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IBM Breaks New Ground with its Highest-Capacity Flash Storage System in a Small Form Factor; Aids Businesses on their Hybrid Cloud Journeys

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Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Computing, Technology, Computer data storage, IBM Storage, IBM FlashSystem, Cloud infrastructure, IBM SAN Volume Controller, Cloud computing, IBM Cloud, IBM, IBM software, IBM Db2

"Enterprise class data availability, massive scalability, and the flexibility to access and manage data across hybrid clouds are imperatives.

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  • "Enterprise class data availability, massive scalability, and the flexibility to access and manage data across hybrid clouds are imperatives.
  • "As the world moves more rapidly to hybrid cloud, modernized data storage is at the foundation," said Denis Kennelly, General Manager, IBM Storage.
  • When made generally available in March, the company will add support for IBM Cloud Satellite to the FlashSystem portfolio, IBM SAN Volume Controller , IBM Elastic Storage System and IBM Spectrum Scale .
  • For a walk-through of the news, attend the IBM Storage Made Simple for All webinar, Feb. 9, 2021, 9:30AM ET.

Snowflake and Saturn Cloud Announce Partnership To Bring 100x Faster Data Science to Millions of Python Users

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Thursday, January 14, 2021
Computing, Cloud infrastructure, Technology, IT infrastructure, Cloud computing, Data science, IBM Db2, IBM Db2 Family, Oracle Cloud

Therefore, pairing Snowflake with Saturn Cloud provides the best of both worlds: Snowflake optimizes sql-like operations, and Saturn Cloud scales Python-based workloads like machine learning.

Key Points: 
  • Therefore, pairing Snowflake with Saturn Cloud provides the best of both worlds: Snowflake optimizes sql-like operations, and Saturn Cloud scales Python-based workloads like machine learning.
  • Saturn Cloud is a data science and machine learning platform in Python for lightning-fast analytics.
  • Inside the Data Cloud, organizations unite their siloed data, easily discover and securely share governed data, and execute diverse analytic workloads.
  • Snowflake's platform is the engine powering solutions for data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, data science, data application development, and data sharing.

IBM Positioned as a Leader In 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems

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Wednesday, December 2, 2020
Computing, Database management systems, Cloud infrastructure, IBM Db2, Relational database management systems, Cross-platform software, IBM Db2 Family, IBM software, Db2 Database, IBM Cloud, IBM, Cloudant

ARMONK, N.Y., Dec. 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --IBM (NYSE: IBM ) announced that Gartner has positioned IBM as a Leader in its newly released 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems (DBMS).

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  • ARMONK, N.Y., Dec. 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --IBM (NYSE: IBM ) announced that Gartner has positioned IBM as a Leader in its newly released 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems (DBMS).
  • For the report, Gartner examined IBM's family of database management systems, including IBM Db2 on Cloud, IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud, IBM Cloud SQL Query, IBM Cloudant, the IBM Cloud Database family and IBM Event Streams.
  • IBM's multicloud support covers AWS, Microsoft (Azure), Google Cloud, IBM Cloud and private cloud deployment (most offerings are also available on-premises).
  • Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems, Donald Feinberg, Merv Adrian, Rick Greenwald, Adam Ronthal, Henry Cook, 23 November 2020

The Hybrid Cloud Industry Has Seen Growing Popularity Among Businesses

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Thursday, November 26, 2020
Computing, Cloud infrastructure, IT infrastructure, Cloud computing, Cloud management, IBM software, IBM Db2, IBM cloud computing, IBM Db2 Family

Hybrid cloud refers to a combination of cloud and on premises storage options and has seen growing popularity among businesses.

Key Points: 
  • Hybrid cloud refers to a combination of cloud and on premises storage options and has seen growing popularity among businesses.
  • IBM announced this week that it will buy Instana, an applications performance management startup, as part of its focus on hybrid cloud management.
  • Integrating these capabilities with IBM's technology should advance its hybrid cloud services as well as AI powered automation offerings.
  • The company also recently acquired Kumolus and SovLabs which has allowed it to gain new capabilities for managing hybrid cloud environments.

IBM to Acquire Instana as Company Continues to Advance its Hybrid Cloud and AI Strategy

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Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Computing, Information technology, Computer companies, Cloud infrastructure, Performance management, Cloud computing, IBM, Business transaction management, IBM software, IBM Db2, Dynatrace, IBM Application Performance Management

- Acquisition to help businesses use AI to better manage complexity of modern applications that span hybrid cloud landscape; Builds on IBM's industry-leading AI-powered automation capabilities

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  • - Acquisition to help businesses use AI to better manage complexity of modern applications that span hybrid cloud landscape; Builds on IBM's industry-leading AI-powered automation capabilities
    ARMONK, N.Y., Nov. 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --IBM (NYSE: IBM ) today announced a definitive agreementto acquire Instana , an application performance monitoring and observability company.
  • The acquisition will help businessesbetter manage the complexity of modern applications that span the hybrid cloud landscape.
  • Today's news further advances IBM's Hybrid Cloud and AI strategy and strengthens its AI-powered automation capabilities.
  • "Instana's observability capabilities combined with IBM's AI-powered automation capabilities across hybrid cloud environments will give clients a full view of their application performance to best optimize operations."

