Cloud ready for Linux on System z

– Installation and configuration services guide

Find out what challenges are overcome and which benefits are rewarded to your business; when delivering a Cloud ready Linux on System z.

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• Mainframe Management
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Staying ahead of the competition

– with a Smarter Computing framework from IBM

Bankia gains innovative insights to boost competitiveness.

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• Mainframe management
• Data management
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• Management
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Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ builds a SOA

– with WebSphere Message Broker and Linux on System z

Quick launch of new financial services by leveraging existing IT assets.

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• IBM
• System z
• LMI
• Mainframe management
• Networks
• IT Director
• Public Sector
• Servers
• Storage
• Data Networking
• Applications
• Enterprise
• Hardware
• Software
• Security
• Management
• Developer

Lowering costs and cutting complexity through consolidation

– Baldor Electric case study

Consolidating on SAP, Linux, and System z

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• SAP
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• Security
• Management
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Rock-solid reliability

– with SAP Banking applications on IBM zEnterprise

Integrated solutions that offer scalable, highly available, reliable and easily managed IT infrastructures specifically for operating SAP solutions.

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• Mainframe management
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• Software
• Management
• Developer

Cloud storage: Lower cost and increase uptime

– Aberdeen Analyst report

This Aberdeen Analyst report presents results from IT experts on their cloud initiatives & benefits cloud storage users recognize upon adoption.

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• Recovery
• Backup
• Aberdeen group
• Asigra
• Cloud
• Storage

Best Practices Guide: Architecting Storage in Virtualized Environments

– An efficient, easy-to-manage storage environment

This best practices guide will show you how to lay the foundation for an efficient, easy-to-manage storage environment.

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• Nimble
• Virtual
• Storage
• Storage
• Hardware

Best Practices Guide: Risk-Free Storage for VDI

– A solid platform for VDI environments

It’s easy to underestimate the performance and capacity requirements for VDI storage, and mistakes now can lead to expensive problems later.

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• VDI
• Nimble
• Storage
• Storage
• Hardware

Managing expanding business

– Critical Linux workloads

IBM’s system z platform offers the opportunity to run Linux workloads in a cost-effective and secure environment. They explain which workloads, and which customers, might benefit from running Linux on System z, and provide the evidence you need to make the business case for your business.

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• Data management
• Mainframe
• Data centre
• LMI
• System z
• IT Director
• Servers
• Storage
• Data Networking
• Hardware
• Management

Building a service-oriented cloud architecture on IBM System z and Linux

– Case Study : The University of Bari fosters innovation in the cloud

Case study revealing how the University achieved a platform to facilitate cost-effective, flexible application development.

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• Automation
• Public Cloud
• Data Management
• IBM System Storage
• IBM System z
• IBM
• Storage
• Applications
• Enterprise
• Hardware
• Software
• Management

Comparing virtualization alternatives

– What’s best for your business?

A quantitative analysis by Solitaire Interglobal,of the business differentiators among x86, Unix, and System z virtualization technologies.

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• Virtualization
• Virtualisation
• X86
• Unix
• Mainframe
• Data centre management
• Servers
• Storage
• Data Networking
• Applications
• Enterprise
• Hardware
• Software
• Management

Enterprise Linux consolidation

– and optimization on IBM System z

Exploring why enterprises deploy Linux applications on the IBM System z mainframe.

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• Workload placement
• Data Management
• Mainframe
• System z
• IBM
• Linux
• Servers
• Storage
• Data Networking
• Hardware
• Software

Future-proofing your data center storage

– the challenges and rewards

Forrester research that identifies trends in storage and data management to inspire your business with the right tools for an efficient Data Centre.

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• Data Managament
• Big Data
• HP
• Storage Management
• Data centre
• Data center
• IT Director
• Servers
• Storage
• Data Networking
• Applications
• Enterprise
• Hardware
• Software
• Management

Embrace the new era of data center and cloud services

– trends to future proof your data

Examining trends affecting the data center while focusing on a converged cloud infrastructure.

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• Cloud
• Data centre
• Data center
• Servers
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• Software
• Management

Making the power of convergence work for you

– cost saving flexibility and innovation in the cloud

Managing the fundamental shift in IT and controlling costs in the cloud.

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• HP
• Cloud Cruiser
• Data management
• IT management
• IT Director
• Storage
• Applications
• Enterprise
• Hardware
• Software
• Management

Workload placement in a hybrid world

– It's where you put it that counts

Platform and deployment models will co-exist. So what should run where?

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• HP
• Hybrid cloud
• Application management
• Cloud Paltforms
• Data Management
• Workloads
• Deployment models
• IT Director
• Storage
• Applications
• Enterprise
• Hardware
• Software
• Management

Softcat launches managed cloud services

– and sees revenue skyrocket

How Sofcat created a new server and storage platform to support the introduction of cloud-based managed services.

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• Cloud Managed Services
• HP
• Data Management
• Storage Management
• Storage
• Hardware
• Software
• Management

Converged management

– remove boundaries between server, storage, and networking resources

New initiative that introduces the next evolution of this HP Converged Storage strategy and vision.

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• Converged Storage
• Automation
• Data management
• Storage
• Hardware
• Management

Why storage needs to evolve

– the info and graphic

HP Storage Info graphic poster.

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• HP
• Converged Storage
• Storage Management
• Data Management
• Storage
• Hardware
• Software
• Management

Maximize storage with virtual clients

– HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage

A complete approach to client virtualization to ensure success no matter how small or large the project.

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• BYOD
• HP
• Storage Management
• Converged Storage
• Small Biz
• IT Director
• Servers
• Storage
• Hardware
• Software
• Management

Cloud Evaluation Guide

How to select a hosted communications solution and partner

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• Cisco
• Cloud
• Communications
• Managed Service
• Networks

All about OpenStack

Avoiding cloud lock-in

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• OpenStack
• HP
• Nova
• Swift
• Cinder
• Glance
• Quantum
• Horizon
• API
• Applications
• Enterprise
• Hardware
• Software
• Comms
• Management

Office 365 in Context

A review of drivers, needs and practicalities

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• Freeform Dynamics
• The Register
• Microsoft
• Cloud
• Office 365
• Small Biz
• Applications
• Software
• Tech Panel

What is a DDoS attack?

Reducing the threat and mitigating the damage

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• Spam
• Dyn
• Recovery
• DoS
• DDoS
• Email
• Data Center
• Software

Converged architecture brings harmony to the data centre

Vendors sing from the same hymn sheet

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• Data centre management
• Apache CloudStack
• Citrix CloudPlatform
• Converged architecture
• NetApp
• ANS Group
• FlexPod
• IT Director
• Applications
• Enterprise
• Software
• Management