infuse AI within and across business process and applications. Its ultimate goal is to deliver deeper business insights that enable smarter business outcomes. IBM Cloud Pak for Data delivers a set of ...
11 November 2024, Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks® publication helps you install, tailor, and configure an automation environment by using Red Hat Ansible in an IBM Power server environment. Ansible is a versatile IT automation platform that you use to deploy and maintain your applications and systems. With Ansible, you can automate almost anything: code deployment, network configuration, server infrastructure deployment, ...
11 November 2024, Redbooks
This IBM® Redbooks® publication is volume one of five in a series of books entitled The Virtualization Cookbook for IBM Z. The series includes the following volumes: The Virtualization Cookbook for IBM z Systems® Volume 1: IBM z/VM® 7.2, SG24-8147 The Virtualization Cookbook for IBM Z Volume 2: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Servers, SG24-8303 The Virtualization Cookbook for IBM z ...
30 October 2024, Redbooks
IBM Storage Virtualize (formerly IBM Spectrum Virtualize) simplifies infrastructure management for block storage across diverse workloads, on-premises, off-premises, or in hybrid cloud environments. This core offering of the IBM Storage portfolio enables rapid deployment and streamlines management for SAN Volume Controller and IBM FlashSystem® systems, including support for hybrid multicloud ...
30 October 2024, Redbooks
This IBM® Redbooks® publication captures several best practices and describes the performance gains that can be achieved by implementing the IBM Storage FlashSystem® and IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) products running IBM Storage Virtualize 8.6. These practices are based on field experience. This book highlights configuration guidelines and best practices for the storage area network (SAN) ...
29 October 2024, Redpaper
Building on 25 years of virtual tape experience, the IBM® TS7700 (IBM TS7760 and TS7770) now can store virtual tape volumes in object storage. This IBM Redpaper publication helps you set up and configure the cloud object storage support for IBM Cloud® Object Storage or Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). The TS7700 supported offloading to physical tape for over two decades. Using a TS7700 ...
28 October 2024, Redpaper
This IBM Redpaper provides comprehensive guidance for IBM® Storage Scale™ Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) policies applicable to internal and external storage pools. External pools can be provided with extra software from IBM such as IBM Storage Archive Enterprise Edition and IBM Storage Protect for Space Management. IBM Storage Scale is a clustered and scalable file system software from ...
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