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Expect More (zing) From Your Storage . . . and Servers
There’s a whole lot of performance zing in the IBM announcements today including: IBM XIV Gen3 set a new storage efficiency benchmark with two times better disk efficiency than EMC in the ESRP...
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Performance in a Flash: New IBM XIV SSD Caching
3 ways that caching can help performance: Caching is a type of animal behavior where an animal will store food in times of surplus for times when food is less plentiful. The place where the food is...
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A Better Future — and Much Faster with IBM
Is the future always better? Sometimes it’s not so clear. Take reading. Now that everyone is reading on electronic devices, we complain about getting distracted by email and tweets. No wonder we’re not...
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Expert Integrated Systems: A Revolutionary Repast
This past weekend I needed to make dinner for 15 people. Twice. I organized my shopping into two trips, not ten. I cooked one side dish but bought another. One night I grilled, one I roasted. I set the...
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Smarter Storage, Awesome Efficiency
So I’m in the middle, once again, of planning a summer vacation. If only I had no constraints on funding — I would then take a plane any day and any time that I really wanted to. And I could leave from...
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You’ve Got Mail, Weird Mail from Oracle
This morning I received an email from Oracle. Not surprising since I signed up to get some of their communications a few years ago. What surprised me is what the email contained. First of all, the...
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IBM Cooks Up Another Awesome zEnterprise
It had cooled off a bit where I live. And a friend was back from a long sojourn in the backcountry. Which meant it was time to make something wonderful and warm for dinner. I thought about all the...
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Cloud and Data and Security, Oh My
Cloud Ready. Data Ready. Security Ready. With outstanding performance. Important themes for the Smarter Computing announcements today. The new offerings include: 1) the most powerful enterprise Power...
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A Tale of IBM Great Expectations
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . . .” Let’s look at the worst first. Last week HP announced new Itanium servers. But don’t get too excited. Were there industry standard benchmarks...
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Life in the Fast Lane
I recently wrote about a college visit — Big Data, Performance, and Coconut Smoothies might as well be titled Big Data at the Big Ten. And the ability to collect, measure, and analyze this massive...
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Why IT Infrastructure Really Really Matters
I went apple picking with the dog last weekend. The orchard was sodden with rain but the trees were heavy with beautiful fruit. I picked one, took a bite. My lab took many bites. The Melrose apple had...
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It’s My POWER8 Party, Oracle
There always has to be someone who tries to ruin the party. In this case, Oracle recently published a blog entry claiming to address the POWER8 announcement. But funny. It didn’t really address the...
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War and Peace with HP’s New Gen9
I love my book club. We vote on what books to read and we always choose interesting and enlightening fiction and non-fiction. We always serve great food and drink. And, best of all, you don’t even have...
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More Super POWER8: The Long and Short (grain) of IT
I know this may sound corny — but I was recently working on a project where I needed to find proverbs. Yes, you read that right, proverbs. Actually several proverbs to introduce several subjects. At...
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