Four years ago researchers at Harvard University were able to successfully store 700 terabytes of data in a gram of DNA. It wasn’t the first time that DNA was successfully used to store data but it was the first time that a very large volume of data was stored successfully. The work done at Harvard’s…
Out growing your IBM Power system internal disk? Expansion drawer or Bigger Drives?
Anyone who has worked with IBM i knows how important disk I/O is to system performance. You can throw a 60,000 CPW, IBM Power System running IBM i, flat on its back if it’s not given the disk resources it needs to read and write at a pace greater then what the user demands. The…
Social Media and Business, the Business of Insight
I’ve been thinking a lot about social media and the use of the massive amounts of data that it represents. I’ve had reason to think about it lately because we’re in that business. I sometimes find the universe of what I call social data too large to comprehend. The term used in the industry is…
What you need to know… Licensing IBM RDi (Rational Developer for i) RPG & COBOL Tools
As I grow my knowledge and become more intimately involved in the hardware and software that make up the IBM i portfolio, I have become aware of the complexity in some of IBM’s offerings. Many of my customers come to me because they know I will track down the right product to meet the needs…
Can Your Business Survive a Disaster?
Here at Arbor Solutions, we’re in the middle of several High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) implementations for several clients, each one different from the rest. They include full HA and DR replication hot sites as well as hosted solutions. So, when a local event happened here the other day, it caused me to…