IBM to Acquire Instana as Company Continues to Advance its Hybrid Cloud and AI Strategy

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Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Computing, Information technology, Computer companies, Cloud infrastructure, Performance management, Cloud computing, IBM, Business transaction management, IBM software, IBM Db2, Dynatrace, IBM Application Performance Management

- Acquisition to help businesses use AI to better manage complexity of modern applications that span hybrid cloud landscape; Builds on IBM's industry-leading AI-powered automation capabilities

Key Points: 
  • - Acquisition to help businesses use AI to better manage complexity of modern applications that span hybrid cloud landscape; Builds on IBM's industry-leading AI-powered automation capabilities
    ARMONK, N.Y., Nov. 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --IBM (NYSE: IBM ) today announced a definitive agreementto acquire Instana , an application performance monitoring and observability company.
  • The acquisition will help businessesbetter manage the complexity of modern applications that span the hybrid cloud landscape.
  • Today's news further advances IBM's Hybrid Cloud and AI strategy and strengthens its AI-powered automation capabilities.
  • "Instana's observability capabilities combined with IBM's AI-powered automation capabilities across hybrid cloud environments will give clients a full view of their application performance to best optimize operations."

Astadia and LzLabs Partner to Rehost Mainframe Systems to the Cloud

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Tuesday, October 6, 2020
Networks, Internet, Data management, Technology, Software, Software maintenance, Cloud infrastructure, Mainframe computer, IBM Z, Cloud computing, System migration, Computing, Software, IBM software, IBM Db2, OpenFrame, LzLabs, Astadia

The combination of Astadia and LzLabs offers mainframe clients Rehosting, in addition to Astadias Replatforming and Refactoring solutions.

Key Points: 
  • The combination of Astadia and LzLabs offers mainframe clients Rehosting, in addition to Astadias Replatforming and Refactoring solutions.
  • Astadia now offers all solution sets required to migrate from an IBM Z platform to the Cloud.
  • LzLabs is a software company that develops innovative solutions for enterprise computing customers, including the LzLabs Software Defined Mainframe.
  • LzLabs Software Defined Mainframe enables customers to run mainframe workloads on x86 or the cloud without recompilation or data reformatting.

BMC Enhances Mainframe Resiliency and Advances Enterprise DevOps

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Thursday, October 1, 2020
Database management systems, Performance management, Databases, IBM Db2, Software, Compuware, BMC Software, IBM software, IBM Db2 Family, Db2 Database, Mainframe computer, BMC

The BMC AMI Data Management, Compuware Topaz for Total Test, and ISPW solutions include capabilities that help enterprises protect uptime and availability while intelligently managing their mainframe data and streamlining application development as part of their enterprise DevOps strategies.

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  • The BMC AMI Data Management, Compuware Topaz for Total Test, and ISPW solutions include capabilities that help enterprises protect uptime and availability while intelligently managing their mainframe data and streamlining application development as part of their enterprise DevOps strategies.
  • Improve time to recover data by up to 80% with BMC AMI Recovery for Db2, which also has integrations with BMC AMI Command Center for Db2 to ensure business resiliency and compliance.
  • BMC has successfully delivered more than 300 mainframe product releases over the last three years, and this marks Compuware's 24th consecutive quarterly release," said John McKenny, SVP of Mainframe Innovation and Strategy at BMC.
  • BMC, BMC Software, the BMC logo, and other BMC marks are the exclusive properties of BMC Software, Inc. or its affiliates and are registered or may be registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office or in other countries.

HPCnow! Helps the ALBA Synchrotron Improve Data Storage Performance With Excelero's NVMesh®

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Thursday, October 1, 2020
Technology, Mobile, Wireless, Other Technology, Telecommunications, Software, Networks, Internet, Hardware, Data management, Cybernetics, Learning, Machine learning, NVM Express, Computing, IBM Db2, Information, Cloud computing, Technology, Mobile, Wireless, Other Technology, Telecommunications, Software, Networks, Internet, Hardware, Data management, Cybernetics, Learning, Machine learning, NVM Express, Computing, IBM Db2, Information, Cloud computing, HPCNow!, ALBA Synchrotron, Excelero

Exceleros NVMesh is software-defined distributed block storage that delivers Elastic NVMe for high performance computing workloads as well as AI/ML/deep learning, data warehouses and containers.

Key Points: 
  • Exceleros NVMesh is software-defined distributed block storage that delivers Elastic NVMe for high performance computing workloads as well as AI/ML/deep learning, data warehouses and containers.
  • Customers benefit from the performance of local flash with the convenience of centralized storage while avoiding proprietary hardware lock-in and reducing the overall storage TCO.
  • NVMesh was designed as a storage layer that eradicates data bottlenecks so teams can access data at any speed in any location.
  • NVMesh delivers 20x faster data processing for multi-server, multi-GPU compute nodes when working with massive datasets for machine learning, deep learning and complex analytical workloads.

Infotel Corp. U.S.A. Announces 'Preparing Enterprise IT for the Next 50 Years of Mainframe' Webinar in Conjunction with IBM Systems Magazine

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Wednesday, June 10, 2020
Database management systems, Computer architecture, Operating systems, IBM Db2, AS/400, IBM software, Db2, IBM Db2 Family, IBM Power Systems, IBM i, IBM Z, IBM AIX

In this webinar, Infotel will discuss embracing Agile and DevOps methodologies and leveraging automation for faster application production.

Key Points: 
  • In this webinar, Infotel will discuss embracing Agile and DevOps methodologies and leveraging automation for faster application production.
  • IBM Systems magazine and Infotel Corp. webinar details:
    -Speakers: Craig Mullins, Mullins Consulting Db2 expert and Colin Oakhill, Infotel senior management consultant
    On behalf of IBM, MSP TechMedia publishes two magazinesIBM Systems magazine, Power Systems edition, and IBM Systems magazine, IBM Z.
  • The monthly Power Systems edition reaches approximately 50,000 readers who own or work on Power Systems servers running IBM i, AIX and Linux.
  • For more than 40 years, Infotel has delivered proven solutions to help clients improve their data management systems.