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The 12th annual Red Hat Summit will take place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco from June 28 - July 1, 2016. Red Hat Summit is a premier open source technology event, bringing together thousands of customers, partners, and open source industry leaders from around the world for a high-energy week of innovation, education, and collaboration.
Posted December 16, 2015
The OpenPOWER Foundation, an open development community dedicated to accelerating data center innovation by taking advantage of open interfaces, reference designs, and collaboration opportunities on the POWER processor architecture, has announced its 2016 OpenPOWER Summit: Revolutionizing the Datacenter.
Posted December 16, 2015
Clients tell how they simplify, innovate and compete with the enterprise-grade platform for Linux.
Posted December 16, 2015
A major utility organization needed to expand its services to new regions in its domestic market while enhancing customer services. To achieve these goals, the company wanted to ensure that it could onboard and manage new suppliers and customers without impacting service quality.
Posted December 16, 2015
Sparda-Datenverarbeitung eG (SDV), the IT service provider for the Sparda-Bank Group in Germany, develops secure and innovative IT solutions for retail banking, payment, distribution and financing to improve the products and services of Sparda-Bank Group.
Posted December 16, 2015
A new video demonstrates how the combined power of Linux, IBM z Systems, the hybrid cloud, and IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack enhance the benefits of each part to provide the most powerful and reliable enterprise solution.
Posted December 16, 2015
Juju certainly isn't the world's best kept secret on quickly-and-easily modeling and bringing services to the Cloud, but what may be a more closely kept secret is that because IBM POWER8 supports Ubuntu, the power of POWER, coupled with the magic of Charms, brings open source cloud services modeling and orchestration to the world's premier open server platform!
Posted December 16, 2015
This blog provides a terrific developer resource focused on topics on container technology and its use in Linux on the mainframe. Go here.
Posted December 16, 2015
Three months ago, IBM announced a major investment in Apache Spark, committing thousands of researchers to the future development of what has been called the most important open source project in a decade being defined by data.
Posted December 16, 2015
In a world awash in data, the way that companies engage with their customers has forever changed. Where companies used to rely on telephone customer service centers and antique suggestion boxes, they are now inundated with data of all kinds, from multiple sources and devices, requiring different responses.
Posted December 16, 2015
Earlier this year, SAP and IBM announced that SAP Business Warehouse deployments on SAP HANA could be integrated with IBM Power Systems, achieving a level of flexibility, resiliency and performance that customers tell us is unique in the industry.
Posted December 16, 2015
IBM now has three strategic virtualization platforms: IBM z/VM, IBM PR/SM, and KVM for IBM z Systems. KVM for IBM z delivers server virtualization based on open source KVM Linux technology. KVM for IBM z virtualization technology enables you to share real compute, memory, and I/O resources through server virtualization.
Posted December 16, 2015
In today's hyper-connected world, it is no longer enough to have a digital presence like a mobile channel or e-commerce site. The extra mile to strive for is interactive engagement at a cognitive level through bi-directional communication and always-on-services.
Posted December 16, 2015
Data will be the basis for competitive advantage for many organizations. IBM z Systems has stood the test of time, helping many organizations achieve a digital transformation using their IT infrastructure as the cornerstone.
Posted December 16, 2015
Federal agencies have a mandate to provide a highly available and secure I/T infrastructure to provide services in an increasingly mobile environment. Challenges that agencies face today include architectural complexity, network latency, reduced availability, and steep software costs that outweigh the advantages of a scale out architecture.
Posted December 16, 2015
In 2015, big data, mobility, IoT, expanding requirements for security and real-time analytics and the introduction of the Cognitive Era continued to place greater pressure on IT organizations. Linux and open source technologies are at the center of many of the most innovative software and hardware solutions that are addressing emerging enterprise requirements. Here's a look back at some of the most significant announcements in Linux and open source technology of 2015.
Posted December 16, 2015
A new data sheet summarizes the value of deploying the PeopleSoft Enterprise applications on the IBM Mainframe running Oracle Database. An architectural diagram is included.
Posted December 16, 2015
IBM Spectrum Scale, based on IBM GPFS technology, is a high performance shared-disk file management solution that provides fast, reliable access to data from multiple nodes in a cluster environment.
Posted December 16, 2015
IBM has announced the XL C/C++ Linux on z Systems V1.2. The update delivers significant execution performance improvement over GCC with advanced optimization technology, enabling users to exploit z/Architectures (z10, z196, zEC12, z13) and increase overall platform competitiveness.
Posted December 16, 2015
LSU has collaborated with IBM to deploy a powerful supercomputer named Delta to advance big data research in Louisiana. The name references both the Mississippi delta region and the use of the term in the sciences to mean "change."
Posted December 16, 2015
The history between SUSE and the IBM mainframe goes back more than 15 years, observed Michael Miller, SUSE's Vice President of Global Alliances, Marketing and Product Management, and Ross Mauri, General Manager, IBM z Systems, during a keynote conversation at SUSECon 2015.
Posted December 16, 2015
The Linux Foundation has posted the dates and locations for all upcoming Linux Foundation and Managed Events in 2016.
Posted December 16, 2015
IBM LinuxONE is a portfolio of hardware, software and services solutions for an enterprise grade Linux environment. IBM LinuxONE brings together the flexibility and agility of the open revolution with the industry's most advanced, trusted and performance enterprise system.
Posted December 16, 2015
The IBM LinuxONE channel is expanding to meet global demands and address the increasing growth and requirements of Linux in the market. IBM Business Partners that are looking to add LinuxONE to their sales portfolio can get started today.
Posted December 16, 2015
Mizuho Bank, Ltd. needed to transform its online and mobile banking systems while decreasing IT costs. With the help of IBM, Mizuho updated online and mobile applications, keeping user satisfaction high and expanding its online presence by gaining scalability and sustainability while reducing overall costs.
Posted December 16, 2015
Seismic data processor Earth Signal has deployed IBM Power Systems S822L servers with IBM POWER8 CPUs running Linux to maximize core- and thread-count within the physical limits of its data center, enabling extremely fast delivery of seismic results to industry clients and 20 times greater server density.
Posted December 16, 2015