Storage solutions
Run IBM watsonx.data on-premise, with IBM Storage Fusion HCI providing an appliance-based hosting platform, and IBM Storage Ceph providing cloud-scale object storage
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.
Residencies
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19 March 2025, Redpaper
This IBM Redpaper publication describes IBM’s new cyber resiliency solution, IBM Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS). By using DRS, users can leverage new detection mechanisms for their environment to detect threats early, and get a full view of the infrastructure by connecting primary storage arrays like IBM FlashSystem® and auxiliary storage solutions for backup, such as IBM Defender ...
19 March 2025, Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks® publication provides an overview of IBM Storage Defender Data Management Service (DMS) and IBM Storage Defender Data Protect (DP), which includes information to better understand how IBM Storage Defender protects many different workloads and integrates with IBM Storage Protect for offload and archival purposes. Configuration and usage examples are provided to further explore ...
19 March 2025, Redbooks
Data modernization refers to initiatives or processes that lead to more pertinent and precise data, as well as quicker and more effective data processing and analysis, thereby enhancing both organizational management and regulatory compliance while catering to industrial and societal requirements.. This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes how to maximize the data serving capabilities on ...
18 March 2025, Redpaper
The business world is being transformed rapidly by artificial intelligence (AI), high-performance computing (HPC), analytics, and hybrid cloud technologies. Unlike traditional applications that work with structured data that is stored in databases, these new workloads operate on a vast ocean of unstructured data, such as documents, images, videos, audio recordings, log files, or any other ...
12 March 2025, 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 ...
10 March 2025, Draft Redbooks
This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes deployment, networking, and data management tasks on the IBM Power Virtual Server by using sample scenarios. The team during the content development used available documentation, IBM Power Virtual Server environment, and additional software and hardware resources to document several types of scenarios: IBM Power Virtual Server networking and data ...
28 February 2025, Redpaper
This IBM Redpaper publication is a comprehensive guide that covers the IBM Power S1012 (9028-21B), IBM Power S1014 (9105-41B), IBM Power S1022s (9105-22B), IBM Power S1022 (9105-22A), and IBM Power S1024 (9105-42A) servers that use the latest IBM Power10 processor-based technology and support the IBM AIX®, IBM i, and Linux operating systems. The goal of this paper is to provide a hardware ...
19 February 2025, Redbooks
IT security is paramount in today's digital age. As businesses increasingly rely on technology to operate, protecting sensitive data and preventing cyberattacks is a priority. Cloud adoption introduces more security risks, which include data breaches and loss of access. A strong IT security infrastructure safeguards customer information, financial data, intellectual property, and overall business ...
19 February 2025, 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 ...
18 February 2025, Redbooks
IBM® watsonx™ is the IBM strategic AI and Data platform. This book focuses on watsonx.governance, one of the three main components of the platform. IBM watsonx.governance offers a comprehensive solution for governing data and AI workloads within a secure and scalable environment. Built on an open architecture, it empowers organizations to manage data access, compliance, and security across ...
14 February 2025, Draft Redbooks
To guard against future cyberattacks efficiently, it is important to have a simple process to predict the impact of changes made to your security definitions. Security impact forecasting can provide a streamlined workflow in which historical data is captured automatically, and an intuitive interface allows for setting up security adaptations in a way that they can be quickly analyzed for effect ...
14 February 2025, Redbooks
IBM® watsonx™ is a portfolio of AI products that accelerates the impact of generative AI in core workflows to drive productivity. This book focuses on watsonx.data, one of the three main components of the platform. IBM watsonx.data is a hybrid, open data lakehouse to power AI and analytics with all your data, anywhere. Built on an open lakehouse architecture, it is optimized for governing data ...
13 February 2025, Draft Redpaper
IBM® LinuxONE and Z platforms offer support for open systems Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) networks and subsystems, enabling their use for block storage provisioning for Linux and select z/VM® workloads. This IBM Redpaper provides a comprehensive guide to the hardware configuration and enablement of FCP for Linux environments. This document is intended for IBM Z® and LinuxONE system ...
12 February 2025, Redbooks
This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes the features and functions of the latest member of the IBM Z® platform that was built with the IBM Telum processor: the IBM z16™ (machine type 3931). It includes information about the IBM z16 processor design, I/O innovations, security features, and supported operating systems. The IBM Z platform is recognized for its security, resiliency, performance, ...
04 February 2025, Draft Redbooks
IBM Cloud's deployable architectures provide standardized patterns for deploying and managing applications and infrastructure. They accelerate deployment, enhance efficiency, and improve security and compliance when creating complex environments. These architectures offer a ready-to-use blueprint with pre-configured components and best practices, streamlining the deployment process and minimizing ...
04 February 2025, Draft Redpaper
Enterprises adopting hybrid cloud and AI technologies require a flexible infrastructure for performance, security, and interoperability. This adaptability enables organizations to remain competitive, cut costs, and better respond to customer demands. To achieve this, enterprises need platforms that allow for quick adjustments in workload management and placement, focusing on business outcomes ...
03 February 2025, Redpaper
IBM Synthetic Data Sets is a family of artificially generated, enterprise-grade datasets that enhance predictive artificial intelligence (AI) model training and large language models (LLMs) to benefit IBM Z® and IBM LinuxONE clients, ecosystems, and independent software vendors. These pre-built datasets are downloadable and packaged as comma-separated values (CSVs) and data definition language ...
31 January 2025, Redbooks
IBM® watsonx™ is IBM’s strategic AI and data platform. This book focuses on watsonx.ai, one of the three main components of the platform. IBM watsonx.ai is a next-generation enterprise studio that you can use to train, validate (test), tune, and deploy both traditional ML and new gen AI capabilities, which are powered by FMs through an open and intuitive user interface (UI). This AI studio ...
23 January 2025, 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, ...
22 January 2025, Redpaper
IBM Storage Ceph is an IBM® supported distribution of the open-source Ceph platform that provides massively scalable object, block, and file storage in a single system. IBM Storage Ceph is designed to infuse AI with enterprise resiliency, consolidate data with software simplicity, and run on multiple hardware platforms to provide flexibility and lower costs. Engineered to be self-healing and ...
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